HERITAGE OTTAWA

The Ottawa Cultural Alliance (OCA) is a collaboration between six organizations, including Heritage Ottawa, working together to help strengthen and advance Ottawa's cultural…

OTTAWA MAGAZINE, By Lisa Gregoire

Tim Murray carefully climbs the stairs in an abandoned church he designed more than 50 years ago on what were, in the 1960s, farm fields on the outskirts…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa has been honoured with an award from the National Trust for Canada.

Presented on Friday evening at St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, The National…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Main streets often include heritage buildings that are important elements of a city's identity and character. But as our cities and towns inevitably intensify, it's critical…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa invites applications for the Gordon Cullingham Research and Publication Grant.  The grant program was created in 2008 and is named in honour of the late…

CENTRETOWN NEWS, By Kelly Millar and Nate Dove

Carleton University has already received offers of major donations for the possible purchase of Dominion-Chalmers United Church as a…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

A research project by Hagit Hadaya, a recipient of Heritage Ottawa's GORDON CULLINGHAM RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION GRANT, has culminated in the publication of a book, At Home…

THE HTA BLOG / By Peter Coffman

I addressed the City’s Planning Committee today as it met to vote on additions to the Heritage Register recommended last month by City staff. I blogged about…

CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Laura Osman

The City of Ottawa's planning committee added hundreds of properties to the city's heritage register, but agreed to hold off on eight buildings because the…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Leslie Maitland, Co-Chair

The Heritage Inventory Project is a priority for the City of Ottawa. The Inventory Project was created to develop a proper Heritage Register to…

CBC News, By Laura Osman

Just four years ago, Ottawa heritage consultant David Flemming walked…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Cities value their unique heritage. Cultural and ecological benefits aside, studies have shown that designated heritage properties perform better than average in the real…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Mark Brandt and Carolyn Quinn

Heritage Ottawa is pleased to share this remarkable video tribute that celebrates the contributions of eight heritage conservation "…

THE HTA BLOG / By Peter Coffman

Early last year, the City of Ottawa began what’s known as the Heritage Inventory Project. The idea was to enable…

CBC NEWS, By Kristy Nease

The National Capital Commission (NCC) is falling behind on keeping its properties in good condition and didn't properly inform the government about the steps it…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

When Carleton University heads found out three of the school’s buildings were poised to land on a city heritage register, they couldn’t comprehend how such a…

METRO NEWS, By Kieran Delamont

City staff are recommending that 358 buildings—or, roughly 11 per cent of Old Ottawa East and Ottawa South—be added to the heritage register.

Done as…

CBC NEWS, By Andrew Foote

The National Capital Commission is inviting the public to help it dig, sift and scrape its way through the capital's history this August as part of its annual…

OTTAWA BUSINESS JOURNAL

Nearly a decade after the Rideau Canal was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the federal government is looking to construct a series of interpretive “nodes” to…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa is saddened to learn of the passing of John Arnold (1934-2017), a long serving member of our Board of Directors until his retirement in 2010. 

A…

Heritage Ottawa has long advocated for the restoration and adaptive reuse of heritage structures which contribute so much to our urban fabric. A new study indicates that 80% of millenials in the…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The Library and Archives Canada Preservation Centre in Gatineau, seldom open to the public, will soon begin offering guided tours in both English and French.

The…

CBC NEWS, By Joanne Chianello

When Ottawa city council gave Ashcroft Homes approval to develop the former Westboro convent lands, it was with the understanding that the developer would…

CBC News, By Laurie Fagan

Sheena Pritchard has lived in her Echo Drive home for 53 years and while she has no plans to move or renovate, she doesn't want the city adding her house — along…

CBC NEWS, By Joanne Chianello

An Ottawa city councillor fed up with the proliferation of what he calls high-occupancy "bunkhouses" in his ward is invoking a new rule that will force the…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

Eliane Major remembers her brothers helping Lester B. Pearson push his car out of the snowy driveway of 231 Cobourg St. in the 1950s, when her family lived…

CBC News, By Joanne Chianello

Peter Hume, a former Ottawa city councillor and planning committee chair, has been picked to oversee the revitalization of the the ByWard and Parkdale markets…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Joanne Laucius

The NAC is throwing open its doors to the public on Canada Day to offer a look at the first phase of a project aimed at turning Ottawa’s fortress-like…

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,…