Tag: Windmill Developments

A Zibi Kind of Day

Andrea Cordonier

Architecture & Design, Community, History & Heritage, Museums, Galleries & Archives, Place & Space

Sunshine. Twenty degrees. Light breeze. Birdsong out-gunning any human distractions. Views to the Ottawa river. And wildflowers, vines, bushes and trees in bloom everywhere. It was just another perfect day shooting the Domtar lands as part of the Workers History Museum cataloguing project. While the industrial buildings remain the focus, Mother Nature with her natural green roofs, biodiverse ‘gardens’… 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