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The Ottawa city directory 1921 = L'annuaire des adresses d'Ottawa 1921, 1921
20 lines. Read by computer on 18 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1:: OTTAWA OF TO-DAY ::
3The story of the growth of the Canadian Capital of today from a frontier lumber village of a century ago is one of the romances of the continent. It is a stirring story of life, of action, of development; it is one that holds promises of a vast future. There is in the tale of the growth and development of Ottawa an epitome of the life story of the Canadian people.
5It was only ninety three years ago when, on the arrival of Col. By, of the Royal Engineers, to construct the Rideau Canal that the frontier hamlet began to have a history. Before that, apart from the few pioneers that settled in the district, there was scarcely more to the settlement than the history of the individual families that composed it. Since that time, almost in the span of a single life the great city of today has spread over the country side and from its ten square miles of buildings radiates industrial and commercial development to all the counties of Eastern Ontario.
7Today Ottawa stands but on the threshold of a vast development. No National Capital in the world has such natural advantages as Ottawa. And few cities are surrounded by a countryside containing more natural wealth in the way of timber, mines, water power and rich agricultural land. The promise of these for the future is of a great and prosperous city, with all the beauty and dignity of old world cities and all the wealth and power of the cities of the new world.
9The population of Ottawa to-day is
11143,402
13inhabitants, and each year, with a steady growth that no world condition has ever interrupted the number increases. The city at present covers 529½ acres or close to ten square miles. However its well grown suburbs includes perhaps another 30,000 people and several of these suburbs at the present time have made application to be allowed to join their fortunes with Ottawa. The new and greater Ottawa is just over the threshold of the present decade.
15Ottawa's buildings, exclusive of the government property on Parliament Hill are now assessed at over $105,000,000. In the city now are 62 miles of paved streets, 227 miles of paved sidewalks, 201 miles of watermains, 147 miles of sewers and 47 miles of street railway. The government owned buildings are valued at over $21,000,000. The total taxable real estate in Ottawa for 1920 was over $100,000,000.
17The significance of these figures, when one looks at them in the light of the past, means a great deal for the future of the Canadian capital.
19The land on which the city originally stood comprises six lots, three lots of Concession C and three lots of Concession D, the boundary line between them being Cumberland Street. The first of these two lots extending north and south from Maria St. (Laurier Ave.) as far south as Ann St. (now Gladstone) and east and west from Concession St. (now Bronson Ave.) to the Rideau river, were patented to Grace McQueen in 1801 by the crown. Her family lived there till 1832 when these lands were sold for $5,500 to Col. By. In 1802 Jacob Carman took out a patent for two lots similar in size from Pooley's Bridge to the Rideau between Ottawa and Cathcart streets on the north and Wellington and Rideau Streets on the south which included Parliament Hill and Major's Hill Park. This property changed hands for ten pounds, and in 1823 was again taken possession of by the crown at a price around $3,500. The remaining two lots between these two properties, one of which is now the business centre of Ottawa was obtained by John Burrows, who
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