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Originally Posted by rocketphish
Grocery store, affordable housing among ideas for Booth Street
By: Adam Kveton, Metro
Published on Thu Jan 26 2017
This aerial photo shows the Booth Street site which the Canada Lands Company plans to redevelop.
The buildings in blue are designated heritage buildings by the federal government. The company held
its first public meeting on the redevelopment Tuesday.
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The buildings, part of a physical metallurgy lab, were a result of the need for new sources of energy, strategic minerals and gold during the Second World War, says the Canadian Register of historic places.
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http://www.metronews.ca/news/ottawa/2017...-on-former-booth-street-ottawa-lab-.html
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My Dad was one of the chief metallurgists there after the war until '52. The family (way before I was born) lived on Elm St. near Preston, and Dad walked to work. When I asked him about the place years ago he said if the rolling mill was still there he was the one that oversaw its installation, among other things. Funnily enough, one of my best pals had both a father and grandfather as metallurgists, and both worked in that same building, though his grandfather was before my dad and his dad was after.
I look forward to seeing how this area develops...