How to Measure Drivers’ Speed Without Tools
Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you find yourself wondering how fast traffic moves through your neighbourhood? Here is a simple method to roughly calculate just that.
Month: September 2023
Retracing the First Train into Ottawa: the Bytown & Prescott Railway
Reading Time: 10 minutes Mr. Walter Shanly (1817-1899), a civil engineer, touched the ground to inspect the land underneath his snow shoes. He was on a mission: recently he, and a group of investors, had agreed on building the first railway track into Bytown (now Ottawa), all the way from Prescott on the St. Lawrence river, to connect the lumbertown on the Ottawa River with the ports in Prescott. A distance of about 50 miles (80 km). Not everyone was excited about their plans though and it had taken time to get the funds together. Thomas McKay, who built Rideau Hall, put forward money [Read more…]