On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Apparently the server hosting the Ottawa blog's fixed up for the moment. Vancouver's still having some problems, but hope is strong and realistic that this can be dealt with.

I'm still looking for requests-for-subjects for future instalments of the "Street Names" series. I've got a few candidates of my own from across town in the hopper, of course, but your suggestions could be good cause for rearranging the schedule. I just need to know what they are.

As in Spacing Ottawa.

That item I promised re: Besserer Street in Sandy Hill?

It's live!

More, it's been reviewed by Open File Ottawa.

Also: fellow Spacing Ottawa contributor Kathryn Hunt comments on cycling issues over there. You might want a look at that one also!

I just started this group up yesterday: Flickr: Ottawa-Gatineau Street Signage

Seemed like it was time, given the stuff I'm up to over at Spacing Ottawa again. More on that anon, I promise!

Still recovering from the news of the federal election results of this past Monday. Plenty of ideas as to where we're going next as a nation, and I'm not sure how good most of them are going to be. Call me one of the "Outmaneuvered Majority" yet again, thanks to First Past the Post rules. In Canada as in the UK, it seems, and my sympathies go out to my UK friendlisters who lost out re: the Alternative Voting referendum.

I'll be taking in a couple of the Jane's Walk tours taking place across Ottawa today and possibly tomorrow as well. Call it deep research for possible future editions of the Street Name History series I've been writing for Spacing Ottawa. Also, for fun's sake. And for exercise as well.

(Not sure whether to take in the "Hidden Bronson" or "East Glebe" tours to start the day off. Annoyingly, they're programmed for the same time slot.)

More as I think of it...

Does anyone in Ottawa reading this know when Greenfield north of Don - out in the general direction of Britannia Bay - was renamed Lorne Greene Way? I'm thinking, based on Pathfinder Maps' coverage of Ottawa that it was somewhen in the 2005-'06 neighbourhood, but not sure. Digging through the City's bylaw books to check at the moment.