OOE News

Ottawa’s Golden Age of baking – the lost bakeries of Old Ottawa East How Old Ottawa East’s three bakeries – Morrison Lamothe, Walker’s, and Ideal Cake – turned our community into Ottawa’s breadbasket for much of the 20th century. LEFT:  This 1943 newspaper ad from the Ottawa Journal promotes Walker’s Bread as deliciously fresh and…

City proposes 50 percent increase in height along OOE’s major streets From the June 2025 Issue JOHN DANCE The City of Ottawa proposes to increase allowable building heights on Main Street, and Hawthorne and Lees avenues by 50 percent by amending Old Ottawa East’s secondary plan. The proposed changes would increase heights on Main Street…