Osgoode Township Museum presents - Harvest Fest 2022 “Under The Harvest Moon” on Saturday, September 10, 2022. This year is extra special because not only does this event fall on the same date as the Harvest Moon, it will be in person on the museum grounds! Join us for a full day of activities including; […]
Join us for a family-friendly harvest celebration. In farming communities, the fall season meant hard work, but it was also a time for festivities in recognition of a successful growing season. Enjoy live music and put on your dancing shoes as our guest caller introduces you to some traditional steps. Discover how rural families would […]
Join The Historical Society of Ottawa and Guest speaker Rick Henderson, the author of Walking in the Footsteps of Philemon Wright, and Capital Chronicles blog, and the great-great-great-great-grandson of Philemon Wright. Henderson paints an intimate portrait of the man and his family — and of his dreams, struggles and successes as they carved a settlement […]
On September 21, award-winning journalist, author and educator, Ira Basen, will speak on the subject of "Reconciliation and the Writing of Canadian History". This free event is open to the public and will take place at Manotick United Church, 5567 Manotick Main Street, commencing at 7:30 p.m. After becoming aware of a growing controversy among […]
King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generation saw it as a satire on nuclear issues and Cold War thinking. Subsequent generations, removed from the film’s historical moment, came to view it as a quasi-documentary about an unfathomable secret […]