Ottawa-Premixed Concrete...

Ottawa Journal, May 19 1955

...draws attention to itself in the politest possible way.

Three years later...

geoOttawa, 1958 — stitched, view full-size

Westgate is in the upper right ("W"), facing onto Carling Avenue. "H" indicates the location of the not-yet-built Hampton Park Plaza, directly east of Kirkwood. We can see the road-bed for the future Queensway cutting diagonally across the image, following the the old CN rail right-of-way.

That section of train track was first laid in 1893 as part of J.R. Booth's Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound line (OA&PS). Booth would later consolidated this into his Canada Atlantic Railway (CAR) which was in turn subsumed by the Grand Trunk Railway. This would eventually become a Canadian National holding — CN finally abandoned the track in 1952.