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O'Connor Street
O'Connor Street is a downtown arterial road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is a north–south route, operating one way southbound, providing a key thoroughfare parallel to Bank Street. The roadway begins at Wellington Street, at Parliament Hill, proceeding south towards the Queensway ( Highway 417) where there is a westbound on-ramp. South of the Queensway, O'Connor continues as a local street in The Glebe neighbourhood until it reaches its southern terminus at Holmwood Avenue. A two-way cycle track was built along the east side of the street in 2016. Major intersections (from North to South): * Wellington Street * Sparks Street * Albert Street * Slater Street * Laurier Avenue * Somerset Street * Gladstone Avenue * Catherine Street * Highway 417 ( Queensway) * Isabella Street * Fifth Avenue * Holmwood Avenue See also *Dominion-Chalmers United Church (O'Connor at Lisgar) * High Commission of Australia in Ottawa *Ottawa Curling Club The Ottawa Curling Club is an hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slater Street (Ottawa)
A slater, or slate mason, is a tradesperson who covers buildings with slate. Tools used The various tools of the slater's trade are all drop-forged. The slater's hammer is forged in one single piece, from crucible-cast steel, and has a leather handle. It consists of a claw for drawing nails, a sheer edge for cutting slate, and a head with a sharp point at one end for punching holes in slate and with a hammer head at the other. The ripper is also forged from crucible-cast steel and is long. It consists of a blade and a hook, and is used for removing broken slate. The hook can be used to cut and remove slating nails. The slater's stake is T-shaped. The vertical bar of the "T" is pointed to allow it to be driven into a rafter or other woodworking surface. The horizontal bar of the "T" is used to support slates whilst working on them (cutting, punching, or smoothing) with other tools. The long bar of the stake can also be used as a straight edge for marking. The zax (also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Commission Of Australia In Ottawa
The high commissioner of Australia to Canada is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the High Commission of the Commonwealth of Australia to Canada. The Australian High Commission also has responsibility for relations with Bermuda, a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and is currently held by Kate Logan since 9 December 2024. Australia and Canada have enjoyed official diplomatic relations since 12 September 1939, when high commissioners were first exchanged as Australia's second independent diplomatic posting established from 29 March 1940, with only the High Commission in London (1910) being older. As fellow Dominion countries, Australia and Canada had many prior contacts, particularly in trade, and continue to share a monarch as Commonwealth realms. The High Commissioner's Official Residence is located at Australia Hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominion-Chalmers United Church
Dominion Chalmers United Church is a large United Church of Canada, United church, located in downtown Ottawa, at the corner of Cooper and O'Connor Street (Ottawa), O'Connor Streets (with access from Lisgar Street). It is a 1962 merger of two key congregations from both the Methodist and Presbyterian traditions, each possessing lengthy histories. History Chalmers Presbyterian/United Church, was originally Bank Street Canada Presbyterian Church, located on nearby Bank Street (Ottawa), Bank Street at Slater Street from 1866 to 1914. Alexander Cowper Hutchison (architect) designed the Bank Street Presbyterian Church at Bank Street at Slater Street in 1868. The Bank Street Presbyterian Church building was reconstructed by the architect William Hodgson (architect), William Hodgson in 1881 after a fire. Alexander Cowper Hutchison designed the Bank Street Presbyterian Sunday School in 1890. The Bank Street Presbyterian Church was renamed after Thomas Chalmers, a leader of the 1843 disr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensway (Ottawa)
Queensway may refer to: Roads Canada * Queensway (Ottawa), which consists of Ontario Highway 417 and Ottawa Road 174 * The Queensway, in Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario * York Regional Road 12 or Queensway, in Georgina Township, Ontario Hong Kong *Queensway (Hong Kong) India * Queensway, New Delhi, now Janpath, a road in New Delhi Singapore *Queensway, a road in the Queenstown area United Kingdom * Queensway (Birmingham), West Midlands * Queensway, London * Queensway, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire * Queensway, Cheshire, a road in Widnes and part of the A557 road *Queensway Tunnel, in Merseyside *Queensway, part of the A726 road within East Kilbride, Scotland Gibraltar * Queensway, Gibraltar Other uses * Queensway (horse), a racehorse * Queensway (New York City), a planned conversion of the former Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Rail Road to a linear park * Queensway (Stevenage), a shopping centre * Queensway (retailer), a defunct furnit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladstone Avenue
Gladstone Avenue is a street in Ottawa running east from the Rideau Canal west to Parkdale Avenue. It is a historically residential street running just south of the downtown core, with a number of small houses in the downtown section now converted to commercial uses. The local pronunciation is phonetic, unlike that of William Ewart Gladstone's surname. Landmarks * Connaught Public School, just east of Parkdale Avenue. (1149 Gladstone) * Gladstone Theatre, just west of Preston Street * Saint Nicholas Adult High School, at Booth Street. * McNabb Arena and Community Centre at Percy Street, one block east of Bronson Avenue. Notable events When laid out in the 1800s, the street was named Ann Street, after the wife of Thomas McKay Thomas McKay (1 September 1792 – 9 October 1855) was a Canadian businessman who was one of the founders of the city of Ottawa, Ontario. Biography McKay was born in Perth, Scotland and became a skilled stonemason. He emigrated to the Cana .... Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset Street (Ottawa)
