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A regular weekly look-back at some offbeat or interesting stories that have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen over its 175-year history. Today, a party town in winter:
Ottawa’s first winter carnival, held over six days beginning on Jan. 21, 1895, was the hottest cold-weather ticket going in the capital, with snowshoeing, skating, curling, hockey and ice-trotting only small parts of the overall festivities. Visitors from Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, New York and elsewhere filled the city’s hotels and rooming houses.
Harper’s Weekly magazine sent illustrator William Hurd Lawrence here to capture the hibernal hoopla with pen and ink.
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