Ottawa Historic Gas StationMain MenuA Relic of Westboro's Early DevelopmentBy Tyler HodgkinsAVRC81ff8dad33b7fe77eee9a543209e890531c75438
Illustration Depicting the Gas Station in Operation During the Time of its Construction
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12021-04-13T12:21:14-07:00A Relic of Westboro's Early Development24By Tyler Hodgkinsimage_header10716212023-11-07T10:09:49-08:00Westboro's historic gas station, built in 1934 and located at 70 Richmond Road, is a relic among modern constructions. Serving as a visual fragment from a lost era of development and early automobility, the station stands at the corner of one of the busiest intersections in Ottawa. This exhibit aims to explore the development of the Westboro neighbourhood in relation to the station and the growing popularity of the automobile in the earlier half of the twentieth century to demonstrate the station's important role in this early development. This exhibit will consider the intersection at which the gas station is located as well as the rise in automobile ownership, looking at how these two factors affected local economies. It will also look to aerial photographs to understand how the area's development greatly accelerated in this period of rising car ownership, partially in thanks to the station in question.
