Beginning on April 2, 2025, subscribers to Rogers TV will be able to enjoy a fascinating new weekly series, “Time Travelling with the Historical Society of Ottawa”, a collaboration between Rogers TV and the HSO.

Each week's new episode will air Wednesday @ 7:30 p.m. and then be rebroadcast Friday at 5:30 p.m. and the following Tuesday @ 10:00 a.m.

Here is the schedule of upcoming episodes and our featured presenters:

Wednesday, April 2 @ 7:30 p.m.
"Go Exploring" with Paul Weber

Wednesday, April 9 @ 7:30 p.m.
"Glimpses of Forgotten Ottawa" with Kevin Ballantyne

Wednesday, April 16 @ 7:30 p.m.
"Philemon Wright and his town" with Rick Henderson

Wednesday, April 23 @ 7:30 p.m.
"Gord Atkinson: Ottawa's Oldest Teenager" with Peter Atkinson

Wednesday, April 30 @ 7:30 p.m.
"Bytown 1847: Elisabeth Bruyere and the Irish Famine Refugees" with Michael McBane

Wednesday, May 7 @ 7:30 p.m.
"Ottawa's Golden Age of Rock and Roll" with Jim Hurcomb

Future episodes will feature presentations by Jean-Luc Pilon, Paul Couvrette, Christine Jackson, Leo Doyle, and Jean-Marie Guerrier.

In addition, a series of French-language episodes have been been recorded to be broadcast on Rogers TV Cable 23.

All episodes were recording last Fall at the Rockcliffe Park pavilion, courtesy of the National Capital Commission.

After initial exclusive broadcast on Rogers TV, the series will be made accessible on the HSO website at a later date.

On the evening of Wednesday, October 9, 2024, the Historical Society of Ottawa delved into its own past with an exploration of the early decades of the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa (WCHSO) and the remarkable women who formed and ran it. We were pleased to again welcome Connie Wren-Gunn, who reprised the session she had presented at our 125^th Birthday Bash in the summer of 2023. Connie is a professional historian, being the Director, Content & Interpretative Products for Know History. She holds an M.A. in History from Carleton University and is an accomplished writer and passionate researcher.

Connie explained that the women who founded the WCHSO were primarily women of privilege, from prominent local families, who were also responsible for the formation and operation of many other organizations and charities within Ottawa. Women had few rights in the late 1890s, and a number of organizations were created by women, such as the National Council of Women and the International Order of the Daughters of the Empire, which were focused on improving the position of women in society. Although a number of working women were involved in the formation of the WCHSO, they did not remain active with the organization for long. This may be due, in part, to the WCHSO holding its meetings on weekday afternoons.

Connie pointed out that the women who formed the WCHSO were trailblazers, giving women a voice they had never had before. Although some 20 Historical Societies were formed in Canada between 1869 and 1900, the WCHSO was the only one formed and managed entirely by women. It was also the first Canadian Historical Society to send a delegate to the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Jenny Simpson, in 1909.

Connie then gave us the story of the founding of the WCHSO starting from June, 1898 when thirty-one women met at the home of Matilda Edgar, the wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons. Their goal was to promote and preserve the history of Ottawa through publications and through the collection of artifacts. This collection eventually grew into the Bytown Museum, which opened in October 1917. The WCHSO was run as a formal organization, with a constitution, bylaws, officers with assigned responsibilities, scheduled meetings and a membership fee, initially 50 cents yearly, which was not raised until the 1930s. They also published a detailed annual report, which they began after about a decade of operation. The formality of the organization was an important point, as they realized that it would be too easy for them to be perceived simply as a group of ladies, sitting around, sipping tea and chatting. They were serious in what they were doing and wanted everyone to understand it.

Connie went on to describe some of the activities undertaken by the WCHSO in their early years. These included fundraising, money always being in short supply, the creation of scrapbooks based on local news clippings, see the link below, the staging of two major exhibitions of local artifacts and the lobbying of governments for the preservation of historic sites and the creation of plaques and monuments to honour significant events, such as Confederation, and  individuals, chief among these being Lieutenant-Colonel John By.

