Archive 1997-2016
At first glance, the Canadian Museum of Nature seems a little out of place. Housed in the grandiose, a castle-like Victoria Memorial Museum building on McLeod Street, the building would seem better suited to the rolling hills of medieval Europe than the middle of a bustling Ottawa neigbourhood where it currently sits.
From a distance, the McNabb Community Centre looks more like a public school than a multi-use facility. Sitting comfortably in a quaint residential area, the rectangular brick building faces Percy Street, a quiet one-way, instead of looking towards the bustling traffic on Bronson and Gladstone avenues.
Established in 1910, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church began with 66 members, a small number compared with its present membership of 500.
Located in the Centretown Heritage Conservation District the historic Laurentian Club, located at 252 Metcalfe St., was commissioned by lumber baron John R. Booth and built in 1909. It was designated a National Historic Site by the Canadian government in 1990.