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We’re 1! And introducing Vanier Blocks to celebrate
This month, we mark one full year since creating VanierNow and posting our first entries – hoping to bring to light Vanier’s unique and sometimes lesser-known attributes. Now, we’re excited to...
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C’est Chill: Snapshots
Several hundred residents and merchants walked, cycled and sang their way through Vanier’s residential streets at Saturday’s parade, an event kicking off C’est Chill (SEE ALSO: Vanier Remixed)....
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There ain’t no Party like a Vanier Party
By Kristina SparkesHaving just celebrated our 1st anniversary and with the festive time of the year upon us, VanierNow is in the party mood. We asked local event planner and girl-about-town Kristina...
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Photo of the Week
Menu (Mitla, Authentic Oaxacan Cuisine; 62 Barrette Street); Photo: VanierNow, 2012
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Another Update on 250 Montreal Road
At a public meeting and formal consultation of the City’s Urban Design Review Panel (UDRP) on December 5, we learned of revisions being made by the AEFO, in response to public comments, to their plans...
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"In the beginning, there was not enough space..."
Amidst the suburban housing tracts and commercial offerings of Innes Road in Orléans, a cast aluminum statue of the Virgin today reaches out to passersby, mounted on the outside façade of Sainte-Marie...
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With the holidays upon us, we offer our (now annual) snapshot of Vanier, lit up for the season’s festivities. From us, to you, Happy Holidays. (Photos: Mike Steinhauer, 2012; click here for non-flash...
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Vanier's place in Central (snowy) Ottawa
Central Ottawa (and Hull) according to Alexandre Laquerre
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A new plan for the Montreal Road corridor
Development Concept for the West Sector of Montreal Road, as suggested in a 1991 City of Vanier Discussion Paper (Source below). At a City-sponsored planning forum on April 26, 2012, Councillor Peter...
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Redesigning Montreal Road (again)
“…City and business officials are starting to picture a certain joie de vivre pulsing along [Montreal Road] the historic thoroughfare. They envision people strolling along a lantern-lit street,...
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At Home With… Gavin Lynch
At Home With… is a new bi-monthly feature presenting Vanier residents within their home environment. The series begins with Gavin Lynch, a Vancouver artist, who moved with his partner and two young...
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Photo of the Week
Approximately 150 residents – from New Edinburgh, Vanier and other Beechwood adjacent neighbourhoods – packed the Memorial Hall of MacKay United Church to learn more about Minto’s proposed development...
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Preserving the Village (a Heritage Conversation District in Vanier?)
Olmstead Street, near Montreal Road (source below) City Council is about to consider a recommendation that Rothwell Height’s mid-century, modernist Briarcliffe sub-division be designated a Heritage...
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From cornerstore to a little piece of Oaxaca
Images, clockwise from top left: the former Barrette Confectionery Grocery, Mitla’s draft floorplan, “Opening Soon,” the white pine boards of Marier (credits: Mitla/Ana Collins, 2012) Walking into...
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VanierThen: A Collection of Photographs (no.1)
With this photograph, we are launching a new series, in collaboration with Vanier’s Muséoparc, sharing one image each month from the museum’s extensive photo collection and archives. Special thanks to...
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The only “all brand store” in Ottawa: Vanier’s LCBO
Before the e-bike became the familiar sight that it is today on Vanier’s streets (at least, during the appropriate season), one would find 20-year old Maurice Glaude on his Lambretta 150cc scooter,...
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Vanier gets its 1960s French groove back
The jukeboxes may have been removed from Fontenelle years ago, but this Saturday (February 16), 1960s French pop is back. From the well-known to the obscure, Vanier-born DJ Mimi la Twisteuse is...
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Vanier Blocks: Second Edition
After launching the Vanier Blocks in late November, you spoke. And within a week, the Vanier Blocks were gone. We’re excited to report that a second shipment has arrived from the makers at Fidoodle!...
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