Tag: Domtar

Shooting the Domtar Lands – Part 2

Andrea Cordonier

Architecture & Design, Community, History & Heritage, Place & Space

Another glorious day working outside, this time photographing a series of attached buildings beginning on the corner of Rue Eddy & Boulevard Alexandre-Tache. The mostly stone buildings are encased in high chain link fencing, held tight by cross-wires and reinforced by steel posts and beams endeavouring to keep all the bits together. Bill worked the overview from across… Read more
Everything Changes: Shooting the Domtar Lands

Andrea Cordonier

Architecture & Design, Bricks & Mortar, Community, First Nations, Geography, History & Heritage, Museums, Galleries & Archives, Place & Space, Volunteerism

Since mid-winter, I’ve had the pleasure of photographing the Domtar lands with a team of volunteers from the Workers History Museum in Ottawa. Windmill Development Group, Inc. is poised to re-develop the land which has been home to pulp and paper giants E.B. Eddy and Domtar since 1891. Because of the placement of the buildings, there isn’t much… Read more