Lees Avenue

[2] The Ottawa architecture firm of Burgess, McLean & MacPhadyen designed a single level brick, concrete and steel building composed of three connected wings [3] on a 12-acre city-owned Lees Avenue site.

The neighbourhood remained home to the Canadian military's Lees Avenue Armoury until the late 1980s.

For some 35 years up to 1957, the Ottawa Gas Works had operated a coal gasification plant in the area and had produced this byproduct.

This began many months long arguments with the various levels of government, the landowners, and the residents.

The original Lees Ave cross over the train tracks (now Queensway) went straight to the edge of the Rideau River.