137 Concord South, Old Ottawa East

137 Concord (no 'e') was built c. 1912, originally home to Edward Schelinske (spellings vary wildly), an engineer with the C.A.R. / Grand Trunk railway.

Once upon a time, Concord ran largely uninterrupted from the northern end of Archville, south to Springhurst, a distance of some 740 metres. In the mid-1960s, the right-of-way of the abandoned (above mentioned) railway (by that time part of the CN system) was appropriated for the construction of the Queensway ("the 417" as it's now usually called.) This made quite a mess.

In the 1965 aerial below, we can see all the sand and soil that's been dumped over the former rail-bed to create the roadbed and berms that would support the new freeway on its eastern approach to the city. No underpass was built at Concord (which I've coloured in green), so the road was severed in two — that's how we came have to Concord "North" and "South."