She then told us a bit about Transactions, a journal published by the WCHSO, which consisted of 10 volumes appearing between 1901 and 1928, which contained over 130 essays. Most of these papers were written by WCHSO members, and although some were based on archival documents, most were based on previously published books, or recorded the memories of local families. Much of the focus of the papers was on early life in Bytown and the Ottawa valley, reflecting the hardships faced and overcome by the early settlers.

Connie explained that in the early part of the 20^th century, universities began introducing mandatory methodologies for historical research for their graduate students requiring original research based solely on written archival documents. This professionalization of history discounted the work of passionate amateurs, such as the women of the WCHSO. Perhaps in response to the growing criticism from professional historians, the WCHSO modified their content of Transactions, reducing them in size and increasing the number of articles written by men. Connie pointed out that in the volume published in 1922, seven of the ten articles were written by men. The WCHSO, perhaps as a further response, shifted its focus away from its writings to the collection and preservation of artifacts in the Bytown Museum.  

In 1956 the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa became simply the Historical Society of Ottawa.

A full recording of Connie’s session can be viewed at: The Story of Us - The (Women's Canadian) Historical Society of Ottawa Est. 1898.

Connie’s Master’s Thesis can be read in full at: Etd | The Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Constructing Public Memory and Preserving History in a Changing City, 1898-1932 | ID: j67314577 | Hyrax

The work performed by the 4^th year Digital History class of the University of Ottawa on the scrapbooks created by the WCHSO can be viewed at: Ottawa U Scrapbooking Ottawa History - The Historical Society of Ottawa

The Historical Society of Ottawa has a page on its website dedicated to the WCHSO, which can be viewed at:   WCHSO - The Historical Society of Ottawa  

The Historical Society of Ottawa (established as the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa in 1898) has been spreading awareness of Ottawa's fascinating past for 126+ years, including founding and operating the Bytown Museum for eight decades. Join us for an exploration of the beginnings and legacy of one of Canada's oldest historical societies. Guest speaker: Connie Wren-Gunn.

The HSO Blog has been live for a year! We launched this platform as an extension of our objective to preserve and increase public knowledge of the history of Ottawa, including its people and places. Our vision was to create a space where the history of the Ottawa area could be shared through an engaging blog platform.

Thank you to all who have contributed and shared their interest in the blog!

Be sure to catch up on past posts and other great HSO publications found under the publications section of our website.

As always, if you are interested in writing for the blog, please get in contact with us by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We are always excited to see what fascinating stories make their way to us and can’t wait to see what this year brings!

The HSO Blog has been live for a year! We launched this platform as an extension of our objective to preserve and increase public knowledge of the history of Ottawa, including its people and places. Our vision was to create a space where the history of the Ottawa area could be shared through an engaging blog platform.

Thank you to all who have contributed and shared their interest in the blog!

Be sure to catch up on past posts and other great HSO publications found under the publications section of our website.

As always, if you are interested in writing for the blog, please get in contact with us by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We are always excited to see what fascinating stories make their way to us and can’t wait to see what this year brings!

On the morning of December 2nd, 2024, eight members of the Historical Society of Ottawa attended the final presentation of the HIS4135 Canadian Digital History Course at the University of Ottawa, The class had taken on the project of digitizing several of the scrapbooks created by our founders, the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, (WCHSO), during the first half of the 20^th Century. The students would then conduct some analysis of the contents of the scrapbooks. Their professor, Sarah Templier, explained that this project had been intended for a few years previous, but the pandemic shutdown access to the City of Ottawa Archives and so to the scrapbooks. She went on to explain that scrapbooks were selected, in part, on their completeness. Scrapbooks that contained a lot of loose articles just stuck between the pages were not used as they would have required a lot more work to assemble them prior to digitization. There were other scrapbooks, created by individuals and donated to the WCHSO, but these were not investigated, the research being restricted to what the WCHSO, as an organization, selected. Five full scrapbooks were however digitized and are now available online for the first time.

