Centretown News

Located in a valley tucked between Parliament Hill and the Chateau Laurier hotel, the Bytown Museum looks out onto the Ottawa River from the first lock of the Rideau Canal.

The building currently known as Barrymore’s originally opened in 1914 as the Imperial Theatre. Located at 323 Bank St., between MacLaren and Gilmour streets, the theatre lasted for nearly four decades as one of the city’s premier movie theatres, featuring a balcony seating more than 200 people and box seats for another 100 patrons.

With a prolonged history and fascinating design, the Bank of Canada building stands as one of Ottawa’s most distinctive and architecturally noteworthy structures.

Located west of downtown in the LeBreton Flats area, near the Canadian War Museum, the Fleet Street Pumping Station was the first building to pump drinking water into the city of Ottawa. Before its construction in 1874, residents of the city received their water from individual wells or from carriers who delivered door-to-door