Old World Ottawa: 200+ Unique Images of Canada’s Capital, Parliament, Rideau Canal, Vaults, Lumber
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Today we will look at over 200 unique Old World images of Ottawa.
Ottawa, according to the current narrative, was first settled by European settlers in 1800. In roughly 1826, following the commencement of construction on the oldest continually operating canal in North America (which is still going strong), the area was named “Bytown”.
The area was renamed “Ottawa” in the 1850’s, the name chosen from the river on which the small town sat. A small lumber boom occurred shortly afterwards.
In 1857, Queen Victoria picked Ottawa as the new capital for Canada (for a variety of reasons which we will discuss in the video), and construction began on the immense buildings all around the city, including the Parliament Building.
Today we will look at over 200 photographs of Ottawa which will help illustrate and expand on the current narrative, while hopefully sparking your ideas and curiosity over the area at the time (1860’s-1930’s).
Thanks for being here. I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments about Old World Ottawa down below!
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My family goes back to 1610, in the Ottawa/Montreal area. Thank you for this lovely presentation.
Blessings to everyone who reads this and especially the gentleman who made this interesting video
God Bless 🙏✝️
Blessings to you too, brother!
Wow, this is my city. Born and raised and still here today. Some images i can recognize, some i cant. How i would love to step back in time, even for a day.
I lived in Ottawa 1950-57 & remember the streetcars running out to Britannia Beach. The fare was 7 cents for adults.. I miss the Old Union Station next to the Chateau Laurier. Took 'The Canadian' dome train from there to Vancouver in 1964. Thanks for video.
When I was really young the train station was still there, just before they shut it down. There was a gogo club across the street, where the Rideau Centre is now. A friend of mine and I watched them blast the rock to make the foundations of the Rideau Centre, we could climb to the top of the multi-level parking lot and watch them from up there. I wish Ottawa had followed its city plan instead of getting rid of it.
like every city at the time - super advanced buildings but mud streets....Been to Ottawa more times than I can count. Was just there a couple weekends ago - the buildings are incredible. Same with Quebec City. I live near Niagara Falls - so many secrets at the falls too!
cant even build a cobble footpath. but 30ft building yes. sir.
like the tunnels under the Falls! ;)
@@paulmidd5523 When the streets were full of horses, pavement made little difference --- the streets would fill up with mud and horse dung, even if there were cobblestones underneath. Cities spent fortunes shovelling up and disposing of horse poop. Paving with cobblestones or macadam was extremely expensive, and confined to wealthy parts of cities. City streets were cleaned up when the horses disappeared. The arrival of cheap automobiles and asphalt pavement in the 1920s changed everything.
Forget the pyramids...How did they build these gigantic castle looking libraries? They were built less than two century's ago. But no one can build like that in modern times. The vast amount of photographic proof that these miracle construction existed, tells me that it was a well known easy building technique known to many people at that time. Amazing!
Bravo,thank you for wake people up in such gentle manner,bless from south Italy.
Wow. I've been asking these very questions lately as evidenced by my Facebook page. Good for you!!! This is amazing!!!
Hey, great video! I've lived in Ottawa all my life (50 years) and have become quite knowledgeable about Ottawa's history. I need to correct you on the existence of the fort before the Parliament buildings were built. There was plans drawn up for a fort on the hill but it was never built. There was a barracks for the soldiers who helped in the building of the canal, as well as a small field hospital.
The site is home to an ancient star fort. There are thousands all over earth….you can see them on Google Earth.
The old post office tunnel, you mention was used as a canal entrance for Canada Post, mail use to come up the Rideau Canal!
"The Tartarians left their mark from the Basques of Spain the Cathars of Europe the Samurai of Japan or the Mi kmac and Acadians of eastern north America.All these people have been driven from their homes and or murdered over the last centuries"These were all the same people with different names.www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Tartarian-Empire-hidden-from-history-teachings
Thank you for this video. I was searching for this information and I am grateful for your excellent video. I'm going out this weekend to suss out anything I can find to compare to your video.
I did security for that lone surviving library during renovations years ago, crazy amount of history in there. The huge paintings in the commons are insane.
