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Let’s hear your stories about Bytown and the Rideau Canal as we begin to mark 2026, the 200th anniversary of the beginning of both! All contributions are welcome. Selected submissions will be shared on a special webpage on the HSO website for all to access, including educators. Eligible contributions can be submitted in a variety of formats, including written or audio/video. We request that submissions be received by November 30, 2025. We hope to also incorporate selected contributions into the HSO’s many other platforms – such as the HSO blog,…
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The HSO’s Ben Weiss was honoured to be invited to address the 200 or so Rotary Club youth gathered in Ottawa on May 25, 2025, for the opening day of the Rotary Club’s annual Adventure in Citizenship conference. The day also included a visit to the House of Commons by the conference’s 16-18 year olds, the day before the arrival of King Charles III and the Opening of Parliament. The “Adventure in Citizenship” program was established by the Rotary Club of Ottawa in 1951. Each year, approximately 200 senior high…
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Beginning on April 2, 2025, subscribers to Rogers TV will be able to enjoy a fascinating new weekly series, “Time Travelling with the Historical Society of Ottawa”, a collaboration between Rogers TV and the HSO. Each week's new episode will air Wednesday @ 7:30 p.m. and then be rebroadcast Friday at 5:30 p.m. and the following Tuesday @ 10:00 a.m. on Rogers TV Channel 22. Here is the schedule of episodes and our featured presenters: Wednesday, April 2 @ 7:30 p.m. "Go Exploring" with Paul Weber Wednesday, April 9 @…
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For those with a passion for history, delving into the past becomes an exciting adventure in “Time Travelling”! These new 30-minute episodes of “Time Travelling… with the Historical of Ottawa”, recorded in collaboration between the HSO and Rogers TV, provide a phenomenal opportunity to sit back and enjoy some wonderful stories shared by more than a dozen the Ottawa area’s most engaging historians. Beginning in April 2025, a new episode was broadcast each week on Rogers TV Channel 22 (or Channel 23 in the case of the French-language episodes). And…
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The French version of the series “Time Travelling” will being airing on May 14, 2025 on Rogers TV 23. Timeslots will be as follows: Dominique Lajoie “Château Laurier: Si les murs pouvaient parler” – May 14, 2025 Rick Henderson “Philemon Wright et son village” – May 21, 2025 Wednesday 9:00pm (mercredi 21h) *original timeslot* Thursday 12:30pm (jeudi 12h30) Thursday 8:30pm (jeudi 20h30) Friday 4:00pm (vendredi 16h) Monday 11:00am (lundi 11h) Both shows will be available on the TV Rogers YouTube site at a later date.
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The HSO team was happy to attend Ottawa’s Heritage Day celebrations at City Hall on February 18, 2025.
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It’s quiz time! Again this year, the Historical Society of Ottawa had the honour of preparing the 2025 “Great Ottawa History Challenge”, published every February during Heritage Week in the Ottawa Citizen. Here’s your chance to see how much you know about Ottawa’s past: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-history-quiz
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The HSO Blog has been live for a year! We launched this platform as an extension of our objective to preserve and increase public knowledge of the history of Ottawa, including its people and places. Our vision was to create a space where the history of the Ottawa area could be shared through an engaging blog platform. Thank you to all who have contributed and shared their interest in the blog! Be sure to catch up on past posts and other great HSO publications found under the publications section of…
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On the morning of December 2nd, 2024, eight members of the Historical Society of Ottawa attended the final presentation of the HIS4135 Canadian Digital History Course at the University of Ottawa, The class had taken on the project of digitizing several of the scrapbooks created by our founders, the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, (WCHSO), during the first half of the 20th Century. The students would then conduct some analysis of the contents of the scrapbooks. Their professor, Sarah Templier, explained that this project had been intended for a…
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