Take a look at LeBreton Flats — then and now
CBC News | Posted: December 21, 2018 12:37 PM | Last Updated: December 21, 2018
The area was a neighbourhood before it was bulldozed in the 1960s
All the recent tumult over the redevelopment of LeBreton Flats has us hearkening back to the days when it was, in fact, a functional, bustling community.
- NCC pulls plug on RendezVous LeBreton deal
- CBC Ottawa's full coverage of the Lebreton Flats redevelopment
The origins of LeBreton Flats go back to the 19th century, when its working class residents provided much-needed labour to the local lumber industry.
It was devastated by the Great Fire of 1900, but some people did rebuild their homes and businesses.
In the 1960s, the federal government expropriated the lands for a new campus for its workforce — one that was never actually built there, however.
Since then, LeBreton Flats has remained mostly empty.
We've taken some images from the City of Ottawa Archives that show the neighbourhood during the 1950s and 1960s and melded them with contemporary shots from Google Street View.
Pull the slider back and forth to toggle between the LeBreton Flats of the past and its modern day equivalent.
Since many of the former streets no longer exist, some locations may be approximate.