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Books by or about Lowertown
Monda Halpern, Alice in Shandehland: Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case, McGill-Queen’s, 2015 By Nancy Miller Chenier Was it an accident or was it a crime of passion? Monda Halpern never gives the answer, but she does provide the reader with multiple things to ponder in this detailed analysis of the Edelson/Horwitz murder…
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A French-Canadian Austrian in Lowertown! – The Finks
By Marc Aubin, with input from a book by Maurice FinkSpecial thanks to Jeannine Fink, Lynda Fink, and Nicole Davis-Lafrenière This story and this photo of 162 Bolton Street, which has now been donated to the City of Ottawa Archives, was precipitated by the death of Jeannine Kennedy Fink in 2025. Jeannine was a great…
Inner City Health and the Ottawa Hospital support the nutrition needs of vulnerable community members
By Echo ContributorRakesh Patel, ICU physician and frontline doctor with Ottawa Inner City Health, has launched an innovative program that repurposes discarded hospital nutritional supplements to support people experiencing homelessness while, at the same time, helping to reconnect them with healthcare services in Ottawa. The initiative centres on Ensure, a high-calorie nutritional drink typically used…