Jul. 12th, 2021

dewline: Highway Sign version of "Ottawa the City" Icon (city life)
I've written the occasional entry for Spacing Ottawa on the subject of street names, illustrating those entries with photographic imagery of the streets whose names were under discussion. Owing to inspiration from a friend, let me share some of that imagery again here. Some weirder, some more entertaining than others, others in need of a change.

In the same spirit as Toronto's Avenue Road, we have on the eastern edge of Centretown, also known as the Golden Triangle in between the Rideau Canal and Elgin Street, we have...the Driveway:

Just "the Driveway"

We have streets named for nations, foreign and domestic. Norway, for one example of the foreign...

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For our provinces as decided by the federal government:

Ontario Street

Our better-known artists are represented, too, among them the photographer Yusuf Karsh:

Manju and Karsh

And a few others you may have heard of in relation to Canada:

Entertainers' Streets I

Artists and entertainers from elsewhere, too:

Cole Porter Street

Fictional characters of various origins:

Britannia Novel Names

Street Names of Ottawa: Works of Fiction


Canada's first female-identifying doctor:

Stowe  Court -2

A revolutionary and a doctor who tried to save him from the consequences of his actions:

Riel and Valade

And there are more to be seen on my Flickr account...
dewline: Interrobang symbol (astonishment)
I just realized: I've had an account with them - through three ownership groups (Yahoo!, Verizon and now SmugMug) - for fifteen years now.

So...yay, me, I guess?

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