OTTAWA REWIND

If you have ever travelled by watercraft along the Rideau River near the village of Kars, you may have spotted a derelict old boat quietly languishing in the reeds of the riverbank.

*PLEASE NOTE: Samuel de Champlain uses the term “sauvage” or savage (meaning “wild” or people of the forest) to refer to the Indigenous peoples of North America.

As the City Of Ottawa celebrates its 200th Anniversary this year, I began to think of all the historical milestones it has gone through since 1826.

A map from 1733 that indicates a curious village called “Gonejou” A recent study of an old map of the Great Lakes region revealed a curious detail that piqued my interest…a sketch of a village near Kingston called “Gonejou”.

As the Year 2025 draws to a close, I wanted to post one last article that takes some of the stories from the past and re-imagines them using current Ai imagery.

Approximately an hour and a half drive west of Ottawa will take you to the popular summer village of Westport, a quaint town nestled at the foot of Foley Mountain.

Travelling between Ottawa and Kingston today takes about 2 hours by car on either Highway 15 or the 416/401 route.

THE TRAGIC CRASH OF A WW-2 BOMBER IN A MANOTICK FARM FIELD After World War Two ended in 1945, many of the aircraft that were in service moved on to other roles in the 1950s.

The year is 1854 and eight years prior, The Smithsonian Institution was formed in 1846 as a group of museums, education and research centres, created by the U.S. government “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge”.

There is no replica structure, no plaque, not even a flagpole or an engraved rock.

The McDonald’s sign in Bells Corners could be the only original surviving example in Canada.