The class was divided into teams of three students, each focussed on a different theme, and not all working with the same digitized scrapbooks. The themes investigated were: Arts and Culture, Prominent People, Women in Sport, Women in the Public Sphere and Military History. There were some general observations common to most groups despite their specific research areas. Many commented that it was interesting to see what each scrapbooker felt was worth preserving. Equally interesting was what was “missing” from the scrapbook. They could not determine if those items we would deem today as “missing” were not collected because they were not covered by the local newspapers at that time, were not considered to be of sufficient significance or not of interest to that particular scrapbooker. It was also noted that although the scrapbooks were generally in date order, there were also cases where it seemed that articles had been placed onto pages where they would fit so as not to waste the space. Many of the scrapbookers dated their items, but the exact source was seldom preserved.. There seems to have been little collected on what we would now call marginalized communities or immigrant communities. The identification of women proved a constant frustration as, in that period, married women were identified as “Mrs. Someone”, with the resulting loss of connection to their former families and accomplishments. All groups displayed their project web pages and discussed how they had integrated additional research, such as photos, videos or sound recordings to enhance the experience of the viewer, and how they had incorporated maps, word clouds and juxta positioning of findings to produce the same effect.

The Arts and Culture team noted that, despite the lack of government funding, there was a lot of activity in and interest in the cultural landscape of Ottawa. There was also a more diverse population represented in the scrapbooks, including frequent references to Jewish theatre. A map of cultural venues was displayed. Also of interest were a number of famous individuals in the field, especially Yousuf Karsh, who were featured.  

The Prominent People team discovered that while some people who garner significant mention in the scrapbooks are still well known today, such as Thomas D’Arcy McGee, others are virtually unknown to the digital world. They also found that the scrapbooker held the power to preserve an individual through their collection. As such, relatives and friends of the scrapbooker achieved a higher level of prominence than we might now attribute to them.

The Women in Sport team noted that there were certain sports that society deemed appropriate for women and that it was understood that women should participate in these sports in an appropriate manner. Thus while words such as “strong” and “powerful” would be used to describe male athletes, words such as “graceful” and “elegant” would be used to describe female athletes. The team also revealed the disparity of opportunity afforded to men and women interested in sport. The achievements of Barbara Ann Scott were well covered in the scrapbooks.

The Women in the Public Sphere team looked into where women achieved positions of leadership in the community and how this was reflected in the scrapbooks. Much of this happened in volunteer organizations and Women’s Clubs, such as our own WCHSO. Religious organizations, such as the Catholic Women’s League offered other options. The team highlighted the work of women in the Canadian Red Cross, contrasting their limited role during the First World War, doing fundraising and knitting in Canada, to their more evolved role during the Second World War, which saw women serving in large numbers overseas. The team also noted that the rise of women was not always well received.

The Military History team focussed on three time periods. Scrapbook 2 was primarily focussed on the period immediately following the First World War. The WCHSO scrapbookers collected stories related to demobilization and returning soldiers. Special interest in the 38th Battalion was noted. A few years of the interwar period, 1934/35 and 1937 were remarkable for the almost total lack of information related to the Canadian military, apart from the annual Armistice Day commemoration. This accurately reflected the state of military affairs in Canada at the time. Scrapbook 5 covered the period of 1940/41 and was dominated by the military build-up in Canada and a growing spirit of patriotism and support for the Crown.     

The Historical Society of Ottawa would like to thank and congratulate the students for the work they have undertaken on our behalf to make this material more accessible to researchers. One student did caution that although the .pdf versions of the scrapbooks are searchable using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software tools, these tools are not 100% reliable and may miss occurrences of the text string being searched for. 

As a gesture of our appreciation, we will be giving Sarah Templier and each of her students: Gina Aiello, Anthony "Tony" Butticci, Daniel Cantin, Asia Csabi, Kristine Feria, Chenxuan Fu, Émilie Hollingsworth, Malcolm La Prairie, Caleb Ka Yu Lee, Noah Louden, Brennan Macey, Anthony Martimbeault, Emma Penwell, Isabelle Schneider and Ethan Stitt, a one year complimentary membership to the Historical Society of Ottawa. We hope to see you all at our events for many years to come.

In 2023 we asked ourselves the question – are there ways the Historical Society of Ottawa can be of assistance to teachers who would like to expand their students knowledge of the Ottawa area’s local history?

