Ladouceur Street in Hintonburg

Ladouceur Street in hintonburg was named after one of the first aldermen of hintonburg or ottawa.  Do you have any records of what was his first name, and what year the street was named ?

Ladouceur Street in Hintonburg is named for David Ladouceur who was elected to the first Village of Hintonburg Council in 1894, and re-elected in 1895. In fact all the members of the first Hintonburg Village Council have streets named after them: Reeve John O’Meara, Aaron Carruthers, F. H. Gilchrist and George J. Young. The incorporation of the Village of Hintonburg in 1893 required the renaming of several streets, since there was more than one Centre, West, South street, among others.

Ladouceur was born in Quebec and first appears in Ottawa in the 1881 census as a resident of Victoria Ward. He is listed as a labourer, marrried with 4 daughters and one son. He had married Marie Gauthier, also born in Quebec, in 1871. By 1885, Ladouceur, a 39 year old labourer, resided at the corner of West Street (now Lowrey) and Armstrong Street (now Merton) on a property worth $200 with a family of 7 people.

Ladouceur was employed as a messenger with Public Works from 1891 to 1898 and was occupied as a grocer 1898-1900, then a labourer1907-1910. He could read and write and spoke both French and English, although Marie his wife could neither read nor write.

Ladouceur purchased a lot at the south east corner of Armstrong (now Merton) St. and Centre (now Ladouceur) St. in March 1895. In 1896 he sold half of the lot to his daughter, Amanda Chartrand and her husband Joseph, a baker. Ladouceur Street was first listed as an address in the City Directory in the 1896-97 edition. At this time, Ladouceur Street ended at Merton Street. The street was extended to Hinchey by By Law 3244 adopted in October 1911.

In 1901, the Ladouceurs still lived at the corner of Ladouceur and Merton in a 7 room brick house. The family lost their home in 1905 when the mortgagor foreclosed. They lived at various addresses on Pinhey Street until David Ladouceur died October 31, 1910 at the age of 64. The 1911 census lists Marie Ladouceur as a widow with two sons living at home, 82 Pinhey Street, a property which she purchased earlier in 1911.

[based on Census records, Land Registry records, City Directory evidence and the St. François d’Assise parish records]