Dedicated to Preserving Our Built Heritage October 2014 Volume 41, No. 4

Heritage News Now Editor’s Note This article and the one that follows attest to the fact that the loss of rural and suburban heritage to urbanization is not new. Heritage plans to address Action Sandy Hill the issues of identification and loss of rural heritage at our Heritage Forum, to be calls for More held in February 2015. Heritage Protection 910 Road, The History of a House built in the Suburbs of Ottawa in 1876 By Ken Elder

If it wasn’t for a pair mid-1920’s with a pair of gable dormers and postcards, captioned Annesley three inside chimneys with corbelled College, that I stumbled on, it is caps. The overhang of the gables are unlikely this brief history would decorated with elaborate wood verge ever have been written. I had never boards. The stone trimmed brick

Photo: David B. Flemming David Photo: heard of Annesley College, but it was walls have tall rectangular windows On Wednesday September 17 obviously located in a large Victorian with carved stone label arches. Other heritage supporters from Sandy house, in a park-like setting, set well architectural features include an Hill and friends marched from All back from a busy thoroughfare.. oriel window centred on the slightly Saints Church, a designated heritage building which is currently for sale, The house itself to 261-275 East, the is two storey site of the proposed demolition of 6 low rise apartment buildings, to brick over a encourage the City rock face stone to preserve the historic character basement, of Sandy Hill. built in the All Saints Church and the 6 buildings Gothic Revival at the corner of Laurier and Friel style with a contribute to the overall character picturesque of Laurier Avenue East, one of the most historic streets in Ottawa, home plan, cruciform to three former Prime Ministers in shape. The and countless other prominent picturesque contributors to the building of

silhouette of the Collection) (K. Elder Postcard: this country. roof is achieved See page 7 for more News Now. by four steeply Postcard. Annesley College, Ottawa. Published by Crabtree Co. pitched gables c. 1925. Front View of Campus 1 910 Bank Street Road cont’d.

projecting bay on the Alexander MacLean principal facade (1834-1908) was Heritage Ottawa is a non-profit organization dedicated to the and a bull’s- a successful preservation of Ottawa’s built heritage. eye window businessman of centred Scottish origin Linda Hoad in each who arrived Editor gable. Two in Ottawa in Jan Soetermans one-storey 1872 after Graphic Designer verandahs, teaching Katari Imaging with posts school and Printing and brackets running a are worked business in Heritage Ottawa 2 Daly Avenue into the angles Paris, , of the wings then pursuing a

Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6E2 Example, by of ; or Success Men Photo: 1895) Garretson, Bradley, (Brantford: IV. Vol. on the principal career in newspaper Tel: 613-230-8841 Fax: 613-564-4428 façade. A Classical publishing in Alexander MacLean Email: [email protected] style entrance feature, Cornwall. In 1873 he Web: www.heritageottawa.org projects slightly from went into a partnership Leslie Maitland main verandah. Taken together with John Charles Roger (1841- President the architectural treatment of this 1925), foreman at the Ottawa Times, building is studied and sophisticated to form MacLean, Roger & Co. David B. Flemming Past-President and likely the work of an experienced and take over proprietorship of the architect. Ottawa Times. The company recorded David Jeanes and sold debates in the Senate and Vice-President Operations After considerable searching it turns House of Commons until 1875 Katherine Charbonneau out this house stood on Bank Street when the Government took over this Vice-President Programs opposite Clarey Avenue, where there work. MacLean Roger & Co. lost Willam R. Price is currently a Beer Store. The former first the business of recording the Secretary campus is now an asphalt covered debates, then the first contract for (vacant) parking lot. The house was built by printing the new Hansard (leading Treasurer Alexander MacLean. (vacant) Legal Consultant Danielle Jones Webmaster Directors: Jay Baltz, Richard Belliveau, Laurie Brady, Linda Dicaire, Ken Elder, Ian Ferguson, Louise Fox, Linda Hoad, Danielle Jones, Robert Martin, Heather McArthur, Katherine Spencer-Ross, Carolyn Quinn.

