Today Bank Street, the spine of Ottawa, stretches for kilometres south from Wellington Street and remains a commercial hub and gathering place through much of the city.

Ottawa Morning will be talking all week about Bank Street's past and future, and to coincide with that, CBC News decided to take a look at archival photos of the street to see how those photos show its evolution.

Ottawa then and now

An earlier version of this article mistakenly said the photo of the road between the Bank Street Bridge and Billings Bridge was taken in 1849. That number, which appears on the photo, was the item number of the image, not the date.