Here is York Street in the Byward Market circa 1911.

Seven ladies posing in front of the Ottawa Ski Club clubhouse, Camp Fortune, 1922. Canada Ski Museum and Hall of Fame collection. Skimuseum.ca (Ottawa Ski Club organized 1910).

Here is the outside of the Imperial, now Barrymore's, on Bank Street ca. 1938.

Two friends end their trip to Hull, at the corner of St. Joseph and Raymond in Hull.

Ottawa band the Esquires, active between 1962-1967. Formed by Clint Hierlihy and Gary Comeau while still in high school, they were one of Canada's first pop groups, and also the first recipient's of the first-ever Juno award.

The Spirit of Canada, launched from a field near the corner of Smyth and St. Laurent.). The balloon flew off in 1967 as a part of Centennial celebrations.

A Nurse Ratchet looks on as a patient experiences a "Schnee Bath" in the Chateau Laurier Therapeutic Department, 1931.

Nuns of the Sisters of Charity of St. Paul, on the lawn of 1153 Wellington Street in Hintonburg, the site of the St. George's Home for Boys. This "home" was a basically a distribution for boys removed from industrial cities -- and often their families -- in England. The boys would then become indentured labor, mostly on Canadian farms, until they reached the age of 18.

Alexandria Hotel on St Patrick's day. 1949-50

Canadian School of Musketry, Rockcliff, Ottawa 1915

[H.P. Beall, "Lunch for Six of Us" Picnic on the Rideau Canal, , 1902, silver gelatin print, Bytown Museum

Female prisoners in the Carleton County Jail on Nicholas Street in 1895.