Showing posts with label gas station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gas station. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2026

Main and Hawthorn, NW corner, Old Ottawa East


 One of those lovely interbellum cottagey tile-roof gas-stations, sited on the SE corner of the old Ballantyne homestead. built no later than 1928 per the aerial photos. It's listed in the 1932 Directory thus —


— where Sun Oil Co is what we would now call Sunoco (do they still exist? no idea.) I took this photo late last summer, afraid to see what the corner looks like now. Note that "CNR crossing" is now the Queensway.