To that end, we have assembled an “Educational Resource List” and have made it available on our website. This Educational Resource List consists of more than 30 helpful links to specific stories from Ottawa’s past as well as links to additional resources. The links include short essays, pamphlets and video presentations from our own website, as well as links to third party resources that we strongly recommend. Various resources are suitable for group learning activities and/or independent study assignments.

We are happy to meet with teachers to further explore how we can be of assistance. We can also arrange for speakers to come to your classroom or to arrange walking tours. All free-of-charge. We are a non-profit, all-volunteer organization. It has been the Society's goal (since 1898!) to increase awareness of the Ottawa area’s fascinating history. (See Educational Resource List for full details and contact information.)

We welcome any suggestions you may have for the Educational Resource List. We hope to make it a resource that we can continually build upon.

Please let us know if you would like to part of the group of teachers who receive regular updates from us regarding our resources — and please feel free to share with other educators!

The Historical Society of Ottawa is excited to announce we’re launching a blog! Are you a historian, heritage professional, or member of the public who is actively engaged in historical research related to the Ottawa area, who is interested in sharing your research? While you may be familiar with our other publications, including our pamphlets and Ottawa Stories, this platform provides a space for those interested in showcasing their work in a shorter blog format.

As a start, we will publish one blog post a month which will be posted on our website and promoted on our social media platforms.

Subscribe to our blog page and follow us on Facebook and Instagram to receive further details on contribution requirements.

WCSHO Scrapbooks

Check out the Ottawa University project that digitized and analyzed selected scrapbooks from the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Scrapbooking Ottawa History (temporarily unavailable).

Annual Reports

Several years of annual reports from the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa (WCHSO), the precursor to the Historical Society of Ottawa, are available via the Internet Archive:

Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Annual Report 1910-11

Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Annual Report 1913-14

Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Annual Report 1914-15

Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Annual Report 1915-16

Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Annual Report 1916-17

Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Annual Report 1917-18

Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Annual Report 1918-19

Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Annual Report 1919-20

Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Annual Report 1920-21

Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Annual Report 1921-22

Thesis

In 2016, Connie Gunn wrote an incisive thesis regarding the WCHSO’s early decades. In her paper, Gunn credited the diligence of our early members in creating a personal, nuanced and meaningful depiction of our area’s history.

Gunn also noted how the fact that our early members were drawn from the elite, often with ancestral ties to the area, inevitably shaped their interpretation of history.
Empire and colonial society were frequently revered and romanticized. Clearly, certain issues (such as the residential school system, with which some of their husbands were closely connected) might have been worthy of greater attention.

As the first few decades passed, Gunn noted the eventual diversification of the WCHSO’s membership, and also a diversification of the Society’s storytelling, including more emphasis on some of the women of history.

See this link to view the full text of Connie Gunn’s detailed study of the contributions as well as shortfalls of our well intentioned founders and early members:

The Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Constructing Public Memory and Preserving History in a Changing City, 1898-1932

Transactions of the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa

Transactions of the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa - by Emma Kent

Between 1901 and 1928, ten volumes of articles or transcripts of talks presented at Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa meetings were published under the series of 'Transactions’.  According to the AGM reports the first 8 volumes appear to have titles and themes with this practice being dropped for the last few volumes. A reprint of Volume One was issued after Volumes Six and Seven. Under the presidency of Margaret Wilson, an eleventh volume was published in 1954. 

Currently, we only have a few volumes that cannot scan the entries without destroying our copies. Still, for those interested in using the articles for research, here is a list of what each volume contains,  any notes added by the Society, and we could provide photos of the article’s text upon request.

Volume One - “Early History of Ottawa and Counties” 

Volume Two - “The Water Ways of Canada”  

Volume Three - “ Early History of Ottawa and Hull” 

Volume Four -  “Early History of Townships, etc.”

Volume Five - “The Battlegrounds of Canada” - 1912 - Printed in Ottawa by The Esdale Press, Limited. C or Kent and Sparks Sts. Engravers, Printers ETC. 

Page 5 - The Plains of Abraham by Mrs. Wilfred Campbell. 

Paper read before the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, February 9th, 1912. 

Page 19 - The Battlegrounds of Niagara Peninsula by Mrs. Thomas Ahearn

Paper read before the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, November 1909. 

