the building that Shades Bar was in was on this spot, now demolished and rebuilt over
This file appears in: Shades - The Vault
This file appears in: Shades - The Vault
Shades - The Vault – Ottawa's first gay-owned bar
Shades was on the second floor of a building that was torn down, so what you'll see now the Laurier House, which occupies a much larger section of the block. Opened in Jan or Feb of 1982 by Les McAfee and Bill McBurney, it became Ottawa's first…