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Neighbourhood Walk: Walkin’ Down Main Today we bring you the fourth in a series of neighbourhood photo essays by Spacing Ottawa contributor Christopher Ryan, as we take a stroll down Main Street. Be sure to check back to see where Chris visits next.
A long time coming, I had decided that Main Street was going to be the site of my next walk. In spite of its proximity to Ottawa’s core, Old Ottawa East seems to fly below the radar. As a street that is loaded with examples of so much of the city’s history, the walk down Main is one of my favourites. Although it was part of a much longer walk (I wound up at Elmvale), I have chosen to focus on Main, between Hawthorne and the bridge.
Article content On Saturday, Jim Watson will become the longest-serving mayor in the history of Ottawa, which officially began in 1855. The milestone will be greeted with pride â and, possibly, horror â politics being a fairly vicious enterprise and longevity the sure way to accumulate hordes of friends and enemies, sometimes the very same people. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Egan: The longest Worship â Watson to set mayoral record this week Back to video Watson, who also turns 60 this year, is remarkably like Stanley Lewis, the mayor (1936-48) being overtaken. Both masters of small talk, each criticized for having only modest civic visions, they began their careers as aldermen and were adept âretail politicians,â comfortable with paupers and kings.