Daily lives

Photographs are a unique source of information about the daily lives of Francophones in Ottawa. In photographs we see them building their houses, shopping, travelling. We are invited into their shops or onto the barges that transport their products to market. Certain images reveal challenges faced by Ottawa Francophones at different points in their history. 

 

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Byward Market building, Lowertown, [n.d.]. Photo: William James Topley.

Source : Library and Archives Canada, Topley Series SE [graphic material], PA-008670.

Black and white photograph of a three-storey stone building with awnings. Many people, along with different types of horse-drawn conveyances, wait in the square in front of the building.

Byward Market

Byward Market building, Lowertown, [n.d.]. Photo: William James Topley.

Library and Archives Canada, Topley Series SE [graphic material], PA-008670.

Black and white photograph of a three-storey stone building with awnings. Many people, along with different types of horse-drawn conveyances, wait in the square in front of the building.

Streetcar on Sussex Drive

[View from Rideau Street north on Sussex Drive], Ottawa, [n.d.]. Photo: William James Topley.

Library and Archives Canada, Topley Series TXC [graphic material], PA-012894.

Black and white photograph of a streetcar on a wide commercial boulevard decorated with streamers. People walk on the sidewalks and enter the streetcar.

Lapointe Fish Market, Byward Market

Mr. Lapointe’s fish market in the Byward Market, with his staff standing in front of the fish stall on the sidewalk. A plaque on the wall indicates that this fish market has the distinction of supplying the Governor General, [ca. 1885]. 
 

City of Ottawa Archives, Box A2011 - 0449, CA001806.

Black and white photograph of a boy and five men in white aprons, standing in front of a fish store. Signs indicate the company’s name and its distinction as a supplier to the Governor General.

Workers at work

Construction site of the Beaulne family home, Ottawa (Ontario), [ca. 1910].

University of Ottawa, CRCCF, Fonds Léonard- Beaulne (P198), Ph164-265.

Monochrome sepia photograph of six men building a wooden, three-storey house. The site appears rudimentary, and the workers not very concerned about safety.

Phydime Lamoureux in his grocery store

Phydime Lamoureux in his grocery store on Garland Street, Ottawa, [between 1930 and 1939].

University of Ottawa, CRCCF, Fonds Georgette- Lamoureux (P50), Ph238-1495.

Black and white photograph of an older man preparing a bag at the counter of a store. Behind him, shelves filled with cans and other staples.

Barge on the Rideau Canal

Barge on the Rideau Canal, [used for transporting wood], Ottawa, 1963.

University of Ottawa, CRCCF, Collection Centre culturel “La Ste-Famille,” (C80). Reproduced from the collection of Alphée Payer, Rockland (Ontario), Ph83-R150F8.

Black and white photograph of an elderly man standing on a moored barge. The barge is loaded with logs.

Rideau Street, 1953

Rideau Street at Nelson, Ottawa, December 15, 1953. Photo: Malak Karsh.

Library and Archives Canada, e011074438.

Black and white photograph of a boulevard at night. Car headlights and shop signs illuminate the photograph.

At the intersection of Ottawa Street

Children at the intersection of Ottawa Street and Booth Street, LeBreton Flats, June 1963. Photo: Ted Grant.

Library and Archives Canada, [LeBreton Flats housing conditions] Fonts, e002713095.

Black and white photograph of a young boy pushing a preschooler in a stroller alongside a brick building. A road sign indicates that they are at an Ottawa Street intersection.
Rivalry with the Irish
Lowertown in the time of expropriation