LeBreton Flats

LeBreton Flats is a 21-hectare (52 acres, 21,000 square meters) piece of undeveloped land in the center of Canada’s capital city, Ottawa.

The Great Fire of 1900 destroyed most of the land.

LeBreton Flats Media

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  LeBreton Flats, circa 1865

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  LeBreton Flats after the 1900 fire.

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  Two children in LeBreton Flats in 1963, as the lands were being expropriated and the residents forced to vacate the neighbourhood.

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  Pooley's Bridge, OttawaPooley's Bridge, Ottawa's oldest bridge, is a stone arch bicycle/pedestrian bridge located in Ottawa's LeBreton Flats east of the Canadian War Museum and south of the Portage Bridge. The three span closed spandrel stone arch structure, built in 1873, was designated as a heritage structure by the City of Ottawa in 1994.

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  View of LeBreton Flats in December 2005, prior to redevelopment.