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This Long Weekend in Heritage #TWIH (October 12-14)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12

Hidden lives revealed: mental health and the children looked after by the Waifs and Strays Society (Before BIFHSGO Education Talk)
Thanksgiving Weekend at the Farm
Quakers in the Family: My Dickinson Ancestors of England and Jamaica (Monthly Meeting)
Haunted Walks of Ottawa’s Halloween Season
Women Making History
Neanderthal Cave Art
Thanksgiving Train Rides
Historic Wakefield Walking Tours / Visite à pied de Wakefield
Les marches hantées au DMK | Haunted Walk Experience at MKE

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13

Thanksgiving Weekend at the Farm
Haunted Walks of Ottawa’s Halloween Season
Women Making History
Neanderthal Cave Art
Brutalism in Downtown Ottawa (French only)
Guided tour of Vanier – Visite guidée de Vanier en anglais

MONDAY, OCTOBER 14

Thanksgiving Weekend at the Farm
Haunted Walks of Ottawa’s Halloween Season
Mammoth Halloween Scavenger Hunt
Neanderthal Cave Art

What’s open and closed on thanksgiving:

The Karsh-Masson Gallery, Barbara Ann Scott Gallery, City Hall Art Gallery and the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame at City Hall will be open.
Canada Agriculture and Food Museum will be open.
Canada Science and Technology Museum will be open.
Canada Aviation and Space Museum will be open.

All other City of Ottawa arts centres, galleries, theatres and museums will be closed.