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Heritage Ottawa brings you heritage-related news and developments from Ottawa and the National Capital Region.

  • Heritage Ottawa Walking Tours 2025
    Saturday, June 28, 2025

    WELCOME TO OUR 2025 WALKING TOUR SEASON! 

    Join our experienced guides and enjoy tours that highlight some of Ottawa's most interesting architecture and historic neighbourhoods, and the...

  • Shannan proposes new life for Algonquin College’s Perth Campus
    Friday, June 27, 2025

    HOMETOWN NEWS, by Heddy Sorour

    With Algonquin College set to shutter its Perth campus, a prominent local resident is stepping up with an ambitious plan to turn the site into a world-class...

  • Skepticism, cautious optimism as work on Somerset House begins
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025

    CBC News Ottawa

    There's skepticism about whether substantial renewal work has finally begun on Somerset House, which has sat derelict for nearly 18 years in the heart of Ottawa's...

  • Rebuild of fire-damaged Vittoria Trattoria in the ByWard Market set to begin next month
    Monday, June 16, 2025

    Ottawa Business Journal, by Mia Jenson

    Six years after his restaurant in the ByWard Market was destroyed by fire, the owner of Vittoria Trattoria said construction of the new building is...

  • Major Construction begins on Historic Somerset House in Ottawa
    Friday, June 6, 2025

    CTV NEWS, by Josh Pringle 

    Major construction is set to begin Friday at Somerset House, the historic building in the heart of Ottawa’s Centretown neighbourhood.

    The 129-year-old...

  • Ottawa Citizen: Why So Many Ottawa Heritage Buildings Sit Empty and Decaying
    Thursday, May 29, 2025

    Heritage Ottawa has been fighting demolition-by-neglect for years. According to the City, one of Ottawa’s most notorious heritage eyesores is finally being repaired. However dozens more are still...

  • Coffman: Church of St-François-d’Assise is a heritage gem, Archdiocese objections aside
    Thursday, May 22, 2025

    Ottawa Citizen | OPINION by Peter Coffman

    As a Hintonburger and an architectural historian, I was delighted when the Built Heritage Committee voted on May 13 to recommend heritage...

  • Ottawa Heritage Communities Post-Pandemic Gathering
    Tuesday, May 20, 2025

    Heritage Ottawa, in cooperation with the Lowertown Community Association, hosted an evening get-together of community association representatives and others interested in protecting Ottawa’s...

  • 2025 Ottawa Regional Heritage Fair
    Tuesday, May 20, 2025

    HERITAGE OTTAWA

    Heritage Ottawa is delighted to announce that Michael Mashologu of Ottawa’s Glashan Middle School was the winner of Heritage Ottawa’s award at the 2025 Ottawa Regional...

  • Remembering David Flemming
    Tuesday, April 29, 2025

    Ottawa ON, April 29, 2025 -- Heritage Ottawa mourns the loss of our former President and outstanding volunteer, David Flemming, who died peacefully on April 25, 2025 at the University of Ottawa...

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