Guest Speaker:Andrea McCrady, Canada’s Dominion Carillonneur Details: Dr. Andrea McCrady has served as Dominion Carillonneur since 2008, with 53 bells under her command at a keyboard located 188 steps up the Peace Tower, conjuring up the music of Parliament Hill’s massive singing tower. Join us as Dr. McCrady reflects back on almost a century that...

Author Jamie Bramburger recounts the horrific Christmastime Ottawa Valley train crash that took 38 lives and injured over 150. Copies of Jamie’s book will be available. Admission is free. All are welcome to attend.

Guy Badeaux reflects on his four-decade career as editorial cartoonist for Le Droit as well as revealing his great-grandfather’s and great uncle’s renowned contributions as sculptors in the early days of the capital. Admission is free. All are welcome to attend.

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...

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. ...