Some of the stuff in there was gotten out in the 1916 fire before it burned.
Your work is one of very few that deserve a re watch at least one more time. Thank you for this
Thank you Ben. I’m glad you enjoy the different things I uncover. I appreciate that
Does no one find it impossible to build a canal 126 miles long in the year 1825 to 1832, when the steam shovel had yet to be invented till 1835, which meant it was dug by hand, and this was done in just 7 years? The Winnipeg floodway is 26 miles long and was completed in 6 years from 1962 to 1968 and with the use of modern equipment and was considered the largest earth moving project since the Panama Canal. Makes as much sense as the Erie Canal which was built in 1817 to 1825, is 363 miles long and also was dug by hand with no power tools or steam shovels , as again they were not invented. Something stinks in Denmark for sure.
Too bad that the bricks and stones were flammable
In those days
Still are 😉
Yeah in the olden days they were old-fashioned😅
You mean like Notre-Dame de Paris !
Jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams
For the inner works and roofs, yes. Unless the fire was left raging for very long, then it comsumes everything. But assuming the outer walls still stood, it was a decision made on a "what can I make or save money with faster" basis.
You are amazing who share these photos, thank you.
"The Tartarians left their mark from the Basques of Spain the Cathars of Europe the Samurai of Japan or the Mi kmac and Acadians of eastern north America.All these people have been driven from their homes and or murdered over the last centuries"These were all the same people with different names.www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Tartarian-Empire-hidden-from-history-teachings
The Library has been commemorated on the 1976 silver dollar and the Parliament building on the 1939 silver dollar. The Library is my favorite structure.
The Parliament building is made from the cement that never decays.. they haven't been able to replicate.
That type of cement hasn't existed since 1500s according to the narrative.
(while you are looking at old pics.. try to notice very lightly exposed blimps in the sky.)
The tech to photoshop was holding a red filter over the part you wanted to erase during the exposure, doesn't filter it all, see the outline)
@Corey Bakers Entertainment Channel, actually, the Parliament Buildings are made of Nepean Sandstone, not granite.
"The Tartarians left their mark from the Basques of Spain the Cathars of Europe the Samurai of Japan or the Mi kmac and Acadians of eastern north America.All these people have been driven from their homes and or murdered over the last centuries"These were all the same people with different names.www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Tartarian-Empire-hidden-from-history-teachings
I just found this so cool. You have done such a great job, so incredible. I am stoked and mesmerized. Thank You.
You showed my old apartment at 13:40. We still do ice sculpture in the winter. The tunnels reach across the whole city as far as the central experimental farm. Miles and miles of tunnels that pop out everywhere.
I was in them to do repairs some of them have golf cart to go from downtown to green belt
@@101startingI’ve lived in Ottawa all my life and never knew that!
This is just a breath taking information. Thank you for your work.
The library is older than the rest of the current Parliament buildings only because it was the only surviving building from the fire that destroyed the 1st Parliament building, the library was constructed 1st , but was part of the plan for the 1st set of buildings.
The Parliamentary Library was constructed together with the original Centre Block and in the same style. It was saved from the fire that destroyed the Centre Block in 1916. The set of connecting doors were fireproof and it alone remained of the massive Centre Block. The surrounding East and West Blocks were constructed in the same style and just after the Centre Block.
Fun fact... new Zealand sent lumber to help repairs after the fire. Obviously we have a ton of trees in Ottawa... so the lumber that was donated became apart of a desinated meeting room called the new Zealand room, since it was super kind of New Zealand to help us :)
Constructed eh? By who?
This is become one of my favorite channels, thank you
Fire brought down a concrete and steel building
In 2001 . Sometime around September
We all know it was really interesting how that actually happened.
I’m happy to see these comments.. good sign
The exterior is stone, no steel. interiors are all carved wood, no steel. It’s no mystery. I live in Ottawa and my ancestors going back before Ottawa was our Capital. Before the City was built up, all the buildings and houses were made of wood. Ottawa was a lumber town. There were barracks of sorts made for the men and families who worked on the parliament buildings all made of wood. It was a small town then. Unfortunately fires were common when every building is made of wood. The round library was saved, but centre block was destroyed and rebuilt.
