Brian McDougall, Peoples' History Walking Tours of Ottawa, Adjunct Professor, Carleton University It was a century ago this month that “les Allumettières” (match workers) of E.B. Eddy staged the first strike by women workers in Quebec history.  Three decades earlier, 2500 unionized sawmill workers had walked out in the largest strike to-date in Canadian history. ...

From Sacred Site to Industrial Wasteland: Colonialism and Class Struggle in the Chaudière District - Walking Tour Brian McDougall of Peoples’ History Walking Tours is offering this special walking tour to complement his HSO presentation Striking Moments of Solidarity in the Chaudière District. Starting point: The tour starts from northeast corner of the intersection of...

Inaugural presentation of a French-language series of conferences Guest Speaker: Hugues Théorêt ,  Author of La Patente l'Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, le dernier bastion du Canada français Like the Irish Catholics, with the Knights of Columbus, and the English Protestants, with their Masonic Lodges and the Orange Order,  French Canada had its own secret society: the...

Guest Speaker Connie Wren-Gunn, Director, Content & Interpretive Products, Know History, Inc., Author, "The WCHSO: Constructing Public Memory and Preserving History in a Changing City, 1898-1932" Join us as we tell our own story! The Historical Society of Ottawa (established as the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa in 1898) has been spreading awareness of...

Guest Speaker, Stephen McKenna, Historian, Author, Musician Join Stephen McKenna as we trace the history of a working class Gloucester village-like neighbourhood – carved out of the former Billings Estate – and its transition from the era of ice houses, sawmills, brickyards, swimming creeks, and horse-drawn wagons into the modern age of shopping malls and...