OTTAWA SUN | EDITORIAL

On Canada Day, we conjure up images of the big red-and-white birthday bash in front of Parliament, the crowds partying along Rideau Street, the families spilling into…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Joanne Laucius

Ottawa architect and heritage consultant Barry Padolsky has written an open letter to Justin Trudeau, asking the prime minister to step in to convince…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Kelly Egan

We don’t know much about the real people behind the Château Laurier addition. And we likely never will.

Larco Investments bought the historic property…

Councillor Mathieu Fleury tabled his "notice of motion" at the June 26 Council meeting, which passed by a narrow vote of 12-10.  As a result, the…

OTTAWA CITIZEN | By Kelly Egan

A neighbour asked a good question the other day.

If the National Capital Commission can’t influence the design of the Château Laurier addition, can’t…

GLOBE AND MAIL, By Penny Collenette

Can you ever fight city hall? It’s not easy, especially when the future of a national iconic symbol is relegated and degraded to a simple municipal…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The Board of Directors of Heritage Ottawa is pleased to announce the selection on May 27, 2019, of Richard Belliveau as its new president. Richard has served on the board…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

As part of Welcoming Ottawa Week (WOW), June 17 to 30, 2019, the Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership, Heritage Ottawa, City of Ottawa and the Department of Canadian…

CBC NEWS | By Kate Porter

The hugely controversial addition to the historic Château Laurier hotel can go ahead, Ottawa's planning committee voted Thursday.

Several city councillors…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

It might land the City of Ottawa in court, but a councillor will try to get city council to make a final decision on the Château Laurier’s controversial…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Click here for details: https://heritageottawa.org/chateau-laurier-…

DAILY COMMERCIAL NEWS, By Grant Cameron

A controversial design being proposed for an addition to the Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa – the fifth that has now been floated for approval – is…

OTTAWA CITIZEN | OPINION, By Bob Plamondon

"The building’s completely out of whack with what would be expected in a heritage district … It’s a ridiculous looking structure.”

These…

TORONTO STAR, By Penny Collenette

How do you protect what is perceived to be a public heritage space when it is privately owned? This very contentious issue is facing Ottawa’s City Council…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

An overwhelming number of the City of Ottawa’s official heritage protectors say council’s planning committee should reject the latest design of a proposed…

Built heritage subcommittee pans hotel addition, but has little power

CBC NEWS, By Joanne Chianello

The owners of the Château Laurier have no intention of making substantial changes…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa's David B. Flemming discussed the proposed addition with CTV NEWS OTTAWA this morning, in advance of today's meeting of the the Built Heritage…

Council abdicated political responsibility by approving it, sight unseen

CBC NEWS, By Joanne Chianello

If you hate the latest version of the Château Laurier hotel addition, and if…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa calls upon the province of Ontario to remove Schedule 11, which proposes changes to the Ontario Heritage Act, from Bill 108.

Regulations introduced to…

The Château Laurier is the linchpin of a historic capital city that Canadians can be proud of. Ottawa is about to wreck it.

Maclean's, By Stephen Maher

If you have never walked…

OTTAWA CITIZEN | OPINION By Peter Coffman

City staff has decreed that the latest design for an addition to the Château Laurier meets the standard of compatibility with the historic hotel…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The company that owns the Château Laurier is “tone-deaf” to criticisms piling up over the proposed addition to the historic hotel, Mayor Jim Watson said…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

City planners back the latest design of an addition to the Château Laurier, despite criticism that the expansion would sully the image of the heritage hotel…

CBC NEWS, By Joanne Chianello

The fifth — and possibly final — version of the controversial addition to Ottawa's iconic Château Laurier is now public, and while it's smaller in scale than…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The owner of the Château Laurier has filed what it hopes will be its last attempt at designing an addition to the historic hotel.

City staff on…

LE DROIT, Charles-Antoine Gagnon

Henry Cyr devra se trouver un nouvel endroit où jouer de la guitare.

Ce qu’il reste de l’immeuble où il s’était installé samedi matin à l’angle des…

CBC NEWS, By Kimberley Molina

Buried beneath the flowers, trees and statues dotting the grounds of Parliament Hill are the remnants of a military complex that predates both Confederation…

OPINION | OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Barry Padolsky

In 2027, The citizens of Ottawa will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the founding of Ottawa’s historic ByWard Market, one of Canada’s oldest…

HERITAGE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER (page 4), By Carolyn Quinn

Last December I had the privilege of touring the new Senate of Canada Building with some of the talented and committed people who…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

On April 29, 2019, the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) – the regulatory body created to replace the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) – ordered the City of Ottawa to issue…

and the

WHEN: Saturday, May 25, 2019 | 8:30am to 4:30pm…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Jane's Walk is an annual weekend festival of free neighbourhood walking tours throughout Ottawa-Gatineau, led by local citizens who care…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Peter Coffman

The following article by Heritage Ottawa Board Member Peter Coffman also appears in today's Ottawa Citizen.

The world watched transfixed as Notre-…

CBC NEWS Ottawa

More properties in Centretown could be designated as heritage buildings, as the city embarks on a heritage study of a much wider area than is currently recognized.

…

CBC NEWS Ottawa

Fire crews in Ottawa have a major blaze in the city's historic ByWard Market area under control.

Flames were first reported around 11:30 a.m. ET on the roof of…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The International Day of Monuments and Sites, also known as World Heritage Day, is marked each year on April 18.

On April 18, 2019 , ICOMOS Canada and NSERC CREATE…

The Aberdeen Pavilion, a National Historic Site of Canada also designated under the Ontario Heritage Act, requires repairs and major rehabilitation work.  The following is excerpted from an…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Members of the public are invited to attend two upcoming heritage events organized by Carleton University, taking place on April 26 and 27, 2019: the 2019 Herb Stovel…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa's Leslie Maitland appeared on CTV NEWS OTTAWA this morning to discuss two local heritage structures each facing a critical crossroads.

The latest…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa is pleased to report that City Council has passed a long-overdue increase to the Heritage Grant Program for Building Restoration in the 2019 City budget…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa recently learned that at least two of the city's most important heritage structures appear on a list of city-owned buildings available for corporate naming…

CBC NEWS, By Krystalle Ramlakhan

People in Hintonburg are still calling for the sidewalk around the partially-collapsed Magee House to be reopened.

Ever since the wall of the old…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

On February 6, Heritage Ottawa submitted a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding the future of 24 Sussex Drive. The letter was copied to the leaders of the…

Heritage Ottawa has been advocating for years for the conservation of 24 Sussex Drive, a classified federal heritage building. ( See our recent letter of February 6, 2019 to the PM.) The following…

HERITAGE OTTAWA | STATEMENT OF MARCH 4, 2019

For more than two years, Canadians have been witnessing with growing concern a sequence of various design proposals for an addition to the…

Following today's release of the latest design for the Chateau Laurier addition, the following report was posted to CBCNews.ca

CBC NEWS, By Ryan Tumilty

The developer behind the…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Excellence in preservation of Ottawa's architectural heritage was recognized at last week's 2019 Ottawa Heritage Awards, held at the University of Ottawa's Alex Trebek…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa took advantage of the celebratory Heritage Day mood at City Hall on February 19 to present our annual Gordon Cullingham Research and Publication Fund to…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

A city staff report recommending designation of the Booth Street Complex as a property of cultural heritage value under the Ontario Heritage Act (OHA) received the support…

BILL 66 AND ALL THAT

OHA+M BLOG (Ontario Heritage Act and More), By Dan Schneider

I have been putting off writing about Bill 66, the proposed Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act…