Manotick War Memorial Revisited

The War Memorial in Manotick occupies a place on the west shore of the western channel of the Rideau River on the west side of Dicknison Street almost directly opposite where Clapp Lane connects to Dickinson Street.

In memory of those men
and women of the Canadian and
Allied Forces, who made the
supreme sacrifice for
their country, in times of war,
peace or peacekeeping.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

THIS IS
THE ORIGINAL FENCE
FROM THE RESIDENCE OF
THE RT. HON. SIR ROBERT BORDEN
PRIME MINISTER 1911–1920
DONATED BY
R. G. (RICH) McDONALD
COUNCILLOR, TOWNSHIP
OF RIDEAU 1980

This existing barrier was salvaged from the former bridge that once crossed the river here. It has been reinforced for your safety. The barrier will be replaced by a new fence later this summer matching the decorative fence in the park.

La clôture actuelle est cell de l'ancien point qui enjambait la rivière à cet endroit. Ell a été solidifiée par mesure de sécurité. Elle sera remplacée cet été par une nouvelle clôture qui s'agencera avec celles ornant le parc.

HAMILTON
BRIDGE & TOOL Co
BUILDERS
HAMILTON, ONT
1885

Percy Taverner Park

The park commemorating ornithologist, Percy Taverner, occupies a place at the south end of Carlyle Avenue at Woodbine Place.

Percy Taverner Park
Parc Percy-Taverner

On September 24, 2015, Ottawa City Councillor, David Chernushenko, dedicated Percy Taverner Park to the memory of Percy Taverner, ornithologist, architect, and a former resident of the neighbourhood – Old Ottawa South.

Born Percy Algernon Fowler in Guelph, Ontario, when his parents divorced and his mother remarried, he took his father's surname, Tavernier, and later changed it to Taverner. From 1912 to 1942, Taverner served as the first ornithologist at the National Museum of Canada. His ornithological activities included helping to establish Point Pelee National Park and other bird sanctuaries in Canada and serving as president of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club and founding its journal, The Canadian Field Naturalist.

Percy Taverner died in Ottawa in 1947 and is buried in Beechwood Cemetery.

Percy Algernon Taverner
June 10, 1875 – May 9, 1947

Julie Lacelle McCurdie Tree

The tree commemoration Julie Lacelle McCurdie stands in A. Y. Jackson Park in Manotick, Ontario, on the east side of the path that runs southwest of the south west corner of Arthur Crescent and Millview Street.

In memory of
Julie Lacelle McCurdie
June 30, 1966 – Oct. 6, 2016

Forever in our Hearts

À la memoire de
Julie Lacelle McCurdie
June 30, 1966 – Oct. 6, 2016

Toujours dans no Cœurs

Corktown Footbridge

The Corktown Footbridge spans the Rideau Canal opposite where Somerset Street West connects to the Queen Elizabeth Driveway.

CORKTOWN BRIDGE

The dedication of this bridge honours the Corktown community founded by the Irish canal workers and their families who lived alongside the Rideau Canal just north of this site from 1826, when work began on the Canal, until the 1840s.

Once proposed as a six-lane arterial bridge in the 1960s and then a concrete walkway planned to link the Campus Transitway Station in the 1980s, a crossing over the Rideau Canal at this location was first suggested a hundred years earlier.

City of Ottawa

LA PASSERELLE CORKTOWN

Cette passerell rend homage à la communauté de Corktown, fondée par les travailleurs irlandais du canal et leurs familles, qui ont vécu le long du canal Rideau, juste au nord de ce site, de 1826, année du début de la construction du canal, jusque dans les années 1840.

Conçu comme un point à six voies dans les années 1960, puis comme une passerelle en béton permettant d’accéder à la station Campus du Transitway dans les années 1980, ce lien avait été suggéré un siècle plus tôt.

Ville d’Ottawa

CORKTOWN FOOTBRIDGE /
LA PASSERELLE CORKTOWN

Was officially opened and dedicated / a été inaugurée
September 11, 2007 / le 11 septembre 2007

Mayor / Maire
Larry O’Brien

Chair, Transportation Committee / Présidente, Comité des transports
Councillor / Conseillère Maria McRae

Ward Councillors / Conseillers municipaux
Georges Bédaard and / et Diane Holmes

Structural Design / Conception de la structure
Delcan Corporation

Architecture & Landscape / Architecture et aménagement paysager
du Toit Architects Limited / du Toit Allsopp Hillier

Contractor / Entrepreneur
R.W. Tomlinson Limited