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…

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,…

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

Proposed 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.

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…

CBC News, By Kate Porter

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…