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Heritage Ottawa brings you heritage-related news and developments from Ottawa and the National Capital Region.
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.
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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.
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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…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Longtime Heritage Ottawa volunteer Andrew Elliott, an archivist at Library and Archives Canada, shares his passion for Ottawa's historic streetscapes in a new series of…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Registration is now open for the Ontario Heritage Conference taking place in Ottawa from June 8 - 10.
This year's conference theme is Canada 150: The Past, Present…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne
It will cost at least $11 million to clean up the site of the former Sir John Carling building to make room for a new Civic hospital, Public Services and…
CBC NEWS OTTAWA
Images of a proposed addition to Ottawa's historic Somerset House given to city staff provide the first glimpse of a long-awaited redesign of the heritage building, but…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, by Jon Willing
Another design application to transform the once-grand Somerset House is hitting the political agenda, with the building owner inching closer to seeking…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Our heritage stands at a critical crossroads.
A controversial application for major alterations to Ottawa's Château Laurier, if allowed to proceed as proposed,…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
The National Capital Commission (NCC)…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Owners of designated heritage buildings may be eligible for a matching grant of up to $5,000 from the City of Ottawa's Heritage Grant Program for Building…
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, By Kate Taylor
Here’s an idea whose time has come: Why doesn’t Canada establish a national portrait gallery in Ottawa and house it in the old U.S. embassy building…
HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Linda Dicaire
In honour of the annual Phillips Memorial Lecture and at the invitation of Heritage Ottawa, the Global Centre for Pluralism…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Dave Reevely
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By Andrew Waldron
In recent years, we have sadly lost several pioneering heritage conservationists in Canada. Last week, Barb Humphreys, who was one of the pillars of heritage conservation…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
UPDATE | March 3, 2017: Designs by five finalists for a new Monument to the Victims of Communism are now available for review on the Government of Canada's website.
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