Ottawa Electric Railway Sub-station - Ottawa, Ontario - Historic Transformer Sub-Stations Buildings on Waymarking.com

Be safe. This transformer station is still active. The Ottawa Electric Railway (OER) building is located immediately south of the Queensway. When built, the sub-station was near the railroad, the Renfrew sub-division of the CNR (now occupied by the Queensway highway). Like today, Holland Avenue (and the OER streetcar tracks) went under a railroad bridge just north of the transformer station.

The Ottawa Electric Railway dates back to the 1890s. Tracks on Holland Avenue were used by the Somerset-Laurier streetcar route. When this route to the Civic Hospital and the more distant route to Britannia were opened for streetcars in the 1920s, this new transformer sub-station was required. In the late 1940s, more than 230 daily round trips were made by streetcars along Holland Avenue. There was a significant need for the electricity provided by the sub-station. By 1960, streetcars in Ottawa were gone forever.

Creation date: 1924 Status: Active Current use: Active

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