Stunning Vintage Pictures of Ottawa in the 1900s

Sussex St. and George St., Ottawa, ca. late 1900s

The first theater on Old Sparks St., Ottawa, Ontario, 1906

The Ottawa Normal School, June 1909

Timber Slide in Ottawa, ca. early 1900s

Wellington St., Ottawa, ca. early 1900s

Bank St. at Sparks, 1905

Britannia Beach, Ottawa, ca. 1900s

Britannia Pier, Ottawa River

Broad St., Lebreton Flats, Ottawa, ca. early 1900s

Butchery on Richmond Rd. in Westboro

Byward Market, Ottawa, 1905

Chicken vendor in the market on York St., Ottawa, ca. late 1900s

Cows on Fifth Ave., Ottawa, 1900

Daly Building ca. early 1900s

Daly Building, 1906

Downtown Ottawa

Dow's Lake causeway, 1904

Election Day in front of Ottawa East town hall, 1908

Election Day in Ottawa in the early 1900s

Elephant parade on Wellington St., ca. 1900

Elgin St. looking south from Wellington St., ca. late 1900s

Elgin St., Ottawa, ca. 1900s

Icemen cutting blocks of ice from the Ottawa River near the Prince of Wales Br., ca. 1900s

Looking west on Wellington St.

Macadam Rd. being built now Main St. in Old Ottawa East in the late 1900s

Maplelawn in 1907

Metcalfe St. on a snowy day, 1907

Ottawa Electric Railway streetcar in Britannia Park, ca. early 1900s

Ottawa Ladies College hockey group, March 1906

Ottawa Post Office burns in 1904

Race Weekend in Ottawa,1903

RIchmond Rd. near Ottawa, 1902

Ruins of the Gilmour Hotel on Bank St., Sept 15, 1906

Snow clearing on Sparks St. in Ottawa, 1902

Sparks St., Ottawa, 1909

Stonemasons working on the building of the Victoria Museum in Ottawa, ca. early 1900s

(Photos from Ross Dunn)