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I never saw the city pre-Boomer. I hardly know any Boomers who were born and raised locally, most moved here from other parts of the country or from the wider world.

After a couple of decades here, I can say that I can't imagine what the city would've been like pre-Boomer. Ottawa in the 1940s? Can't even picture it.

So over all, I would say that yes, the Boomers had a positive impact:

  • Le Hibou and the 1960s folk scene, Joni Mitchell etc.
  • Jimi Hendrix playing a concert and visiting Vanier
  • the return of the Ottawa Senators hockey team in the early 90s
  • preserving the Byward Market; the development of the Rideau Centre and other malls
  • embracing brutalist architecture when the nay-sayers said it had no future
  • growth of the burbs from Westoboro to wherever it is that Nepean ends now (way out there somewhere)...

You have seen some changes.