 This winter picture of the historic La Salle Academy helps identify AES's big new Ottawa address. Major Service offices are in the "tower" behind the former seminary / hotel / barracks. |
 The historic ties of the building can be read on this wall plaque. |
 Enquiring members of the public feel at ease in the spacious quarters of the new Ottawa Weather Office. |
 Meleorological technician Camil Laprise gives one of his many Weatheradio Canada broadcasts from a small studio in the Ottawa Weather Office. |
 Jacques Colin keys in vital information at an Ice Data Integration and Analysis System (IDIAS) work station in the Ice Centre. The multicomputer system obtains ice data from many sources and creates sophisticated, accurate, on-screen maps. |
 Ice forecaster Hugh McRuer is on the cutting edge of high technology at the new Ice Centre, as he tracks the course of potentially dangerous icebergs on the Berg Analysis Prediction System BAPS). |
 Shift supervisor Ed Becker demonstrates one of the Ice Centre's latest additions - a flight planner for coastal ice reconnaissance. |
Notes: To read complete story first published in the February / March 1990 edition of Zephyr Click here * * * Use this link for the ADM's Office and the Policy Planning and Assessment Directorate, also co-located with the Ottawa Weather Office and Ice Centre at La Salle Academy in the early 1990s. |
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