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Lowertown Lost and Found: Former Ste-Anne’s Rectory receives heritage designation

2/23/2021

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PictureSte-Anne’s Rectory beside Ste-Anne Hall, 1968
When constructed in 1921, Ste-Anne’s Rec­tory at 17 Myrand Avenue was the most elaborate building in this Lowertown Ro­man Catholic parish. It was designed by Ottawa architect Werner Ernst Noffke (1878-1964) for Monsignor Joseph Alfred Myrand, the priest who served Ste-Anne’s parish for fifty years. For Noffke, who later designed the Central Post Office, it was the first of multiple contracts with the Roman Catho­lic community in Ottawa. For Myrand, this large rectory signalled a strong francophone religious presence in the community, besides providing comfortable housing for him, his assistants and numerous visitors.

Father Myrand’s connection to Low­ertown started in a house on St. Patrick Street, near the Cathedral. His father, Jean Baptist Myrand, worked as postmaster with the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada and after Confederation performed the same tasks with the Senate of Canada. Myrand took great pleasure in telling peo­ple that he was ordained in the same place where he was born, the building having be­come, by 1892, the Monastery of the Sisters of the Precious Blood.


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Lowertown lost and found: Cornering St. Patrick and Cumberland

2/23/2021

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PictureKind-Edward to St-Patrick, looking west
Built between 1878 and 1888, the distinc­tive brick house on the southeast corner of St. Patrick and Cumberland housed one of the four businesses of this intersec­tion – a business at each corner. Although situated at the outer edge of the main commercial part of Lowertown, residents near this junction had everything within reach, from meat, groceries and liquor to painted signs.
Regrettably, this last of the original buildings that once stood at this cross­road is now facing the prospect of being surrounded by a proposed four-storey apartment development that would ex­tend along Cumberland, from Murray Street to St. Patrick Street.
Like many Lowertown corner build­ings, the house has already experienced physical changes and varied uses over its lifetime. The story of some of the oc­cupants and their enterprises reveals a little background on its evolution and the eventual acquisition of two addresses – 320 St. Patrick Street and 277 Cumber­land. 

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Links to Heritage Articles in the Echo

2/23/2021

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Many stories of Lowertown's rich heritage can be found in the community newspaper The Lowertown Echo de la Basse-ville. At last count, there were 147 stories listed under the Heritage category.
As well, we will be posting links to other useful projects you can do to help tell the story of Lowertown to present and future generations. These will appear in the Archives and be searchable by category. 

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    Heritage

    Go here for a brief outline of historic Lowertown and the mandate of the Heritage committee.  

    More stories of Lowertown's rich heritage can be found in the community newspaper The Lowertown Echo de la Basse-ville. 

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