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...

Guest Speaker Dominique Lajoie,   Historian, Lecturer In Ottawa, just beside the Rideau Canal locks that empty into the Ottawa River, lies an architectural treasure. For more than a century, it has opened its doors to the rich and famous, politicians and even the broadcast offices of CBC Radio. If the walls of the Château Laurier...

We are pleased to announce this upcoming HSO Special Event, an exclusive two-hour private tour of the historic NRC building at 100 Sussex Drive. Please note, however, tour spaces are extremely limited so please confirm your attendance as soon as possible if you are interested so as to avoid disappointment. There is no charge to...

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 Ordre de Jacques-Cartier. Commonly called "La Patente", the...