First Known Photo (Singular) of Ottawa
To accompany my current article for Apartment613, titled "First Known PhotoS of Ottawa," I'm posting the first known photo (singular) of Ottawa here.
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“View of the Rideau Canal looking East towards the Albion Hotel, Courthouse and Dickinson Warehouse, c.1857.” (Photo kindly provided by Bytown Museum – edited for clarity by Ashley Newall.) |
To get your bearings, centre-left in the above photo is the original (grey) Courthouse, which stood where Arts Court now stands (on the SE corner of Nicholas St. & Daly Ave.)
You can read my current apt613 article "First Known PhotoS of Ottawa," chronicling the first known photo set featuring Ottawa, here: First Known Photos of Ottawa, 1859-60