Urbsite Explores History Of Neville’s Creek

04/25/2023

It is always an event when Urbsite unveils one of its well-researched stories.

In this one, it looks at some of the last parts of Neville’s Creek:

There are few vestiges of Neville’s Creek today – a sudden dip in Robert Street halfway between Waverley and Gilmour, and a leafy little valley south of Lewis Street that meanders towards the Driveway. When full of water and flowing it was in a strategic location, discharging into the Rideau Canal at the very tip of the Golden Triangle.

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Development along its southern bank has barely changed from the time that it was fully built out as a quiet residential enclave in the early 1900s. The northern shore is another matter. It has served as the location of tiny framed cottages, a beer bottling works, industrially scaled utilitarian buildings, and latterly a highly regarded Modernist landmark that is about to be swept away by a new luxury apartment tower attempting to incorporate some of the site’s recent history.

You can read the Urbsite story on this by clicking here.

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