Ottawa’s Coney Island: Kettle Island

15 June 1912 In late 1911, a group of Ottawa businessmen, led by Dr. R. Chevrier, chairman of Ottawa’s Civic Board of Health and the owner of a pharmacy and real estate companies in the Ottawa area, came up with what they thought was a brilliant idea. Let’s open an amusement park in Ottawa, akin … Continue reading Ottawa’s Coney Island: Kettle Island