635 Sydenham Cottage 
Richard Story Robins and Hannah Schneider built Sydenham Cottage around 1838 as their home. Captain Robins, who commanded a Durham steamboat on the Ottawa river, pointed it out to a passenger, Lord Sydenham, who later became Governor of the new province of Canada after the 1840 Act of Union. Robins named his home Sydenham at the latter's request.
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