June 3. Founding meeting of “The Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa”
October 25. The Society opens “The Bytown Historical Museum” in the Registry Office, 70 Nicholas Street.
September 26. The renamed “Bytown Museum” moves to the Commissariat building beside the Ottawa Locks.
February 25. Men are accepted as full members and the organization is renamed “The Historical Society of Ottawa.”
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.
June 3. The Society celebrates its centennial.
June 13. The Society votes to transfer the Bytown Museum and its 7,836 artifacts to the current organization that is operating it.
The Society transfers those artifacts in its collection that the Bytown Museum did not wish to keep to the City of Ottawa Archives.
“To Be Continued…A Short History of the Historical Society of Ottawa” is published.
125th anniversary of the founding of the Historical Society of Ottawa.
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