This is the branch of the mall that leads from the centre court area (with HMV and American Eagle Outfitters and the cinema) to the eastern walkway over Rideau Street to the Bay department store.

Full-size photo.

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It's a decent-sized central city location, but nothing like the three-storey Montreal HMV megastore.

PROJECT FREESHEET: The newspaper boxes are, from left to right, the Big Yellow Box (various free classified ad magazines), Exclaim (some sort of music freebie), Ottawa Business Journal (free), Ottawa Xpress (weekly cultural/ad freebie), the blue one's some kind of ad magazine, Ottawa Citizen (paid daily), Metro (free daily), Ottawa Sun (paid daily).

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Flying towards the HMV.

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I was intentionally trying (from memory) to match the angle in this photo of Sparks Street in the daytime, but I was a metre or two to the left of where I was when I took the daylight photo.

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