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...

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...