So, I found a few more maps of interest to me, thanks to help from quite a few other people on Flickr...
Showing posts with label urban history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urban history. Show all posts
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Recommended Reading: Full Frontal T.O.
Not my work...but worth getting!
For your bookstore (hoping it's an independent shop): ISBN 978 1 55245 257 8
For your bookstore (hoping it's an independent shop): ISBN 978 1 55245 257 8
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Hazeldean: Hewitt Way, Old-School
"What Canadian hockey fan alive during the last half-century or more is not going to twig to this one?"
That's what I wrote when I first uploaded this to Flickr awhile back in the fall of 2010. I was researching one of the articles on Ottawa street names that have been showing up at spacingottawa.ca under my byline from time to time, and when I saw this name on the map...well, things kept clicking.
It was almost certainly named for Foster Hewitt, the CBC sportscaster whose name and voice are synonymous for at least two generations' worth of Canadian hockey viewers and listeners by way of Hockey Night in Canada.
I wish I could recall listening to him when he was on the job, although I do recall seeing the 1972 summit series between Teams Canada and USSR as a child, which he came out of retirement specifically to cover.
That's what I wrote when I first uploaded this to Flickr awhile back in the fall of 2010. I was researching one of the articles on Ottawa street names that have been showing up at spacingottawa.ca under my byline from time to time, and when I saw this name on the map...well, things kept clicking.
It was almost certainly named for Foster Hewitt, the CBC sportscaster whose name and voice are synonymous for at least two generations' worth of Canadian hockey viewers and listeners by way of Hockey Night in Canada.
I wish I could recall listening to him when he was on the job, although I do recall seeing the 1972 summit series between Teams Canada and USSR as a child, which he came out of retirement specifically to cover.
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Keeping Up re: Spacing Ottawa
If you're interested in seeing what else I've been writing and taking pix of for Spacing Ottawa of late...
http://spacingottawa.ca/author/dwightwilliams/
A selection of pieces, mostly devoted to urban history, particularly with regard to street names. Those seven thousand or so street names had to come from somewhere after all.
There are some exceptions, though...
More on other subjects in the weeks to come. This blog could use a little dusting-off to bring it back into active mode!
http://spacingottawa.ca/author/dwightwilliams/
A selection of pieces, mostly devoted to urban history, particularly with regard to street names. Those seven thousand or so street names had to come from somewhere after all.
There are some exceptions, though...
More on other subjects in the weeks to come. This blog could use a little dusting-off to bring it back into active mode!
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