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☎️🐕 Old newspaper articles can sometimes include important nonsense. #history #JFK
A front page story in the Ottawa Citizen dated 3 August 1961: “Dog-Gone Hot Call To JFK” (from the New York Herald Tribune)
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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At least five years.

At this point, the store has been running for four decades, and Eric Yardley had another antique shop in Quebec before that. And a career as a teacher. So he may want to finally retire now but antiques are a hard business these days, so who would buy his inventory now?
Ottawa Citizen article dated 10 March 2001 “He sells whosits & whatsits - Enter the Seussian world of collector Eric Yardley and you'll discover the organized chaos of antique armoires, tables and possibly the tail of a '58 Chevy. Jennifer Campbell reports.”
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Yardley’s Antiques has been an institution on Bank Street in Old Ottawa South since 1986. It’s been at its current spot, 1240 Bank (just south from Cameron Ave) near Trinity Anglican church since 1995. The building was built circa 1920. 🏢 #Ottawa #613history www.instagram.com/p/DR7QhyDkWn8/
Yardley’s Antiques at its current spot, 1240 Bank (just south from Cameron Ave) beside Trinity Anglican church.
December 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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So #CanadaPost has issued some wildlife themed stamps for the holiday season this Christmas. Naturally, I bought the rabbit and squirrel sets!
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Canada Post stamp sets of rabbits and squirrels celebrating the holidays with decorations. Canada Post stamp sets of rabbits and squirrels celebrating the holidays with decorations.
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Clean inside and out? #ENO

#OldPrintAds #History
A newspaper ad for “Eno’s Fruit Salt” in the Ottawa Citizen, dates 7 August 1930. The large headline text says “Gain Inner and Outer Cleanliness — “ Then there’s a photo of a women soaking in a bathtub, her shoulder and back visible. Slightly smaller text says “With the morning plunge and the daily dash of ENO” Longer, smaller text is below.
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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This days, Instagram and Facebook are just ridiculous. I can’t even see Glebe Report’s Instagram feed now. #Ottawa #OttawaGlebe www.instagram.com/glebereport
Glebe Report’s blocked Instagram page. https://www.instagram.com/glebereport
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Yes, Ottawa has two places named Central Park. One is in the Glebe, and one is just west of Merivale and north of Baseline. #Ottawa #CentralPark
A map of part of the Glebe showing Central Park, where Patterson Creek extended over a century ago. A map showing the Central Park neighbourhood of Merivale Rd and just north of Baseline Rd.
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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A wonderful squirrel at @highjinxottawa.bsky.social .
🐿️ #sqrlpix #Ottawa
A glass squirrel sculpture.
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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This is the war memorial cenotaph in Manotick, on the Rideau River south of Ottawa.
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#Ottawa #Manotick #RemembranceDay
“The Manotick Cenotaph was erected about 1962 by the Manotick Legion and the former Rideau Township.”
www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembran...
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Getting ready from #RemembranceDay on 11 November.
🇨🇦🌐☮️
#Ottawa
Ottawa’s War Memorial today at 11 am.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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There’s a pattern to the #Lansdowne2 vote.
#OttPoli #OttCity
Ottawa City Council Wards - Vote Map (2022-2026 term)
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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November is time for Hot Chocolate! ☕️ 🍫
#history #chocolate
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Ye Olden Time’s Olden Tyme.
#613history #history
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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“National” Bison Day, because Bison respect borders. 🦬 #BisonDay
Bison at Parc Omega in Quebec.
November 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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It’s #Halloween and now the Dodgers are really frightened of the #BooJays!
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#BlueJays #WeWantItAll
A carved Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin wearing a Blue Jays baseball cap.
October 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Who is ready for Halloween? 🎃
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Canada Geese know to leave when the weather goes below 0°C. #Ottawa
October 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Yes, I am aware that it is Squirrel Awareness Month.

🧈🐿️ #sqrlpix
Ottawa Citizen article dated 14 Oct 1933: “Scout News” Squirrels Benefit From St. Matthew's Rover Hike St. Matthew's Rover crew held a week-end camp recently along the Rideau river beyond Black Rapids. Rover Leader T. M. Brown and Senior Rover Mate R. P. Stewart were in charge. Exploration of the country in and around Padgett's creek proved most interesting, especially for those members of the crew who left parts of their nether garments behind on the barbed wire fences. Some of the members paddled to the site. The camp proved a great success, at least fo: the squirrels who made off with a pound of butter. At a recent business meeting of the crew a committee was elected for the purpose of undertaking the redecoration of the Rover den.
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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The Nightmare Before Christmas? Which was worse, fishing with dynamite, possible insurance fraud, or being “blown to atoms”?
#613history #Ottawa
Ottawa Citizen story dated 25 Dec 1897: DEATH OF JAMES SMITH. Insurance companies Insinuate He Was Not Blown to Atoms. Smith's Falls, Ont., Dee. 21.-An extraordinary rumor is in circulation to the effect that the late blowing up of James Robert Smith by an explosion of dynamite on the Rideau river did not take place. It will be remembered that some weeks ago the late Mr. Smith with two companions went fishing on the Rideau, intending to use dynamite to kill the fish. An explosion occurred, blowing Mr. Smith's body into so many fragments that it could not be identified. It is alleged that Mr. Smith carried a large life insurance, and the companies inter-ested, it is said, will not now pay over the insurance money owing to the inability of identifying the body. It is admitted that the explosion took place, but it is insinuated that it was some other substance than Mr. Smith's body that was blown up. This seems extraordinary, as Mr. Smith's two companions ought to be sufficient evidence to establish his identification. Perhaps it is a case of bulldozing on the part of the insurance companies.
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Yes, I am having Korma Flavour Potato Chips. #HappyDiwali
Korma flavoured potato chips package.
October 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Happy Diwali! 🪔
शुभ दीपावली
#Ottawa
Ottawa Hindu Temple this evening, Diwali, with a crowd lined up to enter. Ottawa Hindu Temple this evening, Diwali.
October 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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#Diwali 🪔
शुभ दीपावली
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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#PersonsDay #Ottawa #CdnPoli
A close-up of Barbara Paterson’s “Women are Persons!” (The Famous Five) statue at the very start of Rideau Street, with the Chateau Laurier across the street.
October 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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A Google Earth view of 110 O’Connor surrounded by other office buildings. 🏢 #Ottawa #brutalism
October 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Goodbye, 110 O’Connor! #Ottawa #ottawaarchitecture #brutalism
The street level of 110 O’Connor before its demolition. Looking down the covered front of 110 O’Connor, including the Running Room sign, in 2017.
October 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM