disappeared without trace. If you want to stay in a hotel in the Glebe today you do so in an eleven story structure adjacent to the Queensway - far less peacefully. It would do the Glebe a lot of good if the Grove Hotel were to be rebuilt. 19. Browns Inlet from Bank Street Bridge showing reeds growing over the former location of the Canal Road. At low water it is marked by a large concrete drain. (Marcelle Jubinville). An economic depression set in during the early seventies so that little happened along Bank Street until the turn of the century, after the economic boom of the nineties, when the Glebe started to be subdivided into residential lots. Houses were built first east of Bank Street in an area briefly known as Spencerville, and then south of Fifth Avenue on Mutchmor's land. The Ottawa Electric Railway (streetcar) was built in 1891, to serve Lansdowne Park and the new urban area, replacing the horsedrawn streetcars that had been there since 1868. The streetcars were removed in 1959. One of the earliest houses on the east side of Bank Street, built in 1878, was that of Robert Dewar. It still remains, behind a single storey structure that was for many years Mr.Wong's grocery, at 797 Bank Street. There were about sixteen other similar simple houses belonging mainly to market gardeners built in the late seventies and mid eighties. This section of Bank Street, in the original glebe between Glebe and Fifth Avenues,