Plaza Bridge
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The Plaza Bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is an automotive and pedestrian bridge that crosses the Rideau Canal just south of the Ottawa locks. It joins Wellington Street and Elgin Street in the Dow
1845 painting of the Rideau Canal, “Sappers’ Bridge, and Lower Town by Thomas Burrowes
Sappers Bridge and Dufferin Bridge c1890-1895 by Topley, William James
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Bytown
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Bytown is the former name of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was founded on September 26, 1826, incorporated as a town on January 1, 1850, and superseded by the incorporation of the City of Ottawa on Janu
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…the Canal. The eastern span is over a former railway tunnel running along the east bank of the Canal. Sappers Bridge was one of Ottawa's first bridges (Bytown at the time), built in 1827 over the Rideau Canal connecting Rideau Street in Lower Town with Upper Town. The bridge got its name from the builders…
Falls of the Rideau River, at the Ottawa River, 1826 by Thomas Burrowes
Western and Lesser Fall of the Rideau River; Barrack Hill and Upper Bytown in the left Distance, 1826 by Thomas Burrowes
Hull, (Lower Canada), on the Ottawa River; at the Chaudière Falls, 1830 by Thomas Burrowes
View at the West end of Wellington Street, Upper Bytown, looking east towards Lower Town in 1845 by Thomas Burrowes