|
Rideau Station
Rideau station is a station on the O-Train Line 1 (O-Train), Line 1 on Rideau Street on the border of the Sandy Hill, Ottawa, Sandy Hill and ByWard Market neighbourhoods in Central Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Location The underground station is beneath Rideau Street in Central Ottawa. Originally, Rideau station was to be built under the Rideau Canal, with a station at Confederation Square, closer to Parliament Hill. It was decided to relocate the station to the east in partnership with Cadillac Fairview, the owners of the Rideau Centre, where it would serve more people and provide access to the ByWard Market. There are two entrances from the Rideau Centre on the south side and another built into a Scotiabank on the north side of Rideau Street, at the threshold of the ByWard Market. Through the Rideau Centre, riders can walk to Freimans, Hudson's Bay, the Westin Hotel, the Shaw Centre (Ottawa), Shaw Centre, the Transportation Building (Ottawa), Transportation Building and the Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O-Train
The O-Train is a light rail system in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, operated by OC Transpo. The O-Train system consists of three lines, all of which are fully Grade separation, grade-separated. As of March 2025, one line is currently being extended and a new line will be added as part of the Stage 2 project, with new segments being phased in between 2025 and 2027. The O-Train network currently operates one Electric multiple unit, electric light rail line, Line 1 (O-Train), Line 1, and two Hybrid rail, diesel light rail lines, Line 2 (O-Train), Line 2 and Line 4 (O-Train), Line 4. Line 1 travels in a 2.8 km tunnel in the downtown core, and the rest of the network continues to operate grade-separated on surface-level, trenched, or elevated tracks. Line 1 is being extended in both directions, with the eastward extension to Trim station in Orleans scheduled to open first in 2025. By 2027, the westward expansion of Line 1 to Baseline station, Algonquin station and the construction of new L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transportation Building (Ottawa)
The Transportation Building, 10 Rideau Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada is a historic Gothic revival/ Chicago school office tower. The building stands at the intersection of Sussex Drive Sussex Drive (), also known as Ottawa Regional Road93, is an arterial road in Ottawa, Ontario, the capital of Canada. It is one of the city's main ceremonial and institutional routes. Travelling roughly parallel to the Ottawa River, Sussex Drive ... and Rideau Street. It was designed by architect John Albert Ewart built by C. Jackson Booth, son of lumber baron J.R. Booth in 1916. It was across the street from Union Station, now the Senate of Canada Building, and was thus named the Transportation Building. When Ottawa's second city hall was destroyed in a fire in 1931 the building became Ottawa's temporary city hall. Originally the city only occupied part of the building, but eventually it took over the entire structure. The city left for a new city hall on Green Island in 1958. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mackenzie King Station
Rideau station is a station on the O-Train Line 1 on Rideau Street on the border of the Sandy Hill and ByWard Market neighbourhoods in Central Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Location The underground station is beneath Rideau Street in Central Ottawa. Originally, Rideau station was to be built under the Rideau Canal, with a station at Confederation Square, closer to Parliament Hill. It was decided to relocate the station to the east in partnership with Cadillac Fairview, the owners of the Rideau Centre, where it would serve more people and provide access to the ByWard Market. There are two entrances from the Rideau Centre on the south side and another built into a Scotiabank on the north side of Rideau Street, at the threshold of the ByWard Market. Through the Rideau Centre, riders can walk to Hudson's Bay, the Westin Hotel, the Shaw Centre, the Transportation Building and the National Defence Headquarters without stepping outside. The station serves destinations such as the ByW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Verburg
Jim or JIM may refer to: Names * Jim (given name), a given name * Jim, a diminutive form of the given name James * Jim, a short form of the given name Jimmy People and horses * Jim, the nickname of Yelkanum Seclamatan (died April 1911), Native American chief * Juan Ignacio Martínez (born 1964), Spanish footballer, commonly known as JIM * Jim (horse), milk wagon horse used to produce serum containing diphtheria antitoxin * Jim (Medal of Honor recipient) Media and publications * ''Jim'' (book), a book about Jim Brown written by James Toback * ''Jim'' (comics), a series by Jim Woodring * '' Jim!'', an album by rock and roll singer Jim Dale * ''Jim'' (album), by soul artist Jamie Lidell * Jim (''Huckleberry Finn''), a character in Mark Twain's novel * Jim (TV channel), in Finland * Jim (YRF Spy Universe), a fictional film character in the Indian YRF Spy Universe, portrayed by John Abraham * JIM (Flemish TV channel), a Flemish television channel * "Jim" (song), a 1941 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneviève Cadieux
Geneviève Cadieux (; born 17 July 1955) is a Canadian artist known for her large-scale photographic and media works in urban settings. She lives in Montreal. Education Cadieux was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1955. She received her BA in Visual Arts from University of Ottawa. Teaching * Concordia University, 1991 – present; * Guest professor, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, 1994; * École nationale des beaux-arts in Grenoble, 1996 Works Geneviève Cadieux is a photographer who frequently works with audio-visual materials in her large-scale public installations in urban settings. Cadieux's work confronts identity, gender, and the body. She presents the body as a landscape, focusing on small details close-up, such as mouths, bruises, and scars. Cadieux's early career was mainly in film photography. Her 1989 work, ''Hear Me With Your Eyes'', was featured at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and consisted of large-scale photographic prints of a woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ticket Barrier
