5-653: Vimy House was a warehouse in the Centretown West neighbourhood of Ottawa , Ontario , Canada that was used to store the collections of the Canadian War Museum from 1983 to 2004. The building, originally known as Champagne Garage was built to house the streetcars of the Ottawa Electric Railway . After the railway's closure in 1959, the Ottawa Transportation Commission (and later
10-537: Is a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario , Canada. It lies to the west of Bronson Avenue , east of the O-Train Trillium Line , north of Carling Avenue , and south of Nanny Goat Hill , which is an escarpment to the north of Somerset Street West. To the east lies Centretown , to the north lies Lebreton Flats , to the west lies Hintonburg , and to the south lies Dow's Lake . Much of the neighbourhood makes up what
15-490: Is also called Dalhousie . Centretown West is composed largely of low-density residential commercial properties, and some light industrial uses. Somerset Street West is dominated by Chinese and Vietnamese businesses, and it is considered to be Ottawa's Chinatown . It also retains a large Italian-Canadian population in Little Italy centred on Preston Street , which is also called "Corso Italia". A portion of Gladstone Avenue
20-600: The Ottawa-Carleton Regional Transit Commission ) used the warehouse for storing their buses up until 1979. The building was later acquired by the Canadian War Museum to be used as a storage facility for its collections when its Sussex Drive facility ran out of space. The building, later renamed Vimy House, became filled with a vast array of aged military paraphernalia including the world's largest collection of Canadian war art. While items from
25-631: The Vimy House collection would occasionally be put on display at the museum itself, the public could also visit Vimy House on special open house days and tour its collection. The last open house was held on September 6, 2003. In 2004, the collections at Vimy House were moved into the new Canadian War Museum building at LeBreton Flats . The building was sold and renovated and is now a self storage facility. 45°24′34″N 75°43′02″W / 45.409475°N 75.717312°W / 45.409475; -75.717312 Centretown West Centretown West
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