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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
Ottawa East had more of an industrial history than you think. There was the Morrison-Lamonthe Bakery and neighbouring Mutual Dairy (I remember the ice cream counter, yum) on Echo Drive, Walker's Bakery on Evelyn Street and there was a silica brick factory near the Pretoria Bridge along the canal. Someone related to our family by marriage operated a sand boat between Uplands and the factory 100 years ago. Then you had the neighbouring railway roundhouse and coal oil factory on the eastern edge of Ottawa East. With the exception of the brick factory that disappeared probably in the 20s, the rest is easily in living memory.
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As a kid I lived a couple of years at Pretoria and the Driveway. I remember Morrison -Lamonthe and buying ice cream cones at the Mutual.
The 417 did not exist and there were railroad tracks instead. On Isabella , across from where the Loblaws is now there were a couple of cattle pens. Cattle were dropped off there and held in the pens for pick-up.
On Lees you had the coal oil plant. There were piles of coal sitting in the open in the area. The New York Central Railroad had sidings there, where they parked rolling stock. My father had a part -time job for a while, where he would go and record the serial numbers and condition of what was parked there. In the days before computers and GPs, that was how they kept track of where there equipment was.
That end of Old Ottawa East was very much an industrial area at one time.
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