Heritage Ottawa acknowledges the financial support of the and the Ontario Ministry of Culture Postcard: (C. R. McGuire Collection) (C. R. McGuire Postcard: Postcard. Annesley College, Ottawa. Published by Crabtree Co. c. 1925 2 to the closure of the newspaper in 1877), and finally contract printing for the Queen’s Printer in 1888 when all printing was transferred to the Government Printing Bureau. Maclean was elected as an alderman in Wellington Ward in 1889, one of two newly elected aldermen residing in the newly annexed territory of Nepean. He ran again successfully in 1890, and in 1893 and 1894 he was elected alderman for Victoria Ward. “He was one of the most active aldermen, in 1890, in procuring K. Elder Photo: the adoption of the electric railway Bank St. from Thornton St., looking south-west, 2012. Site of Annesley College, 1925-1949. in Ottawa, as in 1893-94 he was for completing the amalgamation Alexander MacLean is listed in the had a frontage of 333 feet on Bank of the horse and electric railway City Directory as living at both 77 Street Road and a depth of 158 feet companies.” Albert Street and at a house on Bank which reached all the way through to Street Road. Likely while the Gothic Monk Street, in the block bounded In November, 1903 MacLean was Revival house shown in the postcards by Thornton Street on the north and appointed Canadian commercial above was under construction, the Centre Street (now Holmwood Ave.) agent in Japan, serving first in family remained at the Albert Street on the south. The nearest neighbour Yokohama and then briefly in location which was given up the to the MacLean’s would have been Shanghai, China. Alexander following year. Mayor C. H. Mackintosh, who was MacLean died in Shanghai on living in “Abbotsford”, the former December 22, 1908, and was Bank Street Road at the time was Mutchmor house, to the south. The interred at Beechwood Cemetery a continuation of Bank Street numbering of properties on Bank beside his wife, who had predeceased in Ottawa, passing through the Street (which occurred in 1891) him in 1897, on March 18, 1909. Township of Nepean until it reached assigned it the number 910. Billings Bridge. “Quite a number of Alexander MacLean married in gentlemen’s residences were scattered At the time of the Canadian Census 1863 and lived with his growing along its whole length.” The lot of 1901 Alexander MacLean, now family at 77 Albert Street. In 1876 66 years of age, was still living in the 910 Bank Street house with two sons and a daughter. By the following year the house had been rented, and Alexander Maclean had moved to The Gilmour, a hotel on Bank Street. His daughter Margaret, who had been given the Ottawa house in 1899, sold 910 Bank Street to Charles Hopewell on August 2, 1906. Hopewell in turn sold it on March 1, 1907 to the Trustees of the Holiness Movement Church in Canada. A new chapter in the life of 910 Bank Street began.

Photo : K. Elder Photo The Holiness Movement Church was a sect started by Bishop Ralph Ecclesiax Church (former Holiness Movement Church), 27 Monk St. at corner of Cecil Horner (1853-1921) in 1895 Fifth Ave., 2012 3 The Fire Insurance plan of 1956 shows a somewhat shocking change to the pastoral setting of the former College. At the Thornton Avenue – Bank Street corner is a Supertest gasoline service station (1936). What was the property of Annesley College is occupied by a used car lot operated by Ottawa Motor Sales Limited (1946). At the Holmwood Avenue – Bank Street corner is another gasoline service station operated by McColl-Frontenac Oil Co. Ltd (1950). The original MacLean house is no longer in

