Guest Speaker: Michel Prévost, renowned regional historian, heritage advocate, Outaouais Historical Society President, and recipient of several scholarships The Ottawa Valley has the privilege of being associated with a legendary figure whose fame goes far beyond the region's borders. This folklore giant spent half his life here, attracted by the forestry industry. He became a...

Guest Speaker Paul Weber, Singer/Songwriter, Historian/Storyteller Join us as Paul takes us on a ride through time with tales of early aviators to Ottawa… a buried beer train… lost Francophone history… when Ottawa had a king… and more! Admission is free. All are welcome to attend.

Guest Speaker Isabelle Regout — Alexandre Pampalon, Musée des Cageux du fleuve Saint-Laurent Several generations have put down roots in logging camps. These men felled gigantic white pines. In spring, the squared timber was assembled into rafts to form 500-metre-long logs. The Raftsmen sailed in these wooden cages from the Ottawa River to the St....

Guest Speaker Phil Emberley Following WWII, approximately 40,000 Holocaust survivors resettled in Canada. (Ottawa became home to many of those Holocaust survivors and hundreds of their descendants). Phil’s father, Dieter, may be considered one of the more fortunate of those Jewish children to have experienced the dark days of 1930s Nazi Germany and the horrors...

Guest Speaker Jeff Wang, Author, “Beneath the Archway: Overseas Chinese in Ottawa since 1892” From the arrival of the earliest immigrants in 1892 to the unveiling of Ottawa’s Chinatown Archway in 2010, Jeff Wang’s meticulous research has brought to life the struggles, triumphs and immense contributions of generations of Chinese-Canadians – despite navigating discrimination such...