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Scottish Ontario Chambers

building in Ottawa at the corner of Sparks Street and Elgin Street

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ26834122 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Scottish Ontario Chambers is a building in Ottawa at the corner of Sparks Street and Elgin Street that was built in 1883. It was designed by William Hodgson. It is designated as a heritage property under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Scottish Ontario Chambers” as building in Ottawa at the corner of Sparks Street and Elgin Street. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1883—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Scottish, Ontario and Chambers can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as building in Ottawa at the corner of Sparks Street and Elgin Street. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26834122. Authority coordinates are 45.423, -75.696. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1883.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Scottish Ontario Chambers”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Scottish Ontario Chambers primary sources, Scottish Ontario Chambers archive and Scottish research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Scottish Ontario Chambers”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Scottish Ontario Chambers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.