Events

Learn more about Ottawa's history and heritage at these popular events hosted by Heritage Ottawa.

Our annual FREE LECTURE SERIES runs from September to June.

Our annual WALKING TOUR events begin in June and continues to October.

To view the now completed 2024 walking tour schedule, click WALKING TOURS below. 

Heritage Ottawa's other annual events are listed in the right-hand column. Just click the one you want. 

 

Lecture Series

  • The Origins and Significance of Residential Gothic Architecture in Ottawa
    The Origins and Significance of Residential Gothic Architecture in Ottawa
    Friday, September 26, 2014 - 09:00 to Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 17:00
    Carleton University, River Building
    Ottawa, ON
    Canada

    The competition for design of the Parliament Buildings in the late 1850s drew to Ottawa several English architects who introduced popular Gothic domestic forms that helped transform the housing stock of a rough lumber town to befit a...

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Walking Tours

  • Beaverbrook
    Sunday, October 6, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:30
    MEET: Beaverbrook Mall, West Parking Lot
    (in front of Community Centre)
    1002 Beaverbrook Road, West of Teron Road
    Kanata, ON K2K 1L1
    Canada

    SOLD OUT

    Beaverbrook represents one of the first and the most complete examples in Canada of a fully designed community based on 20th century urban planning concepts. Bill Teron created Beaverbrook in the mid-...

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