Hurdman Park

 Just south of the Queensway, bounded by the Rideau River and Riverside Drive, lies a swath of former farmland that has never been otherwise developed. Curiously, we owe the existence of this now-lovely park to the fact that for some three decades following WWII, the acreage was a dumpsite — literally — first for Ottawa's garbage, then for our snow, and finally as a landfill, possibly associated with the excavation of the Lees Avenue rapid transit station on the opposite bank of the Rideau.

 Such landfill dumping was created an artificial hill which appeared circa 1982[?]. I'm standing on top of it. The myriad herringbone ski-tracks confirm that we're indeed looking down a slope. In the background we see the only buildings of significance in Hurdman Park, the Hurdman rapid transit bus station (early '80s) and behind it, the elevated tracks of the Hurdman LRT station, completed in 2019.

(D. Chouinard, iPhone 11 Pro)