Ottawa USED to be a really lovely city, not so much anymore...

Wow. The first few minutes I know exactly where this is! Neat video actually. Spent over thirty years of my early years in Ottawa. 🥰

I was born in Ottawa in 1951 so I lived through this era. I can't say the city of today is an improvement.

Ottawa used to be a really nice place. Now it looks like a refugee camp and smells like piss. Complete rat hole.

This is what Ottawa looked like when I first went there for a training course back in the Fall of 1966. I celebrated my 21st birthday in Ottawa. That Volkswagon looks like the one my friend had.

I imagine this was shot on Super 8 film.

Born here at the Civic in 1968 & still here Eh 🤟😎🤟

I was 10 at that time. I remember it well. The biggest thing to come would probably be the Volkswagon Beetles. The 70s had them everywhere. I owned 2 of them. I loved it back then. I'd go back any day. Thanks for the video.

Anyone ever questioned how they built the train station which has Greco Roman columns, yet the first power tool was only invented in 1895!? Or how they built what is now called The Royal Canadian Mint, which is a Castle by the way. Who built that? And if we are advancing, and we're not, but they say we are so how come in the early 1900s are we building shacks for homes using wood planks and building barns made out of wood? Man goes from building massive ornate buildings made with marble or millions of brick to then start building wooden shacks. Something smells off. We don't even "see" those old world buildings which are right in our face. Founded really means "found it". They found those buildings! Most of those old world structures are now used as government buildings too. And many of the old world buildings have huge doorways. They tear those old world buildings down so that we don't have a clue about this world or where we live, etc. Destroy the history. Nobody "evolves" backwards. You don't build impressive "cathedrals" with spires with old world technology on the roofs with super ornate details and graduate from that to building shacks! Anyway, I was born in Ottawa in 1971. Fascinating to see how it once looked. Can't say it didn't pull at my heartstrings because it did. Thank you for this video.

I remember how Ottawa was in this video, so much simpler, more beauty from nature, way fewer buildings, cars and people. Now it's congested by comparison, lots of changes! I'll always love Ottawa ❤️

I went to Laurentian H.S. 1964/68. Is it on this video anywhere. It doesnt exist anymore.

if you look closely there was NOT one Donair shop !! 😅

That white VW bug is everywhere

I went to the school in the thumbnail. It is/was on Dynes road. I lived one block over on Eiffel.

VERY IMPRESSIVE that your Uncle got this in 1968-69! And Thank YOU so much for posting this!!! My Family lived in Ottawa 1964-1983. Great Memories!!!

This was after the Greber Plan and urban renewal gutted the core of the city, the working class and Francophones were all pushed out from downtown to make it more germane and with them went any character the city center ever had.

awesome vid!!! I had just moved to Ottawa from Monterey California, 1969. My father was invited to emigrate to Canada ( cold ) to work for Jean Chretien, yes. - I was 5. what a shock. But I remember the charm of Rideau Street at Christmas. Bells would chime and there were Christmas trees and Outdoor Garland hanging decoratively ( stop the vid 12:04 ) . I had never seen such a culture. we moved to Grenfell Glen off of Merivale Rd. ( I remember when Merivale road, south of Tanglewood was tar sprayed on small rocks!!!!!. It seemed to this young boy that Ottawa was the Parliament Buildings and everything else was kind of run by the locals built up around. I've lived in many cities.. I love Ottawa for its scenic qualities - just saying.

Lol, the squirrel at 3:11 is probably the great great great great great grandaddy of the squirrels we see running around today there.

My father died in 68 i remember going to the RAT HOLE movie theater to see the COWBOYS staring JOHN WAYNE with my UNCLE LORNE a few years after and he showed us the down town this is how it looked as i remember it. OUTSTANDING.

Wow lol. Really hard to say this is 1968. Everything looks just same!

Wonderful to see this. The drive down Maitland and then onto the Queensway, exiting to Kent Street has been part of my drive home for over forty years. Great footage, and surprisingly good quality. Thanks for sharing this!

Amazing. Good job. Thank you. Lived in Ottawa at that time.

Such a trip to see places you have been ages ago

My mom would of probably arrived in Canada by this point

Truck for now defunct Ottawa Journal at 1:13. Used to deliver those papers in the west end in Carlingwood Mall area to homes, apartment buildings and businesses in the Mall including the old beer store (then called Brewers Retail) that was there.

I am embarrassed to admit I lived in Ottawa for over 10 years. People in Ottawa are rude, very conservative, and I was discriminated against daily by the public. Moving to Montreal was the best decision. I am a Trans Woman, and for that reason alone, I was tortured by school kids, teachers, strangers, "Friends", and unfortunately my parents too. All this to say, when I see Ottawa now, I only see pain, and all the places I felt alone and unloved. I do not blame the actual city, but in the 90s and early 2000's it was bad. I was beat up by a gang of Russian guys at the bus station while people watched, or turned there heads. I was almost stabbed by some transphobic freak walking home. Kids in school would call me a faggit or whatever else, right in front of teachers, even my guidance councilor, and they would say/do nothing. Every single day it was hell, and I tell myself at least I wasn't born in Egypt or Africa. Where they murder gay/trans people and get away with it completely. Fuck Ottawa up the Ass, ba bye.

Awesome! Thanks.

You can tell how old it is by the unilingual signage, and drivers actually stopping at red lights. 😉

This is not 1968. Looks more like 1973 if you look at vehicles and new buildings.

Arrived in Kanata 1968 and Ottawa the next year. Miss it still.

Now I have to go through my parents home movies to see what they from Nepean...

Ottawa has sort of changed, but other than that, jeez, it looks so similar.

Logs on River Still...

Ottawa looks the same 40+ years later...

Tailgating on the Queensway apparently is a time honoured tradition

Looks more like early 70s to me. Those buses for instance were not that style or colour in the 60s.

Why is everyone saying how little it's changed? It was a helluva lot more sparse than it is now-- there are a lot of new buildings from the Byward Market to Tunney's Pasture to Baseline Road-- Take a tour of the same course now and you'll see the difference. Of course the structure of the city itself hasn't changed-- did you expect the earth to move and the Queensway and 100 year-old buildings to be rearranged?

Woow Ottawa looks so beautiful then

Thank You Very Much - born and raised, best place in the world...

8:53 I see the canal hasn't chaaangeWHOA this looks weird without Rideau Center!

when will people ever learn to turn on image stabilising on their iphones? yeah nothing changes in Ottawa

I remember when Carling Ave ended at woodroofe at the Sears Store. And a dirt road to brittania beach.

Nice to see my old school. I went to McGregor Easson from 1964-1969.

What an obscure thing for KZbin to recommend me 6 years after its posting.

Damn this is so cool I'm on uplands dr and ya everything does look same

I saw my house, wow this is really cool

Ottawa is my #1 city on earth.

I went to McGregor Easson from 1982-1990, that was cool to watch!

IF YOU LOOK AT THE INFRASTRUCTURE,NOT MUCH AS CHANGED,NO WONDER OTTAWA IS GRIDLOCK MOST DAYS

Wow! It really is very similar to how it is today. I recognized nearly all of the areas shown and even some of the buildings are still here.