General News
Heritage Ottawa brings you heritage-related news and developments from Ottawa and the National Capital Region.
CTV NEWS Ottawa, By Ted Raymond
Ottawa city council has approved a plan to impose a one per cent tax rate on vacant homes in the city.
The tax would be included in a homeowner's…
Ottawa Citizen | Opinion, By George Bruce Levine
The future of the 120-year-old Alexandra Bridge across the Ottawa River has been the subject of several scenarios, none of which presents a…
Five years ago, Heritage Ottawa began questioning the City's policy of reducing the tax rate for vacant buildings. It was felt that this only encouraged demolition-by-neglect by providing an…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Carleton University and the board of directors of Historic Ottawa Development Inc. (HODI) have announced the winners of the 2021 HODI Award in Built Heritage…
CBC OTTAWA
A group made up of heritage, transportation and environmental advocates has formed to oppose plans to demolish and rebuild the 120-year-old Alexandra Bridge between…
This article first appeared in the March 2021 issue of the Heritage Ottawa Newsletter.
By Carolyn Quinn
The Centre Block rehabilitation project is being called the “renovation of…
The Federal Government proposes to demolish the Alexandra Bridge.
The Alexandra Bridge Coalition …
National Trust for Canada
The National Trust Endangered Places List shines a national spotlight on heritage places at risk, from places of faith to Indigenous…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
LPAT RULING UPDATE: The Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) Settlement Hearing pertaining to the proposed addition to the Château Laurier was held on April 19,…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
UPDATE: The Minister for Environment and Climate Change responsible for Parks Canada has submitted his Report and Response to the 2020 Parks Canada Ministerial Round Table…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
The School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University presents its 15th annual Graduate Student Heritage Conservation Symposium. This year, the online format…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
On March 31, 2021, Heritage Ottawa submitted comments to Parks Canada on its draft 2021-2031 Management Plan for the Rideau Canal National Historic Site.
Built…
In late February City Council approved the redevelopment and intensification of two important properties in Centretown: the historic Andrew Fleck House at 593 Laurier Avenue West…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Heritage Ottawa has sent a letter to the Mayor and Councillors supporting Ottawa City Council’s Motion of February 24 approving a letter from Mayor Watson to the…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Following a property standards inspection in February which revealed multiple violations, the City of Ottawa has issued orders to the owner of Barrymore's Music Hall.…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Welcome news! The National Capital Commission (NCC) will be undertaking a rehabilitation project on the historic Rochon Residence, beginning on March 15.
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Ottawa Citizen, By Jon Willing
It’s finally lights out for the design controversy over the addition to the Château Laurier.
City council on Wednesday voted 14-10 in favour of the…
Global News, by Craig Lord
The long saga finally seems to be over: Ottawa city council has approved the sixth design iteration of the Château Laurier’s proposed addition, the result…
StittsvilleCentral.ca | by Lesley McKay
The Bradley-Craig farmstead is located on Hazeldean Road – Stittsville’s long-standing historic landmark with its 147 year old red dairy ‘bank …
HERITAGE OTTAWA
A longstanding dispute between the owner of Barrymore’s Nightclub and his landlord is calling attention to yet another local example of demolition by neglect.
The…
Ottawa Citizen, By Jon Willing
The majority of councillors on the planning committee have endorsed what one Ottawa heritage architect called a C-grade design for the Château Laurier…
CTV NEWS, By Josh Pringle
After years of controversy and several proposed designs, a city of Ottawa committee has given the green light to a new expansion at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier…
CBC NEWS, By Kate Porter
Hotel owners worked with Heritage Ottawa to find 'acceptable' solutionYet another redesign for an addition to the historic Fairmont Château Laurier hotel…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
The City of Ottawa is currently accepting applications for the Heritage Grant for Building Restoration program.
Property owners of buildings designated under Part…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
The city’s built-heritage subcommittee and planning committee will meet jointly on February 5 to consider the revised design and site plan for the Château Laurier hotel…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Carleton University professors Tonya Davidson (Sociology) and David Dean (History), editors of a book entitled Monumental Memories: A Critical Reading of Memorials,…
GLOBE AND MAIL | Opinion, by Toon Dreessen, OAA, FRAIC
Our built heritage – the cultural institutions that house our democracy, our collections of art or our…
The British High Commission (BHC) recently announced it has awarded the contract for the construction of a new office building and gatehouse on the grounds of Earnscliffe, the…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing
The complicated work of encouraging home construction, shoehorning small apartment complexes into Ottawa’s oldest neighbourhoods and satisfying neighbours…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing
The built-heritage subcommittee on Tuesday was deadlocked on a decision to allow a developer, on the request of a school board, to demolish part of the…
CBC Ottawa, by Kate Porter
A city committee that deals with heritage buildings was evenly divided Tuesday over a plan to alter a former school for priests in Old Ottawa…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Peter Coffman
After nearly four years of resistance, re-design, protest and even legal action, we now have a proposal for the addition to the Château Laurier that has…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Read the media coverage of Heritage Ottawa's announcement of having reached an agreement with the owner of the Château Laurier hotel on a new design for the proposed…
HERITAGE OTTAWA | Media Release
HERITAGE OTTAWA is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with Capital Hotel Limited Partnership, an affiliate of Larco Investments Ltd., and…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Heritage Ottawa is delighted to announce that two projects will receive funding from the Gordon Cullingham Research and Publication Fund.
Susan Ross, associate…
The Deschâtelets Building at 225 Scholastic Drive was purchased along with the Oblate Lands by The Regional Group in 2014 to be developed as part of Greystone Village. An important landmark in Old…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Ottawa's Built Heritage Sub-Committee (BHSC) has voted 6-1 against a City Staff Report recommendation to not pursue heritage designation for 860 Colonel By Drive.
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This article appeared in the May 2020 issue of the Heritage Ottawa Newsletter.
HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Alison Smith
In 1961, the British Columbia Scouts gifted a totem pole to Scouts…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Nearly two years after its partial collapse, one of Ottawa's most infamous properties is up for sale.
Magee House, a historic landmark on Hintonburg's Wellington…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
We're sharing some of our favorite 3D virtual tours of local museums, heritage houses and online collections.
VIRTUAL TOURS and EXHIBITIONS | Ottawa Area:ByTown…