It always amazes me what a few people with copper chisels and a little knowhow can get done. But I'm sure they were exhausted after finishing all that so quickly. No wonder they just decided to use mud for all the streets. Big time saver.
Incredible video thank you so much for your hard work. I did not know a whole lot about Ottawa certainly in mid 1800's really interesting to see what Ottawa was back then and what it is Today. Cheers i will be sharing this video for sure.
The mud roads amid built out cities are always a giveaway...
I’ve been to the Parliament Building in both Ottawa AND London. This was years before I became awakened yet I remember being in absolute awe of the architecture and the complexities of having it actually built was mind boggling to me. Now it’s making sense why I was so in awe of them way back then. My soul knew there was something beyond man who could have created and built such out of place buildings of that size and intricacies.
I just want to know our true history and timeline. 😢
The original Centre Block commenced construction only about three years after the Houses of Parliament in London were openned, and the Peace Tower of the newer building was finished in 1927 for Canada`s 160th anniversary celebrations,
and I knew one of the men who worked on it as a young Scottish Canadian stonemason.
There is no crazy tartarian mud flood nonsense conspiracy to how these buildings were constructed. Old world stuff was better because their wasn't all the safety regulations for workers. No corporations producing cheap garbage yet. Economic pressures of today disallow the time and money needed to build such beautiful intricut structures. Machine and industry made hand tool craftsmen disappear. Tradesmen today can't compare to those of the past. A very long list of factors could be made beyond what I mentioned.
Damn you put a lot of work on this video. Great stuff!
I live Ottawa thank you for the information
Jarid, I enjoy your presentations. They are well paced and you give good commentary and ask good questions without too much speculation as to the why and how of it all.
Your interest seems to be architecturally centered, however I would like to suggest an area of inquiry that I have not seen anyone cover. This is the accounting of the development of musical instruments. To me there is no accounting for the sophistication of musical instruments. They tell us that the mechanical complexity of devices like pipe organs, piano, saxophone, trombone, etc were created by the same downtrodden ill equipped people that they say built all the other impossible architectural, sculpture and paintings of antiquity. And consider some of the music allegedly produced by individuals. How is it that we have alleged geniuses of the past like Mozart and Beethoven but nothing since. Yes we have clever and original songs but know one alive or in memory has produced anything like what Beethoven did. Do we really think one man could create this kind of complicated art? More likely they were created by the same race of advanced beings that built the advanced architecture.
I agree 👍🏻 your comment reminds me about that I saw somewhere that swords aren't what they tell is either. They probably were weapons but one that is electrical actually
Great video! It was a lot nicer back then than it is now!! 1:45 Looks like Deschenes rapids across the river in Aylmer. 20:14 was a barn I believe for all the horses.
Such a nice city, Thanks for the history
Those tunnels were for the Trains. Grand Union Station was across the Chateau Laurier which also had train tunnels. Also tunnels were also built connecting all the Government buildings at the time.
Love these photographs
The building at 17:08 is the _old_ post-office. It was demolished starting in 1937 to clear what is now Confederation Square for the National War Memorial. The old post- office (the one in the video) was against the Rideau canal (for mail transit via boat) and at 17:12 you can actually see the lip of the canal and the tunnel to the locks. All of this would have been demolished including the "vaults" as you can see on the Wikipedia page for "Confederation Square. Look at the August 31, 1938 photo.
According to wikipedia? Like that is going to give any credibility to the stupid narrative they sell as facts.
5:49 The only construction going on there is digging out a road.
7:59 There too.
Enjoyed this very much, well presented.
Excellent video, J B
31:40 That "Eye of Horus"/"Eye of Providence" is definitely photoshopped in; At 39:33 you can see the _exact same building_ as it *really* looked.
Can confirm no eye was ever on the Peace Tower
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Yes, it's also called that, so I have edited the comment.
There’s a clock there and one is also present in the new post-fire version of what we call the Peace Tower.
