Celebrate Heritage Month with tales from Ottawa's past! Whether it's Battling Bytown, The Flying Canoe, or Fenian mischief, Colette Laplante of Ottawa StoryTellers will tell you tales to intrigue and thrill you.
Join Erica Gilmour, co-owner of Hummingbird Chocolate, and explore the world of cacao farming and its impacts on crafting award-winning chocolate. The presentation will follow the chocolate journey — from the varieties of cacao and where they’re grown to the post-harvest process, as well as how those beautiful beans are turned into chocolate. This presentation […]
= POSTPONED = HERITAGE OTTAWA WILL BE ANNOUNCING A NEW DATE FOR THIS LECTURE SOON. HERITAGE OTTAWA 2019 PHILLIPS MEMORIAL LECTURE The architecture of the Modernist movement once spoke of the future. Now the buildings of the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s are past middle age. They need work — and a critical look. This problem […]
Heritage Ottawa 2019 Phillips Memorial Lecture O.J. and Isobel Firestone were passionate collectors of Canadian art. In the early 1950s, they embarked upon a collection that would grow to more than 1,600 works by noted Canadian artists, spanning the modern era from 1890 to 1985. To complement their growing art collection, in 1960 Dr. Firestone […]
Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Archaeological Society monthly meeting INSIGHTS INTO VICTORIAN GARRISON LIFE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE FORT WELLINGTON LATRINE With Joseph Last Excavating the Fort Wellington latrine at Prescott, Ontario, provided intimate insights into garrison life of the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment stationed there between 1843 and 1854. Contained within the small structure […]