Credit: LAC. e010689440-v8.jpg LAC. Credit: evidence. As noted by John Leaning in his book The Story of : Fire Insurance plan of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Volume II, December 1902, revised “The first garages were built north June 1912. Sheet 152. Detail of Glebe Avenue and south of Fifth Avenue until by the mid-twenties when he broke with the Methodist there were eleven.” Church. The membership of the Despite protests from church leaders sect was drawn largely from rural Bank Street Road at the time was and certain citizens in the Glebe, people in the Ottawa Valley but a continuation of Bank Street a Brewers Retail Store was erected the headquarters was in Ottawa, in Ottawa, passing through on the former Annesley College site which oddly furnished very few the Township of Nepean in 1959. members. To outside observers, the until it reached Billings Bridge. services conducted by Bishop Horner One tangible reminder of the appeared to be very noisy affairs. “Quite a number of gentlemen’s Holiness Movement Church sect The act of prostration, which led residences were scattered along is the Ecclesiax Church on the to the unflattering name of “holy its whole length.” south-west corner of Fifth Avenue rollers”, was for Horner proof that and Monk Street. The red granite God was changing the seeker’s life cornerstone reads “Holiness from inside out. Movement Church Erected AD 1917, the year that Bishop Ralph 1900-1921”. The first building on In late 1908 the Holiness Movement Cecil Horner was deposed from the site was listed in City Directories Church occupied the vacant house the Holiness Movement Church, as a “Hornerite Meeting Hall”, and grounds at 910 Bank Street as the Institute ceased operation and a wooden structure built in 1900, an annex to their Holiness the building served briefly as a later known as the “Holiness Movement Institute, established at meeting hall. In 1918 it re-opened as Movement Church”. The present 482 Bank Street in the early 1900s. the “Holiness Movement College” Church building dating from 1921, The 1912 Insurance Plan shows the and in 1925 it adopted the simpler is a brick clad timber structure, house at 910 Bank Street as well as “Annesley College” name, in likely incorporating the original the Hornerite Church nearby on honour of Susannah Annesley, hall. It has a starkly modern addition the corner of Mutchmor (now mother of John and Charles Wesley, to the west, completed in 1950. Fifth Avenue) and Monk. the founders of the Methodist The Holiness Movement Church The former Mutchmor home movement. The Holiness Movement joined the Free Methodist Church “Abbotsford” is now the Protestant Church appears to have run into in 1959. Home for the Aged. financial difficulties in the mid- 1930’s. The College closed in 1949 In 1914 the Holiness Movement Ken Elder is a post card collector, a and the building was torn down Church focussed their teaching heritage architect and a Heritage shortly after. activities at 910 Bank Street. In Ottawa Board member. 4 Demolition of McMurtry Tannery Warns of Endangered Heritage in Rural Wards By Bruce Elliott This article is edited and condensed Planning Department has not had expense and moved back in 2007 to from an article by Dr. Elliott published the time to investigate the rural areas accommodate road widening. Further in the Horaceville Herald (vol.61, thoroughly and suggest properties for to the south, City of Ottawa heritage 2013) designation. The McMurtry tannery staff in recent years also negotiated location still appeared to be distant retention of the Thomas Richardson Notice of the pending demolition from local development pressures, house at 1165 Richardson Side Road, of the McMurtry Tannery located at but as events have proved that did but it has been gutted back to bare 1155 Second Line Road in October not remove it from danger. As walls, and several years on it still sits 2013 led to the discovery by heritage suburban development pushes further unfinished on a fragment of its once advocates that that this building was into old March the need to identify picturesque site. not on the Heritage Reference List of buildings for possible designation is the City of Ottawa and that it could becoming pressing. Heritage Tools not be saved at that point. The tannery demolition follows Aside from formal designation, The Tannery had been in a ruinous upon the loss in recent years of the City of Ottawa maintains a state for as long as most people could several heritage buildings. The City Heritage Reference List of buildings remember, but it had important of Kanata proposed at one time to of historical or architectural interest. standing as a local landmark, and a make South March corners a heritage Inclusion on this list at least ensures reminder of the vanished hamlet of enclave with historic buildings at that a property is flagged to the Lewisville or “Whiskeytown” that all four corners. But the successive attention of the heritage planners. once occupied the intersection with demolition of the wooden Armstrong A recent statutory innovation is a the Old one concession store (1989), followed by the Savage Heritage Register. Demolition of west of South March corners. house (2006) and the Klondike Inn buildings on this list can be delayed (2010), left only the old McMurtry for up to 60 days to provide time for The old tannery building was built further investigation and possible for George McMurtry, a member general store, currently the March House spa. That building was saved designation, whereas demolition of the McMurtry family that in the permits normally issue within 10 days 1880s constructed the stone store at by the City of Ottawa at public South March that now houses the March House Spa. George McMurtry was listed in the census of 1852 as a boot and shoemaker and in the 1861 census as owner of a stone building, possibly the tannery. He purchased the land from his father in May 1861 and the tannery is labelled as such on the Lewisville inset to the H.F. Walling county map of 1863.