The tunnels still exist, I remember seeing them re-exposed at one point during a construction project downtown around 20 years ago. When they updated the Laurier Avenue Bridge if I remember the construction project correctly is when I saw the tunnels exposed.
Yes sir I would like to confirm you that the underground are still existing and there is an access beside the Rideau Canal
At 16:09 the building was the train station and is now a conference centre. Its really beautiful inside. Ive lived in Ottawa since i was born and a lot of the old buildings are still there
If only they made it an O-Train station!
It now houses the Senate while they renovate the Centre Block on Parliament Hill.
2:10 This is not phrygian cap, this is a tuque. This is a French-Canadian symbol as seen in the patriot flag.
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Baltimore, where I live, was an old world city that “burnt down”.
"The Tartarians left their mark from the Basques of Spain the Cathars of Europe the Samurai of Japan or the Mi kmac and Acadians of eastern north America.All these people have been driven from their homes and or murdered over the last centuries"These were all the same people with different names.www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Tartarian-Empire-hidden-from-history-teachings
Had to say more, how fantastically grand, beautiful & massive they were, just doesn't fit the story,they must be hundreds of years older cheers from south Oz, keep up the great work
It strikes me that an important detail for differentiating between old world/contemporary construction may be the windows. I don't put it past the original builders to have had glass; but the buildings I'm most convinced were pre-existing often have openings that from their shapes don't look like they were necessarily built for glass.
I live in Ottawa and often go on my own adventures finding these old buildings that are literally ALL over the downtown portion of the city blended in with all the new structures. Really amazing that so many are still standing and house regular new businesses. In fact one of the buildings shown most here is one in centre town which is now one of Ottawa’s most known strip clubs ( barefax) you would never know it’s actually A building from the 1800’s with so much history
Barefax, you just had to mention that didn`t you. :P
@@scotti.6433 obviously lol
Also wanted to add that the fire of 1916 was contained to just the center block of the Parliament buildings. The photographs of the Library by itself were after the fire and the old center block were torn down to remake the new center block and Peace Tower. The original tower did not have the eye of Horus on it. Lastly, the vaults under the old post office were just vaults. No tunnels under there. There was a tunnel from Union Station that went under a road to the Chateau Laurier.
Crazy cool pictures
Thank you very much! This is excellent work, including the quality of your narration.
Appreciate your work, thanks for sharing
"The Tartarians left their mark from the Basques of Spain the Cathars of Europe the Samurai of Japan or the Mi kmac and Acadians of eastern north America.All these people have been driven from their homes and or murdered over the last centuries"These were all the same people with different names.www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Tartarian-Empire-hidden-from-history-teachings
3:13 Oldest operating canal in existence, gravy !!
@Jeppo Jinx ; So we wait ???
Let’s not glaze over the fact that those canals were somehow carved laser strait through the Great Canadian Shield. Mostly impenetrable with today’s tech. Just saying
@@namarmain1462, no, not true, what became the Rideau Canal was mostly swamp in what is known geographically as the St. Lawrence Lowlands, whereas, the Pre-Cambrian Shield ends on the south by the Gatineau Hills and Eardley Escarpment.
Love the power poles and dirt roads!! Power poles everywhere already!! Whoo hoo!!
On the Alberta prairie my father was born in 1955 and his parents built their new house. This house finally had power and a coal burner in the basement to heat the house. This house had a basement, the main floor and a second floor for the children’s bedrooms. They didn’t get a indoor bathroom until my dad was 15. That would have been about 1970! When I was a child they were still burning coal to heat the house and up until I was 10 they had the old wood cook stove in the kitchen being used. My dad grew up on a farm.
I’d love to know how Ottawa had power in the 1800’s yet Alberta still has coal heated homes 🤷♀️ technology!
