Working to preserve Ottawa's past
for future generations.
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.
Contact Info
The Historical Society of Ottawa
Box 523, Station "B",
Ottawa, ON
K1P 5P6
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