Topic: UNDERSTANDING AFRICAN CANADIAN HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF EMANCIPATION DAY: 190 YEARS AND COUNTING When: Monday, September 16th, at 07:30 pm What: This year marks the 190th Emancipation Day. The occasion recognizes the legal abolition of slavery in most of the British empire, including Canada, where the last remains of enslavement were nearing the...

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...

The Ontario Historical Society will be hosting a webinar through Zoom on JUNE 18 2024, 4:30 PM to discuss the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA), and what it means for OHS affiliates. The webinar will be led by Lynne Westerhof of Gardiner Roberts LLP, and will include a time for questions. Register here for the...

Voici l’histoire de femmes d’exception, certaines très connues, d’autres moins, et du rôle important qu’elles ont joué dans le rayonnement et la survie de la colonie. Comment étaient-elles vraiment ? Qu’est-ce qui les motivait? Quels obstacles jonchaient leur parcours? Et surtout, quel héritage nous ont-elles laissé? Françoise Bâby vous invite à faire plus ample connaissance...

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...