Live from the archives: Anthrax scare near the U of O (2001) Adam Grachnik & Laura Payton 2022/01/08, 3:54 pm On Oct. 16, 2001, the Ottawa police and fire departments responded to a morning call from a tenant in a building near the corner of Goulburn Avenue and Somerset Street in Sandy Hill. Why? Tenants believed they had found anthrax in their mailbox.