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Ottawa Million Strong Project
An HSO story collection celebrating the diverse communities that constitute Ottawa’s cultural mosaic.
A Holocaust Testimonial: My Father’s Story / Phil Emberley
22 October 2026
Written by
Kathy Krywicki
Following WWII, approximately 40,000 Holocaust survivors resettled in Canada. Ottawa became home to many of those Holocaust survivors and hundreds of their descendants. Phil Emberley shares his father Dieter's experience as…
The Barber Family: Our Proud Place in Ottawa’s History / Tom Barber
22 October 2026
OHS
Born into slavery in Kentucky, Paul Barber, was one of Ottawa’s earliest Black permanent residents and a renowned horse trainer, founding a family that has made its mark in the…
The First Danes in Ottawa / Rolf Buschardt Christensen
22 October 2026
OHS
Although never very numerous, Danish immigrants to Ottawa quickly found each other and gathered socially, thus forming a distinct Danish community. They integrated quickly and effortlessly, while remaining proud of…
The Algonquin Anishinaabeg of the Ottawa River Valley: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow / Lynn Gehl
22 October 2026
HSO
Long before the recent arrival of non-Indigenous settlers, the Ottawa River Valley had, for millennia, been home to the Algonquin Anishinaabe people and their ancestors. Dr. Lynn Gehl, an Algonquinmakes…
The Anishinabek / James Powell
22 October 2026
HSO
Archaeological evidence suggests that the Ottawa Valley has been home to the AlgonquinAnishinaabe people and their ancestors for as many as 8,000 years. Long before the arrival of Europeans, the…
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