Hopefully this incident will prove, as Judy Makin of the March Rural Community Assocation observed, “a lesson learned”. There are precious few heritage designations in March/ Kanata because a former Kanata mayor opposed them. And since the municipal amalgamation, the tiny heritage section within the City Flemming David Photo: 5 of application. The heritage planners twenty years, and this in a rural area consulted the Reference List when Hopefully this incident will prove, with very much less urban intrusion the request for a demolition permit as Judy Makin of the March Rural than in March-Kanata. was filed for the McMurtry Tannery, Community Assocation observed, because the stone building was It would be salutary if local community “a lesson learned”. There are obviously old, but finding no listing associations or other volunteers could for it, there was no information precious few heritage designations undertake an update of the NCC immediately available to justify their in March/Kanata because a former listing for South March/Kanata as intervention. Kanata mayor opposed them. Huntley did, with the goal of updating the City’s Heritage Reference List. The Heritage Reference List was a Anyone interested in assisting with such creation of the old City of Ottawa, In the 1970s the former National a project is urged to contact Pinhey’s and before 2001 did not extend Capital Commission heritage section Point Foundation President and March to the other pre-amalgamation compiled a heritage inventory of Township heritage keeper, Michele municipalities. There are Heritage structures of potential historical LeBoldus at 613 832-1249. Reference Lists for the March wards, and architectural interest in the but as noted, the three heritage rural municipalities, including the Heritage Ottawa in 2008 instituted planners in the City Planning locations of all log structures and a network of “heritage keepers” on Department have precious little incorporating the oft-neglected whom they depend for advance time to be pro-active and they outbuildings. Huntley Township notice of properties under threat. depend upon community input to Historical Society volunteers took the The keepers also serve as liaisons with update the list and undertake further list of 683 structures for that former the community associations, and their documentation. This has become a township, compiled in 1974 and number has now grown to 30. matter of some urgency in the rural updated to 1981, and compared what Dr. Bruce Elliott is the editor of the wards as suburban development survived on the ground in 2002. They Horaceville Herald, the newsletter proceeds apace. found a 24.5% per cent loss in just of the Pinhey’s Point Foundation.

Reminder Lecture Series Auditorium, News Now Cont’d. 120 2015 Gordon Cullingham Thursday, November 20, 14 of Canada, and a winner of the Commemorative Medal of the Research & Publication The East Block: Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002. Grant An Exemplary Example of 7:00 pm Deadline November 1, 2014 High Victorian Gothic Heritage Ottawa invites applications Speaker: Jacqueline Hucker is a for the Gordon Cullingham Research local architectural historian, and and Publication Grant named in worked for Parks Canada and in honour of the late Gordon Cullingham, the Federal Heritage Buildings journalist, broadcaster, editor and Review Office. heritage activist. The yearly maximum individual grant 7:00 pm will not exceed $1,000 for research and $2,000 towards the cost of publication. Wednesday, December 10, 14 Art or Selfie? Canadian Jones Danielle Photo: Application forms can be downloaded First lecture in the 2014-2015 series: from the Heritage Ottawa website Portraits High and Low www.heritageottawa.org or obtained Timothy Brittain-Catlin spoke at by calling 613-230-8841. Speaker: Dr. Lilly Koltun was a St. Alban’s Church about the residential founder of the Portrait Gallery architecture of A.W.N. Pugin.

6 From the President By Leslie Maitland

Heritage Sub-Committee (BHSC). how to better communicate with our Currently, this committee is only members. Many of you have told us mandated to review those items that that you would prefer to receive an would fall under the Ontario Heritage electronic version of our Newsletter Act; but there is so much more to rather than a paper copy in the mail. heritage in Ottawa than that! Many We shall be making it easier to applications under the Planning Act renew your membership and to impact heritage overlays or changes to donate to Heritage Ottawa on-line buildings on the Heritage Reference and will be making better use of our List. Both LACAC and the Ottawa Facebook and Twitter feeds to keep Built Heritage Advisory Committee membership up-to-date on activities (the predecessors of the BHSC) were between the issues of our Newsletter. empowered to review and comment Stay tuned.... on these applications. The BHSC is the voice of heritage at City Hall, and we Departure from the Board Welcome to need to hear them on these other issues. the Fall / Winter We are sorry to see the departure Season of Getting Organised of Laurie Smith from the board of If you haven’t peeked at our website Heritage Ottawa, but we would Heritage Ottawa! lately, I encourage you to do so. like to congratulate her on her Over the summer our major project appointment to the Conservation Get Out and Vote! has been revamping our website so Review Board of Ontario. Laurie contributed significantly on several By the time you get this, the that it is easier for you to navigate, easier for us to manage, and more fronts, keeping us abreast of municipal election campaign will activities in Ottawa East, such as the be well underway. Heritage Ottawa responsive to the needs of heritage in Ottawa. Take a look and let Brantwood Gates, and helping us is a non-partisan, not-for-profit navigate the re-filing of our letters of organization and as such we do us know what you think. Along with revamping our website, at incorporation under the new Canada not endorse candidates nor score Not-for-Profit Corporations Act. them; they can make their own heritageottawa.org, one of our flagship tools of communication, We know she’ll bring her thorough case for their support of heritage knowledge of heritage to the in Ottawa, and I am sure they will. we have also updated our membership database. Our warm thanks go CRB’s deliberations and we wish If you have the opportunity to her well. meet candidates, please ask them to Danielle Jones for overseeing the work with our consultants, about heritage issues and decide for Lectures yourselves what you think. But do Webkitchen. Peter Holdsworth get out and vote! volunteered to ensure that all our published newsletters are available. The lecture series has been finalized, and there is an excellent suite of Next Term of Council For our updated membership database, we thank David Flemming, lectures coming your way. We are Also at the AGM our board of Past President, and Joan Bard Miller, always interested in your suggestions Heritage Ottawa looks forward Heritage Consultant. The website is a for walks and lectures. to working with the new Council work in progress, so check back often. over the next four year period. One feature of the management of Membership Leslie Maitland heritage at City Hall that we hope to President, Heritage Ottawa / see changed at the next governance With the completion of our new Patrimoine Ottawa review is the Mandate of the Built website, we shall next be reviewing

