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Originally Posted by J.OT13
Just like the bodies under Queen Street a few years ago, this is no surprise to those of us familiar with the city's history, but it's still fascinating that after 160 odd years of development over these old sites, we are still finding these relics relatively intact.
It's a great way to familiarize those who don't know much about Ottawa before Confederation to get a better understanding of where we came from.
I wish we, as a city and as a region (including Hull, Gatineau and Aylmer) did more to honour our past beyond our role as the NCR. In 2026, we better have a 200th anniversary celebration of the founding of Bytown.
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I was rather disappointed with the Canada 150 because it seemed to me to imply that prior to 1867 there was nothing and then Kaboom! Canada came into being!
Our history and who we are has been influenced and shaped by the people who travelled through or permanently settled in this geographic area (North America) since the first human who crossed the Bering Strait Land Bridge touched what is now Alaska.
What I would really like to see is a collection and publishing of first nation oral history. When the Vikings arrived in Newfoundland did word of their arrival reach very far west? When the Spanish brought European diseases to the New World, did word of the dying reach the Great Plains? I know that I've drifted off the chart with this thread but who wouldn't want to know?