Guest Speaker:  David Truemner & Emma Kent Emma and David team up to examine the fascinating legacy of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides here in Ottawa. Visit our website for full details and the links to pre-register for the virtual (Zoom) presentations: https://www.historicalsocietyottawa.ca/activities/meetings

Merchants, lumbermen, civic leaders and more! Gravestones tell us who died, but the homes and workplaces of the dearly departed tell us about how they lived. Join us as historian Richard Collins takes us for a fascinating virtual tour... exploring the stories of various historic figures instrumental in shaping Ottawa’s past. This speaker series presentation...

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...