7 Heritage is alive and well in the minds of young scholars By Laurie Brady

With the new school year upon us, I’d of Architecture, to attend the annual student essay for her study of the like to update members on recent and Ontario Heritage Conference. Plant and Champagne Baths. upcoming initiatives to engage young Zeynep’s summary of his experience scholars in matters of local heritage. is featured below. Finally, congratulations to our Heritage Ottawa volunteers who Leslie Maitland and I served as judges Also in May, a large contingent of graduated with Master of Arts degrees at Fielding Drive Public School’s students, alumni from Carleton University in June: History Fair and the Ottawa Regional and faculty presented at the Society for Shari Rutherford (Canadian Studies) Heritage Fair last spring at the the Study of Architecture in Canada and Caitlin Charbonneau Canadian Museum of History. The annual conference May 28 – 31 (Art History). ORHF is open to student participants in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in grades 4 to 9, from First Nations, including Hagit Hadaya who If you are a student or emerging public, separate and private spoke about Maritime synagogue professional member of Heritage schools who compete for the best architecture. Two of the presenters Ottawa, and would like to help presentation on significant Canadian will share their research as part of our organize future events, such as events, persons or places. We are fall lecture series, “Emerging Scholars networking opportunities, field trips, currently working on establishing and Ottawa Architecture,” on or socials, please let me know, at a Heritage Ottawa Prize for best Tuesday, October 14, 2014. Caitlin [email protected] presentation on built heritage for Charbonneau studied adaptive reuse Laurie Brady is the Student/Emerging next year’s event. of abandoned churches, featuring Professionals Member of the Board Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, In May, Heritage Ottawa sponsored of Heritage Ottawa, and a doctoral Lowertown. Meredith Stewart won student in Canadian Studies at Zeynep Ekim, a new student in the Martin Eli Weil Prize for best Carleton University’s Azrieli School Carleton University.

Supporting the Next Generation of Heritage Professionals

Heritage Ottawa offers to pay the inspiring. It not only gave me the only one for each session. Speakers registration for one Ottawa student chance to expand my knowledge in covered a wide range of topics that to attend the Ontario Heritage heritage conservation with a plethora are related to the challenges that Conference each year. The following of practical information, but it was heritage professionals are facing today, is adapted from the report prepared also a great and fun opportunity such as building code requirements, by Zeynep Ekim, this year’s to meet and network with many accessibility, documentation and sponsored student. experts in the field. The conference financial incentives. I was particularly started with a keynote lecture by fascinated by Dena Doroszenko’s First of all, I would like to extend my Dr. Avi Friedman about brownfield presentation on non-destructive deepest appreciation and gratitude for revitalization and the importance of techniques for archeological awarding me with generous funding community involvement in heritage investigations. to attend the Ontario Heritage preservation projects. The local Conference that took place on May Cotton Mills Redevelopment project There were also demonstrations 23-25, 2014 in Cornwall, Ontario. which aims to adaptively reuse this of window trim work repair and industrial site and create a mixed-use masonry repointing by students and As both an intern at E.R.A. district was very exciting to learn instructors of Algonquin College. Architects and an incoming about and experience in person. Both workshops were very hands-on Masters of Architecture student at and informative about the craft and Carleton University, I found that the There was no shortage of choices for skills required for restoration arts. conference was very informative and lectures; it was very difficult to choose

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