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In celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, the Citizen is rolling out one fact each day for 150 days until July 1, highlighting the odd, the fascinating and the important bits of Ottawa history you might not know about.
Neighbours of a tranquil east Lowertown park where kids and dogs gambol probably don’t know it’s a park of the dead, as artist and local history buff Andrew King writes on his blog, Ottawa Rewind. Macdonald Gardens Park, with its manicured lawns, paths and pretty stone gazebo atop a hill, was once a graveyard for Ottawa’s earliest settlers. Its past was revealed in the 1920s when city landscapers accidentally sent a human skull rolling down an embankment into a passerby’s path, who later told the Ottawa Citizen he hoped it got a decent burial.
The graveyard was in use from the 1840s to the 1870s, when hundreds of the dead were moved to Beechwood Cemetery. The remains of the unclaimed souls were left where they lay. The tombstones were razed in 1911 to create a park honouring Sir John A. Macdonald. The names of the dead and the inscriptions on their buried tombstones can now only be seen at the Ottawa Public Library.
— Megan Gillis
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Neighbours of a tranquil east Lowertown park where kids and dogs gambol probably don’t know it’s a park of the dead, as artist and local history buff Andrew King writes on his blog, Ottawa Rewind. Macdonald Gardens Park, with its manicured lawns, paths and pretty stone gazebo atop a hill, was once a graveyard for Ottawa’s earliest settlers. Its past was revealed in the 1920s when city landscapers accidentally sent a human skull rolling down an embankment into a passerby’s path, who later told the Ottawa Citizen he hoped it got a decent burial.
The graveyard was in use from the 1840s to the 1870s, when hundreds of the dead were moved to Beechwood Cemetery. The remains of the unclaimed souls were left where they lay. The tombstones were razed in 1911 to create a park honouring Sir John A. Macdonald. The names of the dead and the inscriptions on their buried tombstones can now only be seen at the Ottawa Public Library.
— Megan Gillis
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