Somerset Street is a street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is divided into Somerset Street East and Somerset Street West by the Rideau Canal. The western portion is internally designated as Ottawa Road #36, as part of the now-mostly unsigned Ottawa Roads system; a legacy of the former Ottawa-Carleton regional roads system. Somerset Street East Somerset Street East is a short road that runs through the neighbourhood of Sandy Hill from the University of Ottawa campus to the west and Strathcona Park to the east. Somerset also used to extend east over the Rideau River towards St. Laurent Boulevard. However, that bridge was destroyed by flooding in 1952 and never replaced. The street was renamed Donald Street east of the river. In 2015, a new bicycle/pedestrian bridge ( Adàwe Crossing) was completed across the river on the site of the old bridge, and the street has become an important bicycle corridor between the university and downtown Ottawa. By 2017, bicycle volumes accou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurier Avenue (Ottawa)
Laurier Avenue (; Ottawa Road #48) is a central east west street running through Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Originally known as "Maria Street" (west of Waller) and "Theodore Street" (east of Waller), it was renamed in honour of Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Laurier House, the residence of Prime Ministers Laurier and William Lyon Mackenzie King, is located at the corner of Laurier Avenue East and Chapel Street. Route ;Bronson Avenue to the Rideau Canal Laurier runs through the heart of downtown Ottawa. The south side of Laurier from Bronson east is almost all high-rises, starting with residential towers at Bronson, and commercial and government office buildings further to the east. Located on the south side of Laurier, between Bank Street and O'Connor is the main building of the Canadian Department of Finance. The main branch of the Ottawa Public Library is located at the intersection of Laurier and Metcalfe, and Ottawa City Hall is on the south side of Laurier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Street (Ottawa)
Albert Street may refer to: * Albert Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia * Albert Street, Camden, London, England * Albert Street, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia * Albert Street (Ottawa), Ontario, Canada * Albert Street (Regina, Saskatchewan), Canada * Albert Street, Riga, Latvia * Albert Street (Singapore), Singapore ( Road names in Singapore) {{Road disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arterial Road
An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road that sits below highway A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It includes not just major roads, but also other public roads and rights of way. In the United States, it is also used as an equivalent term to controlled-access highway, or ...s on the road hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed. The primary function of an arterial road is to deliver traffic from collector roads to highways or expressways, and between urban hubs at a relatively high level of service. Therefore, many arteries are limited-access roads or feature restrictions on private access. Because of their relatively high accessibility, many major roads face large amounts of land use and urban development, making them significant urban places. In traffic engineering hierarchy, an arterial road delivers traffic between collector roads and highways. For new arterial roads, intersections are of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sparks Street (Ottawa)
Sparks Street () is a Pedestrian zone, pedestrian mall in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was a main street in Ottawa that was converted into an outdoor pedestrian street in 1967, making it the earliest such street or mall in Canada.ottawakiosk city guide , retrieved 19 August 2012 Sparks runs from Elgin Street (Ottawa), Elgin Street in the east to Bronson Avenue in the west. The Sparks Street Mall, which contains a number of outdoor restaurants and several works of art and fountains, only runs from Elgin to Bank Street (Ottawa), Bank Street. The pedestrian-only portion continues for another two blocks westward. The final two blocks, west of Lyon Street, consist of a regular road, merging into Bronson Avenue heading south. The mall and most of the buildings on the south side are owned and operated by the Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cycle Track
A cycle track or cycleway (''British'') or bikeway (''mainly North American''), sometimes historically referred to as a sidepath, is a separate route for cycles and not motor vehicles. In some cases cycle tracks are also used by other users such as pedestrians and horse riders (see shared-use route). A cycle track can be next to a normal road, and can either be a shared route with pedestrians (common in countries such as the United Kingdom) or be made distinct from both the pavement and general roadway by vertical barriers or elevation differences. In urban planning, cycle tracks are designed to encourage cycling and reduce motor vehicle congestion and pollution, cycling accidents (by alleviating the conflict between motor vehicles and cycles sharing the same road space) and general confusion and inconvenience for road users. Cycle tracks may be one-way or two-way, and may be at road level, at sidewalk level, or at an intermediate level. When located alongside normal roads, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
