General News
Heritage Ottawa brings you heritage-related news and developments from Ottawa and the National Capital Region.
AZURE MAGAZINE, By Daniel Viola
A painful history of colonization long kept Indigenous people in Canada from creating their own buildings. Today, Indigenous architects are growing in number…
By Peter Coffman, Carleton University
First the good news: the federal government is serious about establishing an indigenous cultural centre in the nation’s capital. This is badly needed…
CBC NEWS, By Kathleen Harris
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked National Aboriginal Day by promising to strip the name of a residential schools proponent from a federal building and to…
CTV NEWS, By Sonja Puzic
The federal government has announced plans to convert the former U.S. embassy across from Parliament Hill into a space dedicated to Canada’s indigenous people.…
iPOLITICS, By James Munson
For a long stretch of Canadian history, the building with the easiest access to Parliament Hill was the U.S. embassy.
In a few years, it will be a building…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Take a journey through Ottawa's Chinatown, Lowertown and Little Italy during Welcoming Ottawa Week (WOW), beginning today and running to June 30, 2017.
WOW is an…
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, By Dave Leblanc
“This young man is going far,” said the legend, Frank Lloyd Wright, of James Strutt in the late 1940s.
Wright was known to be sparing with praise…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By David Reevely
As rumours of war grew in Europe in 1937, Paris hosted a grand exhibition. In the shadow of the great pavilions of the International Exposition of Art and…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Tobi Nussbaum
As Ottawa played host to the 2017 Ontario Heritage Conference last weekend, I have been reflecting on the key questions of heritage conservation.
How…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Just in time for summer and Canada 150, a new book celebrates architectural heritage in the Ottawa-Gatineau region with 11 unique, self-guided tours of interest to local…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson
Downtown Ottawa’s most infamous eyesore has made a national list of endangered heritage landmarks.
Somerset House is among 10 spots included on the…
CBC NEWS, By Catherine Cullen
In the shadow of the Peace Tower, it is one of the most coveted pieces of real estate in Canada.
Now CBC News has learned the former site of the United…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson
Although a portrait gallery would have been his preferred use for the former U.S. embassy across from Parliament Hill, Mayor Jim Watson welcomed news…
CBC NEWS OTTAWA
Rideau Hall, the Bank of Canada building and 10 local embassies are some of this year's new attractions for the 2017 edition of Doors Open Ottawa this weekend.
The…
CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Joanne Chianello
For those who worry that developers have too much access, too much sway and just too much contact generally with city hall, a recent hours-long debate…
Heritage Ottawa invites you to attend its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, May 25 at the Glebe Community Centre.
General business will be conducted from 7:00 to 7:30 pm, followed…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson
The year-old plan that protects Rockcliffe Park’s heritage buildings passed its first test on Wednesday when city council rejected an application to…
CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Matthew Kupfer
In an effort to improve monitoring of vacant and boarded-up heritage buildings, the city's Heritage Matters Task Force has created a list of vacant,…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
UPDATE | May 24: Ottawa City Council has voted in favour of the recommendations of city staff, the Built Heritage Subcommittee and Heritage Ottawa to refuse the…
CBC RADIO'S OTTAWA MORNING | CBC NEWS
Hearings were long and expensive under old rules, says Hintonburg Community Association MemberProposed changes to the Ontario Municipal Board will…
METRO NEWS OTTAWA, By Haley Ritchie
The Ontario government is planning to replace the controversial Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) with a new system for planning appeals that would embolden…
CBC NEWS OTTAWA
The winning design for a memorial to the victims of communism in downtown Ottawa has been chosen.
Toronto architect and artist Paul Raff created the design with…
CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Joanne Chianello
After a years-long process involving Ottawa municipal officials, community groups and landlords, a community design plan was approved for Wellington…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Some thirty members, volunteers and other heritage enthusiasts joined Heritage Ottawa on Saturday, May 13 for an enjoyable day-trip to historic Perth, Ontario.
A…
UPDATE | MAY 16: See a livestream of the Grand Opening of the new Global Centre for Pluralism with the Aga Khan and dignitaries, beginning at 10:30 am.
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew…
UPDATE | MAY 16: See a livestream of the Grand Opening of the new Global Centre for Pluralism with the Aga Khan and dignitaries, beginning at 10:30 am.
OTTAWA MAGAZINE, By Hattie…
CBC NEWS | OTTAWA, By Trevor Pritchard
Jarring. Box-like. A post-modern disaster. But also: respectful?
Those are just a few of the ways people are describing a proposed glass-and-…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Update: Read Heritage Ottawa's position statement of March 5, 2018 regarding the latest proposed addition to the Château Laurier.
A summary of public comments…
CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Jennifer Chevalier
UPDATE | May 11: Lowertown's Macdonald Gardens is on course to become an official heritage space after Ottawa's built heritage sub-committee…
CBC RADIO, SUNDAY EDITION with Michael Enright
"Façadism" — the practice of maintaining the façade of a historic building while erecting a new building behind — has become a common…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Carleton University and Historic Ottawa Development Inc. (HODI) have announced the winners of the 2017 HODI Award for Built Heritage Conservation.
Established in 2015…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Did you know that citizens of Ottawa could once learn ballroom dancing or how to ride a bicycle… on the top floor of Somerset House?
These and other fun facts were…
CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Joanne Chianello
A provincial program that forces municipalities to give property tax rebates to owners of vacant properties is one step closer to being cancelled after…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
UPDATE | JUNE 8 2017: You can register for the Ontario Heritage Conference today, June 8, at Ottawa City Hall (110 Laurier Avenue West) from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
At its meeting today at City Hall, Heritage Ottawa president David Jeanes told the City of Ottawa's Finance and Economic Development Committee (FEDCO) that municipal…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Two new books about the historic St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church in New Edinburgh will be celebrated at a book launch this Sunday, May 7.
Faithful, by Janet Uren…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Lynn Saxberg
It was the home of Ottawa architect James Strutt and his family. Built on the Eardley Escarpment in the Gatineau Hills in 1956, its design is considered a…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Join Heritage Ottawa on a special day-long field trip to historic Perth!
We'll have an insider tour of the Heritage Institute at Algonquin College's…
THIS WEEKEND: MAY 6 - 7, 2017
Visit the Jane's Walk website for the full schedule of events!
Jane's Walk is a weekend festival of free neighbourhood walking tours…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing
The latest renovation concept for the historic Somerset House received approval from the city’s heritage panel Thursday, but members walked away, again, with…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Dylan C. Robertson
More than half of Canada’s sitting senators have asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to create a National Portrait Gallery in the former U.S. embassy…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing
An old, fire-damaged house in the Centretown heritage conservation district shouldn’t be saved, the planning committee decided Tuesday.
The…
CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Kate Porter
The City of Ottawa has wrapped up an exhaustive inventory of vacant heritage buildings, but that won't save one such structure in Centretown from the…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
The School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University presents its 12th annual Graduate Student Heritage Conservation Symposium on April 22, 2017.
“…
Le Droit, by Daniel Leblanc
Une maison victorienne abandonnée dont la construction remonte à la fin du 19e siècle dans le quartier Centretown à Ottawa ne sera pas sauvegardée et risque…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
In a move that is not sitting well with all residents, over 20 streets in Ottawa's Kitchissippi Ward are currently targeted for renaming.
Since amalgamation in 2001,…
CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Paul Jay
If a proposed addition to Ottawa's historic Somerset House doesn't look quite like the original red brick facade the city tore down last summer, there appears…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson
The National Capital Commission has approved the transfer of federal land on Carling Avenue, paving the way for construction of a new $2-billion…
