Before
After–(MIKAN 3325436) dated April 20th, 1907
Photo Archives Canada
Yesterday I posted a photo that Jennifer Fenwick Irwin from the Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum posted in Lost Ottawa in 2014. It was a great photo of the Britannia Pier Boathouse in Ottawa dated 1907. Historian Jaan Kolk realized the photo was taken that year because of the enormous ice jam at Britannia Bay that year.
In April of 1907 the Britannia Pier was smashed up considerably and the local cottages on the shore were also threatened. A destructive ice jam had been formed at Britannia by heavy winds and the boathouse that was built in 1906 by the Britannia Boat Club was doomed to destruction. There were great fears that part of the pier would have to be rebuilt.
The ice had been driven to the beach by the fierce overnight winds. It towered twenty feet…
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