OOE, plus a fair slice of OOS & The Glebe, 1879

Here's a little map I prepared this morning to help me understand the development history of Old Ottawa East. The base map is one of the Nepean plans from H. Belden's 1879 Atlas of Carleton County. Sorry about the wonky crop on the left margin, that's how the online version was scanned. As always, click on the image to view larger.

My intention here was to create a reference for lots and concessions in the area. Lots are lettered from F to M — don't ask me where Lot J disappeared to — as far a I can tell, it never existed. The red line running north to south divides Concession C from Concession D. Main Street follows the line south from the Canal.

Spenceville (named for the Reverend Alexander Spence, minister of St. Andrew’s from 1848 to 1867) was subdivided in 1869 on Lot H between Main and the Canal — all of Lot H was once church property. 

Note how the "Bates" property on Lot I west of Main has been subdivided into nine long, narrow strips for market farming, At this time I can't determine if the name in fact refers to the grocery and real estate magnate Henry Newell Bate. As Bate (no 's') had a wholesale warehouse on the Canal (where the NAC now stands, having canal-side farmland only two miles upstream would have been an ideal arrangement. Fresh produce from farm to table in 24 hours, all summer long!

Brantwood Place (subdivided 1913) was built on Lot I between Main and the Rideau River.

What is now the rear lot-line of homes on the north side of Eliot Avenue marked the official southern boundary of the Village of Ottawa East. These days the boundary between OOE and Old Ottawa South is usually considered to lie some 325 metres south, along a line defined by the curiously named Avenue Road.

On Lot K, east of Main, we see the locally famous Slattery Family farm, beef cattle and hogs a speciality.

1888-1889 Woodburn City Directory of Ottawa

Lot L between the Concession Line and Bank reveals the early development of Ottaws South in what is now Rideau Gardens.

On the west side of the Canal, we see part of the original Glebe neighbourhood, ignominiously labeled "HURCH PROPERTY."* That property extended west to Bronson Avenue. Eventually, properties reaching north to the Queensway and south to the east-west limb of the Rideau Canal would become part of "The Glebe" as we know it today.

*I'm sure you'll have figured that the intended word here was "church."