General News
Heritage Ottawa brings you heritage-related news and developments from Ottawa and the National Capital Region.
Ottawa’s cultural sector contributes greatly to our city’s economy and our enviable quality of life. Heritage Ottawa has joined with others to advance Ottawa as a vibrant capital for culture and…
APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 1, 2015
Heritage Ottawa invites applications for the Gordon Cullingham Research and Publication Grant. The grant program was created in 2008 and is named…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
On October 14 architect John Cook of GRC Architects presented an informative lecture on the origins and award-winning transformation of a local heritage building.
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OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler
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OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne
The chief operating officer of The Ottawa Hospital pushed to delay public consultations until a deal to build a new Civic campus on a 60-acre…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler
It looks as if Haunted Walk of Ottawa's long-running tours of the historic HI-Ottawa Jail Hostel may receive a stay of execution.
Last week it appeared…
Heritage Ottawa remains concerned about the proposed transfer of 64 acres of Central Experimental Farm lands for construction of a new hospital. The Central Experimental Farm is a National…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne
“Irreplaceable” experiments that contributed to the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 would be lost with the construction of The Ottawa Hospital’s new Civic…
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 Gordon Cullingham,…
Note from Heritage Ottawa - After the heritage structure at 7 Clarence Street was demolished in 2014 due to structural concerns, Heritage Ottawa worked hard to convince the NCC that the initial "…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Ottawa Architecture Week (OAW) is an annual week-long festival that celebrates…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Patrick Langston
Big-city museums are a treat, but the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Valley also brim with smaller museums offering keen insights into local history and the…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
In consultation with members of the New Edinburgh Community Alliance and Heritage Ottawa, City Heritage staff have drafted a new Heritage Conservation District Plan for New…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne
For decades, the islands in the Ottawa River surrounding Chaudière Falls have been all but invisible to area residents. Ground zero for Ottawa’s lumber…
THE NEW YORK TIMES / T MAGAZINE, By Witold Rybcznski
Once upon a time, the great architecture of the world was strictly local. Travelers seeking the wonders of London, Paris and Florence…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Bruce Deachman
In the second in a series examining the area’s islands, Bruce Deachman digs into the soil of Green Island and come up with what might well…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson
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OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler
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OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler
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OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Patrick Smith
Time travel machines may not exist, but the organizers of Bytown Days don't think that should stop you from taking a trip back in time.
The annual…
MACLEANS, By John Geddes
Larry Beasley, Vancouver’s celebrated former director of planning, is in demand for his expertise on urban design everywhere from Dallas to Rotterdam, Moscow…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler
The National Capital Commission has begun work with a team of consultants on an illumination…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Bruce Deachman
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HERITAGE OTTAWA
The Lowertown Community Association / Basseville Association Communitaire will celebrate the lively history of Dalhousie Street with free Heritage Walks in both English and…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
At the public meeting of the Ottawa Hospital held on June 24, 2015 Leslie Maitland, Past President of Heritage Ottawa and Dr. Clarke Topp, Professor Emeritus…
UPDATE, JULY 6, 2015 - Heritage Ottawa has followed up with City of Ottawa heritage staff concerning roof repairs underway on the Aberdeen Pavilion National Historic Site of Canada. Heritage…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Bruce Deachman
It’s difficult to imagine what Ottawa would look like today had city planner Jacques Gréber never set foot here. We would most certainly not have the…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
On June 26, 2015 the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Heritage Ottawa, and architects Barry Padolsky and Shirley Blumberg filed an application in the…
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, By Laura Beeston
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OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Anais Voski
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Heritage Ottawa, and two architects are challenging in federal court the National Capital Commission’s…
CBC NEWS, OTTAWA
Heritage and architecture supporters have banded together to file a federal lawsuit against the proposed memorial to victims of communism, one day after the National…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Today the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Heritage Ottawa, and architects Barry Padolsky and Shirley Blumberg began an application in the Federal Court…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
The Strutt House, an important modernist building in the Ottawa region designed in 1956 by architect James Strutt, will be benefiting from a conservation grant from The…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Blair Crawford
A coalition of architects, planners and landscape designers is urging National Capital Commission chairman Russell Mills to appeal directly to Prime…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
The National Capital Commission (NCC) will hold its Annual Public Meeting on Thursday, June 25.
Heritage Ottawa's President, David Jeanes, has registered the…
The National Arts Centre was a centennial project, built to mark a major milestone in Canadian history.
On Canada Day, a new exhibit entitled "Architecture and National Identity: The…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Blair Crawford
Gatineau’s iconic Strutt House, lauded by National Capital Commission CEO Mark Kristmanson as “a unique 20th century architectural treasure in the…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Heritage Ottawa's 2014-2015 lecture series concluded on a high note last week with a tremendous presentation by local historian Martha Edmond. Her illustrated talk entitled…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Alain Miguelez, city planner and amateur historian, has written a book about the 1950 master plan that transformed Ottawa. Richly illustrated with 1930s period photographs…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Bruce Deachman
With bagpipes and drums set to high importance, the group’s rendition of The Maple Leaf Forever announced the arrival there of Government Leader Peter Van…
HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Leslie Maitland
The Medical Arts Building has passed the first hurdle towards designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. At yesterday's meeting of…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler
It’s a plan more than a century in the making. And the Conservative government blithely ignored it when it designated a 5,000-square-metre property on…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
A public presentation hosted by Urban Forum will examine the Long Term Vision and Plan for Ottawa's Parliamentary and Judicial Precincts.
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OTTAWA CITIZEN, by Anais Voski
With 22 new sites this year, the 14th Doors Open Ottawa promises to be the largest and most promising one yet as more than 120 locations will open …
The Hill Times, By Tim Naumetz
Despite heavy construction, underground dynamiting and excavations on Parliament Hill, nearly all of the seven statues of distinguished former prime ministers…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Heritage Canada The National Trust released its 12th annual Top Ten Endangered Places list and Worst Losses List today.
The selection of endangered…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne
A large majority of Canadians — even among Conservative supporters — think the Conservative government’s planned memorial to the victims of communism…