E minus 58 Days

So I think I'm going to continue photographing street name signage in upper Overbrook/Castle Heights/lower Vanier this afternoon. Some of those photos will end up attached to Spacing Ottawa essays down the road, I expect.

If the local Sask. Roughriders' fan club doesn't have anything planned tonight, I may decamp to a Second Cup or Bridgehead to do some writing over a light dinner. Not sure yet, not locked in yet.

Streets Addressed This Afternoon

Alesther
Wolffdale
Okee
Telford
Frances
Paul-Émile-Lamarche
Monseigneur Lemieux
Vincent Massey
Brant
Fullerton
Spartan
Dieppe
Belisle
Moorvale
Mutual
Guy
Blake
Côté
Jean-Talon
Pie XII
Richelieu
Lemoine
Eastview
de Lévis
Gougeon
Lafontaine
Frontenac
Iberville
Bradley
Altha
Lacasse
Lallemand
Lajoie
Camil
Malartic
Sladen
Noranda

So yeah. Well Travelled Day!

For those of you not versed in the street maps of Ottawa the city, here's a bit more context. I started from Donald Plaza Mall and wound my way through the eastern reaches of Overbrook and Vanier to arrive at Myths, Legends and Heroes, the main comics shop in that part of Ottawa-Gatineau, and cheated with the help of OC Transpo to cover some side streets considered part of the Forbes/Cummings district sandwiched between Manor Park and old Cyrville.

My feet were annoyed with me for a few hours thereafter, but it was worth it to get a walkers' eye view of those parts of town.

All of this is going to be put to work on the "Street Names" project for Spacing Ottawa at some point, of course, and if I can cross that other item off my bucket list, there will be a proper book about street names across the city of Ottawa as well. Might be in tandem with a modern-style historical atlas, might not. The omens and cards are unclear on this point.  We do need one, and I'm not sure that Derek Hayes' approach might be the best for the purpose. There's one or two others that come to mind and they strike me as better-suited. Preferably purpose-designed maps.