Guest Speaker James Powell, Author "Today in Ottawa's History" blog From the first known photograph of women playing hockey, taken at Rideau Hall......to the Ontario's first women's hockey champions, the Ottawa Alerts.......to Olympic figure-skating champion, Barbara Ann Scott, "Canada's Sweetheart". Admission is free. All are welcome to attend.

The First Golden Age of Jewish Life in Ottawa Guest Speaker David C. Martin, Historian, Researcher, Columnist From just before the turn of the 20th century, Jewish immigrants literally set up shop in Ottawa’s Lowertown – most notably in the Byward Market – and over the next few decades the roots of the capital’s still small...

Guest Speaker Paul Couvrette, International award-winning photographer, Ottawa The Karsh brothers, arriving in Ottawa as young Armenian refugees, built careers as world-acclaimed photographers — Yousuf with his penetrating portraits of some of the twentieth century's most prominent figures and Malak for his exquisite eye in capturing the sublime beauty of nature and landscape. Paul Couvrette, friend...

Join us for an unforgettably inspiring experience as we journey together to Kitigan Zibi’s annual Pow Wow on Saturday, June 1. This bus excursion is being organized by the Historical Society of Ottawa in partnership with the Gatineau Valley Historical Society.  Everyone is welcome! The Kitigan Zibi Pow Wow, the largest traditional Pow Wow in...

Guest Speaker Peter McBride, President, Bytown Fire Brigade Historical Society Presented in partnership with the Bytown Fire Brigade, an Ottawa-based non-profit historical society founded in 1983 with the mission of collecting, preserving, restoring and displaying artifacts and apparatus that tell the history of firefighting in Ottawa and across Canada. Chief McBride, our guest speaker, is...