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Milestones in the History of the Historical Society of Ottawa

1898

June 3. Founding meeting of “The Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa”

1917

October 25. The Society opens “The Bytown Historical Museum” in the Registry Office, 70 Nicholas Street.

1951

September 26. The renamed “Bytown Museum” moves to the Commissariat building beside the Ottawa Locks.

1955

February 25. Men are accepted as full members and the organization is renamed “The Historical Society of Ottawa.”

1971

August 14. Governor General Roland Michener unveils the statue of Lieut.-Col. John By, the city’s founder, in Major’s Hill Park. The project to build the statue was an important undertaking of the Society.

1998

June 3. The Society celebrates its centennial.

2003

June 13. The Society votes to transfer the Bytown Museum and its 7,836 artifacts to the current organization that is operating it.

2012

The Society transfers those artifacts in its collection that the Bytown Museum did not wish to keep to the City of Ottawa Archives.

2014

“To Be Continued…A Short History of the Historical Society of Ottawa” is published.

2023

125th anniversary of the founding of the Historical Society of Ottawa.

Bob, the Fire Horse: The End of an Era

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  • Year 1929
  • Date September 25

Ottawa's Street Railways

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  • Year 1891
  • Date June 29

Asphalt Paving Comes to Ottawa

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  • Year 1895
  • Date July 30

An Electric Banquet

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  • Year 1892
  • Date August 29

The Maxwell Challenge

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  • Year 1912
  • Date February 22

Ottawa’s First Newspaper

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  • Year 1836
  • Date February 24

The Fastest Chicken in the World

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  • Year 1978
  • Date March 16

Britannia-on-the-Bay

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  • Year 1900
  • Date May 24

The Last Man Hanged in Ottawa

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  • Year 1946
  • Date March 27

The Trial of Agatha Chapman

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  • Year 1946
  • Date November 26
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