@@lumberjackinit6450 ; Same here for me in the USA good ole outhouse wood burning cook stove and coal stove for heat up until mid 60's or close to the time of the moon landing 😂😂🤣
@@lumberjackinit6450 because we’re dope and we do dope shit
@@lumberjackinit6450, Ottawa was the first electrically lit city in Canada because a hydro dam was built at the Chaudiere Falls to power the lumber mills, of which there were many, and one of the two gentlemen who owned it was also an inventor creating such things as the first all elelectrically cooked meal, the electric iron, the first electrically heated street trams, and the Ottawa Electric Railway from which evolved a streetcar manufacturing company that during the war manufactured airframe parts. Also, the Parliament Buildings were wired and electrically lit a full eight years before the White House had electricity, and Ottawa Hydro continues to use the dam for power generation for the city.
Very interesting, well done video. I enjoyed it very much. Thanks!
To all the people saying there was never a star fort are wrong, it shows up on older illustrations as a small four-cornered structure on the western flank of what became known as Barrack Hill. And the choice of Ottawa as the capital was not just because it had a fort there as the author has said, more specifically, the choice was decided upon because it was inland from vulnerable attack by the Americans unlike the cities of Toronto, Montreal, and Kingston, and the Rideau Canal was built as a military canal for this purpose since it connected with Kingston on the south and Montreal on the east through the Ottawa River and Grenville Canal downstream.
In my non professional opinion the limited of photos that shows some type of construction appears to be a clean up job and how come the most of the streets look unpaved or just dirt wouldn't they want to make that just as magnificent as the buildings??
I'm a new subscriber, great channel!! It's so interesting how so many cities in the world have incredibly massive underground portions of their entire above ground structures. Like the post office in Ottawa. And not just the post office, but all of the surrounding buildings also started out several floors below what is visible today. What happened that all of that space had to covered up, and covered over??
So many mudflooded buildings in the photos, one wonders how most never noticed until recently that there were windows sinking into the ground and never to question the narrative, all very strange!
It gets really cold during winters here, so the ground freezes down to several foot. You thus have to dig below freeze level to set the building foundations. This creates at least one under the ground level. We put windows to have light in those basement rooms.
Wow didn’t know they first built an ice castle in Ottawa.
I’m not up to date on this but 10 years ago they’d have one every year during the “Québec Carnival”
Although it was “Hotel” instead of castle. Which is French for “Hôtel”🤗🤧🥶 (actually maybe we called it that cause that’s what it was literally; overnight room rentals and all). It coincided with the yearly international minor hockey leagues Tournament. Which is why I remember this, it seemed surreal to me.
Unreal pictures 👍🏽✨… you like this stuff as much as me 😀
It's so crazy to watch this video while living only a couple blocks away from the parliament!
Awesome show
Thanks for putting this together and sharing Jared. I haven't seen some of these photos yet - and I lived here in Ottawa 55 yrs.
That big-ass fire in 1900 started across the river in Hull. Cause was a chimney fire. It spread to other houses and some sparks flew across the river into the Ottawa lumber mill. Exciting times!
Wow!
Yes, the tunnels still exsits. They run all thru downtown and go from the PM residence all the way to the Deifenbunker. Most of the Old time building has an access including the Chateau Laurier Hotel. You can't visit them. It is use for security purposes.
Be assured there is no tunnel between the Residence of the Prime Minister and the Diefenbunker.
Great vid... thank you for your content!!
Great presentation man! People need to look with eyes open, before it's too late! Thanks man!
absolutely amazing
Weird how fire destroys all these old buildings, that are made of stone....
Bro, you always have the coolest music in all your pic transitions. Great work from another video producer!
Gotta say this is WELL DONE
Amazing
D.n.d. have a full understanding and use of the tunnel network under the capital that the public can not access
Great video, thanks Jarid
I have been thinking lately that maybe the buildings are round because only the tops of the buildings are above ground and they possibly go way farther down and the buildings were just that much bigger before they were covered ??!!
20:13 That building is called the Aberdeen pavilion and it’s still here. These pictures are great but your uneducated narration is not.
I am surprised that you did not mention or show the Connaught Building on MacKenzie Ave. right beside the Chateau Laurier. The building was completed in 1915 and first used as the Customs Examining Warehouse by the Canada Customs. And you also didn't mention that there was actually a tunnel that ran underground from the Union Station to the Chateau Laurier under Wellington. When the Union Station became the Conference Centre, I remember going in it a few times.
the last vestige of "Chicago Architecture'
The original Peace Tower looked so much more beautiful and interesting!
