For those brave at heart, join in one of Haunted Walks Halloween Tours and hear spooky stories of Ottawa’s history! If you dare, contact Haunted Walks for more information and to book tickets: http://www.hauntedwalk.com
Learn about the critters and crawlers that feast on the Museum’s collection. Leave with a hand-made souvenir from your time at the Museum. We appreciate modest donations when you participate in our community programs.
The next meeting of the Irish Research Group will be on Tuesday October 22, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. in the Craft Room at the McNabb Community Centre, 180 Percy Street, Ottawa. Everyone is welcome to attend. Our speaker will be Michael McBane. His presentation is entitled "John Egan’s Anti-sectarian Politics in the Ottawa Valley (1848-1857)". […]
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Join us for discussions on researching ancestors in British Colonial America's 13 colonies: Virginia, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Free parking available at City Hall. Please enter the church at the office entrance on Lisgar Street. Open […]
Take a trip around the continent to visit some of the most visually stunning, innovative and environmentally conscious buildings ever built. At this Urbanism Lab event, speakers from across Canada and the United States will walk you through award-winning designs that elevate sustainability to new heights, and provide a roadmap to making our cities smarter, […]
Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence – two topics essential to the future of our society, each with their own inherent challenges. What if they could work together for the greater good? Join invited speakers from Watergeeks.io and BluWave AI for a discussion that will explore the potential to use AI to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, […]
The Bytown Museum’s 102nd birthday Celebrate with us, the BYTOWN MUSEUM 102nd year as Ottawa’s community museum!
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Room 115, City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Are you interested in your Scottish roots? In discovering who your Scottish ancestors were and how they lived? The Scottish Genealogy Group is made up of people who share these interests. At our informal meetings we share information and […]
October 26-27 bring the whole family in for some Halloween fun. Check out these activities: Children 5-13 can explore the different beliefs, superstitions and cultural practices people have with money in a comfy, cozy reading zone Staff will present a live story time for the wee ones at 1:15 pm and 3:45 pm Colouring fun! […]
Goulbourn Museum’s fun-filled morning of costumes, candy, cackling and hair-raising Halloween hijinks is back! Drop your little ghosts and goblins off to decorate edible haunted houses, make creepy crafts and play ghoulish games! This is a drop-off activity for ages 6-11. Cost is $25 per child ($20 for Kits’ Club Members). Call 613-831-2393 or […]
Cost: $19.75 per family (2 adults + children); $7.75 adults; $5.50 seniors, children and students. Children 5 and under are free. Annual memberships are welcome. *Please note that library passes are not accepted on special event days. A day of family-friendly Halloween fun at the museum! Wear your costume and explore the origins of Halloween […]
It’s the spookiest season of them all! Kids and families are invited to join us for hands-on fun as we explore tales, legends, and stories about the things that go bump in the night and that have inspired some of our favourite Halloween traditions. Gail Anglin from Ottawa Storytellers will help bring these tales to life and […]
Travel back to the last ice age — just in time for Halloween! The Museum’s annual Halloween Party is a little hairier this year, featuring woolly mammoths and Neanderthals! Inspired by the Neanderthal exhibition, you and your family can dance around a life-sized woolly mammoth made entirely of balloons and watch as magician Eric Leclerc […]
Annual Historical Tour of Beechwood Cemetery The Beechwood Cemetery Stroll is a guided historical tour through Beechwood, the National Cemetery of Canada. Tours are given on the fourth Sunday of each month, rain or shine, and begin at 1:00PM. Tours start from the Beechwood National Memorial Centre, located just off our Beechwood Avenue entrance. […]
Request for the donation of knitted and crocheted poppies for the Goulbourn Museum's remembrance installation! This Sunday, during the Museum's monthly Yap & Yarn meetup, they will be sewing them to the net and could sure use your help! We will be attaching the poppies inside the Museum between 1:00-4:00 p.m. this Sunday, October 27th. High school […]
A presentation will be made by military historian Captain Steven Deiter on Gloucester (East and South Ottawa) residents who served and fell during World War II following the D-Day invasion. The presentation will be followed by a guided walking tour to the National Military Cemetery. We encourage everybody attending to wear a poppy, if possible. […]
A family-friendly version of our Halloween storytelling program. Immerse yourself in the legends and lore of the Ottawa Valley…if you dare. Bring your family and gather round for a live storytelling program that will shift your understanding of history from the ordinary to the otherworldly. A lantern-lit tour of the manor house will add to the atmosphere. S’mores […]
Registration for the Haunted Horaceville program at Pinhey's Point Historic Site is now full. Space is available for the family-friendly version: Spooky Storytelling (ottawa.ca/pinheyspoint). Immerse yourself in the legends and lore of the Ottawa Valley…if you dare. These ghostly tales will leave you unsettled, a familiar feeling to early settlers at Hallow’een. Bring your friends […]