Explore our shared local history during this fall’s Culture Days celebrations! Enjoy a guided tour of the city’s oldest wood-framed house and experience the stories of Ottawa’s development through the eyes of one of its earliest settler families, the Billings. Learn something new at Billings Estate National Historic Site! Cost: Free admission
The architectural styles in picturesque Rockcliffe Park range from stately stone mansions and interesting contemporary designs to remaining summer cottages. Learn about the history of the village and the role the MacKay and Keefer families had in determining its layout and the design of many of its homes. GUIDE: Martha Edmond, author of Rockcliffe Park: A […]
Doors open 7:00pm Programming begins in the Auditorium 7:30pm Q+A to follow If the adage is true that necessity is the mother of invention, then curiosity-driven research is the grandmother of the whole shebang. The internet, the cellphone, the PET scanner – or even further back – radio, penicillin, electricity: all these inventions and their […]
The Vanier Museopark invites the citizens of the former Eastview Municipality to their next edition of the Eastview Breakfasts. The next meeting will be held on Thursday, October 4th at 8:30am at the Sugar Shack around the theme of Photo Identification. Interested parties are encouraged to bring photographs or other archival material. The Vanier Museopark will take this opportunity […]
Help the Canada Aviation and Space Museum launch World Space Week by exploring outer Space! They've teamed up with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) to celebrate the stars. Join them for a chance to look through a telescope — with RASC volunteers on hand to answer your questions. Weather permitting. Other Space-themed activities […]