Likely multiple breweries operated on Stirling's Wharf prior to Dominion, poss. including initial (short-lived) 1829 iteration of John Rochester Sr.'s brewery: www.ashleynewall.ca/2025/08/roch...

Good eye. That's got the look of a (tourist) tour boat to me, but either way, a ferry did indeed use the wharf around that spot for most of the 19th century (& indoobitably for a bit beyond)

In 1960, there was a boathouse in that zone (pic'd, lower right)

Funnily enough, my new article on Brading's was inspired by a podcast I did this summer on Paul Weber's Youtube. www.ashleynewall.ca/2025/09/brad...

The more of E.J. Lennox's work I see, the more I'm convinced he designed the Jarvis Bldg @ 103 Bay St., Toronto (pic. ca. 1913)

Sounds good!

Cheers, Toon! Writing about the Victoria Brewery (Part 1 of 2) + the Brading's beer train tunnel lately, I've learned a ton about Lebreton. I'm excited to finish Part 2 of the Victoria Brewery story, in which Mayor (& later MP) John Rochester Jr. gets into the lumber biz on the Flats.

Same location (Rideau St., a couple doors east of Union Stn, #Ottawa); Bowles Lunch, 1921. #colourized

Pic is from 1956

It's been pointed out on another platform that we can indeed see the head of a horse poking out from behind the tree stump

Full story (also edited for length since 1st published): www.ashleynewall.ca/2025/09/brad...

2) H. F. Brading & Co.'s "Union Brewery", and Lebreton Flats / lumber piling grounds, viewing north-westerly from Bronson's Hill aka Christ Church Hill, ca. 1875. [Photo by William Topley]

(Dominion Brewery ran from 1850s to 1880.)
Above pic a colour photo / not colourized

Full story of the Rochesters' (Victoria) Brewery here (article has been updated since 1st published): www.ashleynewall.ca/2025/08/roch...

Took me a sec - you're of course referring to the "50 mission cap"!

A classic (in my books), from 1944