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http://westboro.cjb.net/
An online database of historical and genealogical information
relating to the Westboro/Ottawa West (Nepean Township at one time)
area of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada has recently been created.
The website is helpful and informative for genealogical and
historical researchers, as well as members of the Westboro community
curious in learning more about the history of the neighborhood, or
perhaps to research more about the history of their family, house, or
street.
The website features:
- The completed transcription of the newly released 1911 Census
returns for Westboro, Ottawa West, Hintonburg and Mechanicsville and
the 1901 census returns for Westboro, Hintonburg and Mechanicsville
via the Automated Geneaology website. There are plans to soon add
links to the earlier census returns for these communities.
- Scanned pages of the Ottawa Directories for the following
communities, which prior to 1931 were considered to be suburbs of
Ottawa:
Nepean Township (most years from 1864-1886)
Richmond Road (most years from 1881-1890; from 1891-1898
this area was included as part of Hintonburg)
Mechanicsville (most years from 1888-1910; in 1898 this
area was included as part of Hintonburg)
Hintonburgh (most years from 1891-1899)
Manchesterville (1891 & 1893; After 1893, this area was
included as part of Hintonburg)
Ottawa West (1905, 1908, 1930)
Westboro (1924 & 1930)
*more pages will be added in the coming weeks
- Historical maps of the area:
Belden's Carleton County Atlas 1879 (several from this source)
1887 Map of McLeansville, Mechanicsville, Hintonburg
and Bayswater
1895 Map of Hintonburgh
1910 Advertising Map of the Clarella Park community
1915 Atlas of Canada (2nd Edition) Map of Hintonburg,
West Wellington and Champlain Park Communities
Current (2005) Map of the Westboro/Hintonburg communities
- Monthly column "More Than Just History..", written from 1999-2001
in Westboro's Newswest community paper. This column looked at many
historical aspects of the Westboro community. Additions to what the
site currently has posted may be done in the coming weeks.
- Historical Society of Ottawa 'Bytown Pamphlet Series' pamphlet from
1994 by Christina Newell, "Hintonburgh: A Working Class Streetcar
Suburb at the Turn of the Century".
- An ongoing collection of newspaper articles which appeared in the
Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Journal newspapers, relating to the
Westboro/Ottawa West community. Links will be added as articles are
found.
- Detailed information on the history of all the streets in these
communities - from the original land registry plans, original land
sales, street name changes, first residents, significant changes,
etc. will be added to the site in the near future.
- Miscellaneous historical information from The Nepean High School
Archive will soon be added. Nepean High School, located on Broadview
Avenue in Ottawa was built in 1923. Some photos and biographical
information from the 1927-1930 yearbooks, photographs and newspaper
articles from that era will be added. "The History of Nepean High
School" by William K. England, prepared for the N.H.S. 50th
Anniversary in 1972 will also soon be scanned and added to the site,
as well. The creator of the this website was a student at Nepean High
School in the 1990's and also helped to organize the school's 75th
Anniversary in 1998.
The plan is to continue to grow and develop the site, adding new
data, photos, documents, etc. every week. The web site itself, is
very technically basic at present. As information is added, the site
will be reconstructed to be more organized, and also more visually
appealing. For now, the goal of the site is to provide as much
information as quickly as possible, and to establish itself as the
source for all historical information relating to Westboro.
You are encouraged to contribute anything that you feel would be
beneficial to the site such as old documents, newspaper articles,
data, photos, etc.. There is also a message board for anyone wishing
to post comments, questions, suggestions, etc.
You can contact the creator of the site, Dave Allston at daveallston(a)rogers.com
Dave Allston has done extensive research into the history of the
various small communities in that area (Westboro, Champlain Park,
West Wellington, Hintonburg, Hampton Park, etc.) and even runs his
own small business, "HOUSTALGIA". If you are interested in having
home and property/"house history" research done by his company, there
is more information on the website.