Ottawa: Then and Now

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Long before my Gatineau days, even before the A-50 was built, the road that is today Gréber used to continue straight north to where Montée Saint-Amour currently is north of the highway.

Gréber and Saint-Amour were the same continuous road, though I don't know where the name changed.

I guess there must have been a T intersection where today there is a curve because the A-50 forces Gréber to turn sharply eastward in the direction of Montée Paiement.

The section of Gréber beyond the curve towards Paiement was known as Chemin Scullion before the mega-fusion creating the new Gatineau in 2002.

It was named for the Scullion family which still owns and operates the large farm on the road - the only one left.

The new Gatineau eliminated all duplicate street names, and there was already a Rue Scullion in the Buckingham sector. So they just extended the Gréber name here.

Thanks for the history! I'm surprised they didn't build an on/off ramp there at the time.