Remember This?

It was a typical mid-August summer day in the nation’s capital—hot and muggy.

On the night of 4 August 1914, a slender, athletic, 21-year old man know as 'Rib' took the night train from Ottawa to New York, never to return.

In 1989, the old Union Station was classified as a federal heritage building.

Trees attacked by the emerald ash borer typically die within a few years of being infected.

Friends and family knew the end was coming; the enigmatic, political warrior had been fading for some time.

The anniversary, which officially became Canada Day in 1982, was originally known as Dominion Day.

For more than fifty years, the family-run Green Valley Restaurant was a landmark on the Prescott Highway, later known as Prince of Wales Drive.

With the Great Depression still holding a powerful grip over the North American economy, the promise of quick money attracted thousands.

On arriving in Ottawa the evening before the official opening of the Congress, the statue was paraded through the streets of Lowertown led by the band of Lasalle Academy, followed by cadets of Notre Dame College.

Today, thousands of Ottawa residents, young and old, play tennis in clubs as well as on neighbourhood courts run by community members.