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Ottawa's road conditions through the winter were much more challenging 93 years ago.

At one time, Chateau Cheese had billboards in Havana, and ads on the sides of buses in Hong Kong and Shanghai. It also could be purchased in markets in India, throughout Central America, Bermuda, and parts of western Africa.

Hundreds of men marched on Ottawa City Hall, as well as Parliament Hill, 144 years ago, as the city endured one of its worst depression periods.

Around this time of the year in 1854, Bytown’s leading citizens thought their community was sufficiently large to make a gas works in the town a paying proposition.

An Ottawa court ruling on March 17, 1937, opened the door a crack for birth control in Canada.

Prior to the establishment of the Bank of Canada on Wellington Street, Canada had little in the way of an active monetary policy.

The first set of lights were installed on Sparks Street, 93 years ago.

It was estimated that between 45,000 and 50,000 people filed past Laurier’s bier during the 36 hours he laid in the Commons chamber.

It took quite a long time to decide on a design, but the single red maple leaf has been flying across the nation ever since.

The last horse races to ever be held on the Ottawa River took place nearly 100 years ago to this day.