...Avenue L, Eastway Gardens off Tremblay Road. The area was originally subdivided by the colourful (dare I say notorious?) Alex Bannerman as “Bannermount” despite its flatness.
Bannermount was (sensibly, I think) conceived as a community for rail workers but it never quite got off the ground — the section west of Belfast Road eventually/ironically became the site of the current Ottawa Train Station as well as the Dustbane industrial park (the latter including the above house) while the eastern half was turned into Eastway Gardens (”Alphabet Park”) by the late Bill Teron, one of his earliest developments in this city.
The first time I saw this house I figured it for some kind of biker club house, armoured to the tatas and such, but apparently it is, or at least was the office of a siding company, clad in squares of sample product. Sweet job guys ;-)
