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Read the latest issue of The Echo! (16-2, May 2025)
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Books by or about Lowertowners
Gwen Tuinman, Unrest, Random House Canada, 2024. By Nancy Miller-Chenier This historical fiction is focused on the unrest created by the Shiners, gangs of Irish immigrants that terrorized Bytown with extreme acts of violence between 1835 and 1845. Led by Peter Aylen, who later emerged as a successful lumberman, this period, known as the Shiners’…
Before I meet my son
By Sarah Bissex This Mother’s Day, I find myself in between. I am almost exactly halfway to meeting my little boy. I am not yet a mother in the way my neighbours with grown children are, and not yet a new parent navigating naps and feeding schedules like many of my peers. My husband and…
What ANCHOR’s expansion into Lowertown means for our community
By the Lowertown Community Association’s Health & Wellness Committee Lowertown will soon be included in the City of Ottawa’s Alternate Neighbourhood Crisis Response (ANCHOR) program, a community-led mental health and substance-use crisis response service that offers an alternative to a police response in certain situations. ANCHOR was launched in 2024 as a response to long-standing…
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A special request . . . from the team at the Lowertown Echo The Echo is published four times a year by a small, hardworking team of volunteers. We give our time and energies freely to support our beloved local journal and our community. We keep our costs moderately low – about $3,000 per issue (for printing)…
Parenting in Lowertown
By Laura Hashimoto My husband and I are pretty new to parenting. My daughter is just six months old, so when I thought about offering my perspective on raising a kid in Lowertown, I have to admit I felt somewhat underqualified. Sure, some days, when we stick to the routine and I manage to venture…