HERITAGE DAY 2025!

Celebrate this year's theme "Heritage champions – crafting a legacy of preservation and innovation".

Join us at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, February 18 at Jean Pigott Place, City Hall for a celebration of Heritage Day. We will have a booth at the Marketplace there and we hope you will stop by and say hello. 

Heritage Day is organized by Capital Heritage Connexion in partnership with the City of Ottawa Cultural and Heritage Programs Branch. 

Why celebrate Heritage Day?

Our collective story is told through our special places, whether they are historic buildings or sites, archives, libraries, museums, commercial mainstreets or districts, places of faith, industrial areas, or cultural landscapes. Our shared heritage in all forms has the power to bring people together. 

Heritage Day is also a chance to recognize the contributions of the many dedicated volunteers and staff who promote heritage conservation and education. In 2023, Heritage Ottawa was honoured to be the recipient of the mayor's Heritage Day proclamation.  

More on offer during Heritage Week!

HERITAGE OTTAWA'S ANNUAL PHILLIPS MEMORIAL LECTURE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2025 | 7 PM | VIA ZOOM | PREREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED

The Ontario Heritage Act Turns 50! The good, the bad, and the beautiful, is a free panel presentation on the history, implementation and challenges associated with this seminal piece of legislation. 

Heritage Ottawa has also curated a collection of links to Virtual Tours of museums, galleries, historic sites and other cultural centres, along with an interesting collection of Lectures + Films that are FREE to stream online.  Search EXPLORE on our main menu to discover these and other resources.

Also on our website, discover Ottawa's history and heritage through 50 Years | 50 Stories, a special project telling the illustrated stories of 50 places that Heritage Ottawa helped to save during our first 50 years of advocacy efforts.

We welcome and appreciate your support. Consider joining Heritage Ottawa as a member, or making a donation by clicking here on our secure CanadaHelps webpage.