A turnstile (also called a gateline, baffle gate, automated gate, turn gate in some regions) is a form of gate which allows one person to pass at a time. A turnstile can be configured to enforce one-way human traffic. In addition, a turnstile can restrict passage only to people who insert a coin, ticket, transit pass, security credential, or other method of payment or verification. Modern turnstiles can incorporate biometrics, including retina scanning, fingerprints, and other individual human characteristics which can be scanned. Thus a turnstile can be used in the case of paid access (sometimes called a faregate or ticket barrier when used for this purpose), for example to access public transport, a pay toilet, or to restrict access to authorized people, for example in the lobby of an office building. History Turnstiles were originally used, like other forms of stile, to allow human beings to pass while excluding livestock, grave yards being one application. They may have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Side Platform
A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms, one for each direction of travel, is the basic design used for double-track railway lines (as opposed to, for instance, the island platform where a single platform lies between the tracks). Side platforms may result in a wider overall footprint for the station compared with an island platform, where a single width of platform can be shared by riders using either track. In some stations, the two side platforms are connected by a footbridge or tunnel to allow safe access to the alternate platform. While a pair of side platforms is often provided on a dual-track line, a single side platform is usually sufficient (trains are usually only boarded from one side) for a single-track line. Layout Where the station is close to a level crossing (g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rideau Station Headhouse Side, May 2022
Rideau (French for "curtain") may refer to: In or near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Geographical features *Rideau Canal *Rideau Falls *Rideau River *Rideau Trail Towns and places *Rideau Ferry, Ontario *Rideau Lakes, Ontario *Rideau Street *Rideau Township, Ontario * Rideau View Buildings and structures *Rideau Centre *Rideau Hall * Rideau High School * Rideau Valley Clubs and organizations * Rideau Canoe Club *Rideau Club * Rideau Curling Club People with the surname * Brandon Rideau (born 1982), American football player * Iris Rideau (born c. 1937), American French Creole winemaker * Laquincy Rideau (born 1996), American basketball player * Stéphane Rideau (born 1976), French actor * Wilbert Rideau (born 1942), American convicted killer * Rideau brothers, American criminals Other uses *Rideau (company), a Canada-based company providing recognition programs and products *Rideau Arcott, a Canadian breed of domestic sheep *''Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier'', a painting c. 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Arts Centre
The National Arts Centre (NAC) () is a Arts centre, performing arts organization in Ottawa, Ontario, along the Rideau Canal. It is based in the eponymous National Arts Centre (building), National Arts Centre building. History The NAC was one of several projects launched by the government of Lester B. Pearson to commemorate Canada's Canadian Centennial, 1967 centenary. It opened its doors to the public for the first time on May 31, 1969, at a cost of Canadian dollar, C$46 million. In February 2014, the centre unveiled a new logo and slogan, ''Canada is our stage,'' in preparation for its fiftieth anniversary in 2019. The former logo had been designed by Montreal graphic designer Ernst Roch and had been in use since the centre's opening. In October 2015, initial talks about plans to develop an Indigenous theatre were held between NAC leadership, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous performers and community leaders from across Canada with the aim of making Indigenous theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château Laurier
The Fairmont Château Laurier is a hotel with 429 guest rooms in the downtown core of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Located near the intersection of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive, it is designed in a French Gothic Revival Châteauesque style to complement the adjacent Parliament buildings. The hotel is above the Colonel By Valley, home of the Ottawa Locks of the Rideau Canal, and overlooks the Ottawa River. The main dining room (now the Laurier Room) overlooks Major's Hill Park. The reception rooms consist of the Wedgewood-blue Adam Room, the Laurier Room defined with Roman columns, the Empire-style ballroom, and the Drawing Room decorated with cream and gold plaster ornament. The hotel was designated a national historic site in 1980. History Grand Trunk Railway 1909–1923 Grand Trunk Railway president Charles Melville Hays commissioned Château Laurier, and construction occurred between 1909 and 1912 for , in tandem with Ottawa's downtown Union Station (now the Senate of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National War Memorial (Canada)
The National War Memorial (), titled The Response (), is a tall, granite memorial arch with accreted bronze sculptures in Ottawa, Ontario, designed by Vernon March and first dedicated by King George VI in 1939. Originally built to commemorate the Canadians who died in the First World War, it was in 1982 rededicated to also include those killed in the Second World War and Korean War and again in 2014 to add the dead from the Second Boer War and War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), War in Afghanistan, as well as all Canadians killed in all conflicts past and future. It now serves as the pre-eminent war memorial of 76 cenotaphs in Canada. In 2000, the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was added in front of the memorial and symbolizes the sacrifices made by all Canadians who have died or may yet die for their country. Context and use The National War Memorial is the focal point of Confederation Square in Canada's capital city, Ottawa, Ontario. The squa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Conference Centre
The Senate of Canada Building () is a government building and former railway station that serves as the temporary seat of the Senate of Canada. Located at 2 Rideau Street in downtown Ottawa, it was known as Ottawa Union Station and served as the city's central railway station from 1912 until 1966. From 1966 to 2018, it was operated by the Government of Canada as the Government Conference Centre. The building currently includes a temporary Senate chamber (housed in the concourse of the former railway station), as well as some Senate offices and committee rooms (in the waiting room of the former station). It is situated at the intersection of Wellington Street and the Rideau Canal, across the street from the Château Laurier hotel (which was constructed around the same time). It is from Parliament Hill and Confederation Square. History History of Railways in Ottawa Before the turn of the twentieth century, several railway companies had run lines into the city and had begun t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
