91 Concord Street, Archville, Old Ottawa East

 An oddity sitting at the confluence of here and there, then and now.

The records are maddeningly vague — the house was likely built in the early 1900s, when Concord still called Centre, the street numbering was different, and Archville was not yet a part of Ottawa. This last-gasp of Victoriana then backed on a stretch of depressed, marshy ground, soon to become a rail-yard and past that, a coal-gasification plant.

In the spring of 1951, the address sprang into the headlines as the lair of the notorious abductor and sex-torturer of teenage boys, Owen Dulmage.

Clippings from the Ottawa Citizen,

March 26 1951

Dulmage's saga of kidnapping and assault apparently continued for at least a decade after the "weird" episode of March 1951. Dozens of boys were likely tortured in the basement of 91 Concord and it is very possible that some died there.