Wow 🙂Thank you 🙏
Beautiful work!
Thank you!
They must’ve found Ottawa in the middle of a forest and logged all of the forest out of the inside of the city…
That's what I'm wondering! There was an article written in 1858 in the USA and it was all about "ancient" buildings found all over the Americas! It said some of the ruins were overrun with forests and brush! It furthermore said that some of the "found" cities rivaled the beauty of Thebes!
That was enlightening many thanks
Since I have started to learn about the world, I had questions. As time went by, the questions piled up. The answers, on the other hand are yet to be found.
To me the amazing library looks like the top of a much taller building. It looks like mankind understood how to build cities people would actually love to live in, unlike today. It's highly unlikely that we'll know the truth anyway. What a waste!
I think the truth is out there nobody is paying attention Read Enoch men of renown built all of these Wonderful building I am pretty sure of it
@@PapaJoFixIt And I am getting too tired to argue, too! I have tried to share this with a few family members and they are not making the connection. Yes, Enoch is awesome and answers so many questions.
@@PapaJoFixIt
Gen 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he ...... builded a city, ....... and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, ( sons ) Enoch. ( initiated )
Gen 4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; ......building cities ???
Thats one of those star fort cities from on my time line the 1000 years
Have you been to Ottawa? It has so many twists and turns. It feels like your transported back in time. Did not hear you comment on the fire that engulfed parliament and how the library was saved by closing the heavy metal doors.
The only thing that has changed in Ottawa is taxes we all pay to much today to make the government look good with our money
Before there were the parliament bldgs. There was the Crowley farmhouse.
It's Red roof can be found in the earliest photos.
(Related to Alister Crowley)
Ps. WOW !!!
That all seeing eye on the original Tower. Just saw that on my second watching. 👍
Roughly 30k subs in one year, well done👍🏻
🇨🇦🐢❤️🙌👏🏻 Great pics! Thanks for sharing.
That all-seeing eyes looks identical to the one on US dollars.
31:40 It's dang identical!!!
Because it is....
Because it is the one from the US dollar… unfortunately the video maker has been duped by an obvious photoshop. There are many images of the old Parliament bell tower where you can see there was no all seeing eye on it (e.g. 45:00) Not sure if Mr. Boosters is just making an Andy Kaufmanesque joke, but there was no clue that that might be the case. I can imagine some viewers taking it seriously. Great video otherwise though.
"The Tartarians left their mark from the Basques of Spain the Cathars of Europe the Samurai of Japan or the Mi kmac and Acadians of eastern north America.All these people have been driven from their homes and or murdered over the last centuries"These were all the same people with different names.www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Tartarian-Empire-hidden-from-history-teachings
the library was most likely a tool for sound . the flying buttresses are there to reinforce when resonance occurs. those walls must be round or it wouldn't work. very well could receive energy from above and or had a pipe organ once.
great video man. good intuition.
Well you are wrong on all counts but you have a great imagination !
the parliament building fire started in the building itself, It was not a part of a city wide fire. The parliamentary library was built at the same time as the original building. It survived the fire of 1916 and was incorporated into the current building
Born and raised in Ottawa... Mom and Dad recounted so much history that jars with the narrator thx and if you can explain how electricity was funneled in the ice castles?
Min 30:02 The roofs appear to be made of copper (see the colored photo). Is copper infrequently used because of copper conductivity for electricity?
Australia also has a history of locating it's weird capital city in a strange location....Canberra between the two largest cities, Melbourne and Sydney. Interesting parallel. I have a theory that some nations were began as Masonic projects (Australia, NZ, US, and Canada).
Your the best man. I love your show.
Andy
What is the oldest photograph of a bathroom you have found?
Great question. You won't find one in a structure built by someone who didn't need one.
Godbless
Hole Lotta Mudd flooding in those pictures! Jonlevi would have a field day! Thanks for your work!
Thanks for the video, people have to wake up to the true reality