1872

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Lumber piles, Ottawa, ON, 1872

  • -Tayasuune- said:
    The older residents would have still remembered it being called Bytown.
  • Mike Gifford said:
    That would have been just under the falls, right? Victoria Island perhaps? I'm an admin for a group called Chaudière Falls - Ottawa/Gatineau, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • R. D. Barry said:
    The photo was probably taken on Lebreton Flats, the centre of the lumbering industry in Ottawa and the major employer, even after the federal capital was established in Ottawa. It was called Bytown after Lt-Col John By who was in charge of the construction of the Rideau Canal from Ottawa to Kingston.

Mothers and their children standing outside a bark house, Gympie, ca. 1872

  • maria lia carolino said:
    Interessante!

John Scott

  • Pat Whamberly said:
    There seem to be a lot of grey-eyed people in this collection. I didn't even know it was a real eye color, I've never seen a driver's license describe someone as grey eyed, and I've carded people at big events. A European thing? Were they persecuted by the law?
  • Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:
    Grey eyes are now more commonly viewed as light blue/green colours, but they are perhaps more common in Europe then anywhere else. These criminals were convicted of a crime specified in section 20 of the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 and reported to the Secretary of State [Home Secretary] as being imprisoned in Newcastle Gaol between December 1871 - December 1873.
  • bensonklemme said:
    I think the eye color description is mistaken... It's more of a sepia color
  • laughinggirltwenty6 said:
    My mother (Scots-Irish heritage - born here in 1929) had grey eyes. No blue or green - just grey.
  • gwendolyn028 said:
    I put gray on my driver's license :)