ELGIN STREET AS A HUB FOR TRANSPORT AND TRADE

Quick facts

Story kiosk location

  • South-East Corner of Elgin & MacLaren 

Important dates

  • 13 July 1976, the day the Gulf gas station  advertised a a three year old Cutlass for sale with power steering, new summer and winter tires, and a custom interior for only $3,495.

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What happened here?

  • Vehicle-cyclist incidents are nothing new on Elgin. Zenon Belanger, owner of Zane’s Barber Shop at 338 Elgin, was seriously injured when his bicycle collided with an Ottawa Electric Railway bus at Elgin and MacLaren on 2 July 1943.