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A century ago, one of Ottawa's top tourist destinations was a pathway around Parliament Hill, called Lovers’ Walk. It's reputation deteriorated over the years, as did the path itself, before finally closing in 1938.

Taking a look back at how Ottawa celebrated the end of World War II.

Parking meters were installed on Ottawa streets back in the late 1950's, "to solve the pest of the streets - 'the parking hog.'"

Nearly 100 years ago, kids across Ottawa took part in a tournament to see if they could become a national marbles or jacks champion.

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.