Events Calendar

Upcoming Events Across Ontario
  • Historical Society of Ottawa Speaker Series: Being “BADO”

    Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch 120 Metcalfe St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    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.

  • Historical Society of Ottawa Speaker Series: GATEVILLE & BEYOND: A VILLAGE ON THE EDGE OF CITY & COUNTRYSIDE

    Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch 120 Metcalfe St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    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...

  • The Historical Society of Ottawa – Striking Moments of Solidarity in the Chaudière District

    Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch 120 Metcalfe St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    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. ...

  • The Historical Society of Ottawa – The Karsh Brothers, Canadian Legends of Photography

    Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch 120 Metcalfe St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    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...

  • Historical Society of Ottawa Speaker Presentation – Ottawa’s Women On Ice

    Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch 120 Metcalfe St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    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.