The Cuban embassy was initially located at 690 Island Park Drive[1] and subsequently relocated to Chapel Street in Sandy Hill.

For many years the Chapel Street location was the target of repeated terrorist attacks by U.S.-based anti-Castro groups.

In 1968 the embassy moved into a stone manor at 700 Echo Drive in Old Ottawa South, which was the site of another unsuccessful attack in 1974.

This bombing campaign would continue until 1980 with the embassy and the Cuban consulate in Montreal being repeatedly attacked.

Most of these attacks were small and badly planned and only one person was killed: Sergio Pérez Castillo, who died when the consulate in Montreal was bombed in 1972.