Goulbourn Museum invites you to join us on Tuesday, June 22 at 7:00 pm for the third installment of our 2021 Speaker Series. In November 2021 Goulbourn Museum is launching its first solely virtual exhibition. With Love to All will explore the experiences of youth during the Great War through the focal point of the […]
As part of the Bytown Museum's summer lecture series, they are hosting an exciting talk with Luc Lalande on the History of Ottawa's Tech Sector. This is a Virtual Lecture taking place via Zoom. As a recent university graduate in 1984, Luc noticed a job posting in the Ottawa Citizen describing a new and unique […]
Born in Perth, Ontario, William Michell made it to the Antarctic and back as ship’s doctor on one of the Shackleton expeditions. Dr. Michell’s story is just one of many fascinating histories in the Lanark County Genealogical Society’s new publication, Lanark County Legends. Presentation by Karen Prytula, Lanark County Genealogical Society. Ottawa Branch, Ontario Ancestors […]
Documenting fatal casualties was an enormous undertaking during and immediately after the Great War. One of the first guides to wartime cemeteries was Sidney C. Hurst’s Silent Cities, published in 1929. Now, more than a century after the war ended, we can break the silence and tell the story of our ancestors who served and […]