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. ...

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...

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.

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