Ashburnham sunrise

 Looking west — warmer days ahead, we hope.

Insofar as Bytown was a preplanned community (1826), Upper Town, especially north of Wellington, was the designated enclave of the "haves." Soon enough, the monied class expanded their range southward, into the cliff-top Ashburnham district.

Even as this was happening, Bytown became Ottawa (1855), the Capital of Canada (1857), and an influx of civil servants turned the area immediatley west of the downtown core into something rather different — the middle-class sprawl of Centretown and beyond.