Gladstone Avenue is a street in Ottawa running east from the Rideau Canal west to Parkdale Avenue . It is a historically residential street running just south of the downtown core, with a number of small houses in the downtown section now converted to commercial uses. The local pronunciation is phonetic, unlike that of William Ewart Gladstone 's surname.
7-686: When laid out in the 1800s, the street was named Ann Street, after the wife of Thomas McKay . From 1896 until 1907, the Ottawa Hockey Club , commonly known as the Silver Seven , Stanley Cup winner, played its games at the Dey's Skating Rink at Bay Street and Gladstone. Prince George himself cut the ribbon to open Connaught Public School in 1913. In the 2000s, the street was modified to provide two lanes of traffic, bicycle lanes and traffic calming measures between Bronson Avenue and Bank Street. In May 2005,
14-785: A skilled stonemason . He emigrated to the Canadas in 1817, and settled in Montreal . He became partners with John Redpath and their firm did the masonry work on the Lachine Canal near Montreal, they then went on to build the locks on the lower section of the Rideau Canal , between the Rideau River and the Ottawa River at Bytown . McKay also built two stone spans for the Union Bridge, which
21-638: The Salus Millennium House for the Homeless, located on Gladstone Avenue in Ottawa, was destroyed by fire. This Ontario road-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Thomas McKay Thomas McKay (1 September 1792 – 9 October 1855) was a Canadian businessman who was one of the founders of the city of Ottawa, Ontario . McKay was born in Perth, Scotland and became
28-492: The intersection of the Rideau River and Ottawa River and laid out a town, which he named New Edinburgh . McKay built a sawmill and a gristmill on land there. He encouraged Scottish immigrants to come to the area and it became a prosperous industrial centre. He was an Elder and Trustee of St. Andrew's congregation of the Church of Scotland , and partly responsible for the acquisition of The Glebe lands for St Andrew's. He
35-594: The village of Rockcliffe Park . McKay also brought the first railroad to the Ottawa area with the Prescott and Bytown Railway that had its terminus at a station near Sussex Drive just south of New Edinburgh. McKay entered politics serving on Bytown's city council, and then the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1834 to 1841. From 1841 until his death in 1855, he served on the Legislative Council of
42-536: Was also a founding trustee of Queen's College . Thomas McKay became quite wealthy and in 1837 he bought 1100 acres (4.5 km ) east of the village. On the western edge of this new land he built in 1838 for himself a limestone Scottish Regency mansion which he named Rideau Hall , and which is today official residence of the Governor General of Canada . He also built Earnscliffe to house his daughter and son-in-law. The remainder of McKay's lands later became
49-618: Was the first bridge across the Ottawa River between Hull, Quebec and Bytown. The Commissariat building built by McKay in 1827 during the construction of the Rideau Canal now serves as home to the Bytown Museum and is the oldest surviving stone building in the city of Ottawa . McKay was one of the few business leaders to remain in Bytown after the canal project was finished. He bought land at
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