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The store occupied the corner of Sparks Street and O'Connor Street for 83 years, and in its final days was known more for being Ottawa's oldest store than its greatest.

An entire banquet meal cooked in an electric oven had not happened anywhere in North America until Thomas Ahearn put his new technology to the test in Ottawa almost 130 years ago.

It was 50 years ago this week that a small group of men and women, numbering anywhere from 80 to 200 (accounts vary) marched on Parliament Hill in the first "gay liberation" protest in Canada.

Sporting events took centre stage as Ottawa celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding. Newspapers also took guesses at what life would be like in the capital 100 years later.

Picnickers who had been listening to a rock and roll band in nearby Vincent Massey Park that hot, sultry afternoon in 1966, described the collapse of the bridge as sounding like a low-flying airplane.

A Rideau Street staple from 1916 until the building's demolition in 2003.

Taking a look back at when Ottawa's mayor and city council decided to provide "first class city streets."

Other potential names for the Lord Elgin Hotel were The Kingsford, the Empire and The Tweedsmuir.

During the Great Depression the Canadian government came up with the idea of establishing temporary relief camps across the country for the estimated 70,000 single, unemployed, homeless, and malnourished men that were tramping the roads.

Canada's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1927, which included a visit from famous American Colonel Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis, were overshadowed by the death of another American pilot.