Page 37 - Battle of the Windmill, 1838 by Miss Amey Horsey 

Paper read before the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa,

Page 43 - Battles of St. Denis and St. Charles by Miss Kathleen O’Gara 

Paper read before the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, January 14th, 1910. 

Page 51 - Siege of the Long Sault by Miss Magdalen Casey 

Paper read before the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, February 10th, 1911. 

Page 61 - Battlegrounds of the North-West Rebellions by A.E. Attwood 

Paper read before the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, December 9th, 1910 

Page 71- The Heroine of Vercheres by Mrs. Walter Armstrong 

Paper read before the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, January 13th, 1911. 

Page 80 - Madame de la Tour by Miss M. A. Northwood 

Paper read before the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, January 12th, 1912. 

Page 89 - Louisburg - its two Sieges by Miss Eva G. Read. 

Paper read before the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, March 8th, 1913. 

Page 96 - The Hero of Chateauguay by Madame S. Lelievre 

Paper read before the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, March 12, 1909. 

Volume Six - “Treaties Relating to Canada, 1632 - 1872” - Printed in 1915

Page 5 - Forward on the General Subject of Treaties. 

Being the Introduction to Mrs, Bayly’s Paper on “The Treaty of Paris,” the first of the series as arranged to be given before the Society. 

Page 11 - St. Germain-en-Laye. 

A Treaty between Lewis XIII King of France and Charles I King of Great Britain the Restitution of New France, Acadis and Canada, and the Ships and   Merchandises taken on Both Sides, March 29, 1632. 

Page 25 - The Treaty of Breda (1667) - Rysmick (1697) 

(Page 25) Treaty of Ryswick, 1687. 

(Page 31) Treaty of Ryswick, 1697. 

(Page 37) Treaty of Breda, 1667. 

(Page 38) Treaty of Ryswick, 1697. 

Page 40 - Treaty of Utrecht by Cordelie E. Rheaume given on March 12th, 1915. 

Page 46 - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748. By Alice B. Lelievre .

Page 52 - The Treaty of Paris, 1763 by E.D. Bayly. 

Page 62 - Treaty of Versailles, 1783 by Jenny Russell Simpsom 

Page 73 - Treaty of Ghent by Muriel G. Shortt. Given on Dec 12th, 1913. 

Page 84 - The Ashburton Treaty by Hazel Biggar given in January, 1914. 

Page 92 - Treaty of Washington, 1871 by Edith M. McLean given on March 14, 1913.

Page 104 - Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 by Agnes M. Davis given on February 13th, 1914. 

Page 113- Some Confederation Reminiscences of the Hon. Senator Costigan by his daughter Teresa Contigan Armstrong Given on March 10th, 1914. 

Reprint of Volume One

Volume Seven - “Historical Collection” 

Page 5 - Reminiscences of Bytown by Mrs. Jenny Russell Simpson 

Read before the WCHSO on Feb 11th, 1916. 

Page 12 - Toronto University by Helen McLean of 292 Daly Ave, Ottawa

Read before the WCHSO on March 10th, 1916. 

Page 16 - The Settlement of the Country of Lennox and Addington by Mrs. Annie Rothwell Christie

Page 26 - My Native County - Glengarry by Mary Gerenish H. Foran -  December 10th, 1915

Page 38 - The Cairn by Mary Masson 

Page 42 - Nova Scotia by Alberta T. Somerville 

Page 59 - The History of Canada in Sixty Lines by T. Chisholm, M.D., ex-MP and read before the WCHSO by Mrs. Simpson, Nov 10, 1917. 

Volume Eight - “Personal Recollections of Bytown and Early Ottawa”  

Page 5 - Philemon Wright and the Settlement of Hull by Hon. Justice Latchford. 

Read February, 1921 before the WCHSO. 

Page 20 - Notes on some of the Prominent Citizens of the Early Days of Bytown by Leopoldine Beauchamp Pigeon.

Page 23- Bytown to Ottawa, 1827- 1877 by William Pittman Lett. 

Short Panoramic View of Ottawa History, Written in its Jubilee Year by William Pittman Lett, City Clerk. 

Page 34 - Reminiscences - How Peace was Preserved in the Days Gone by. 

This paper, read some years ago before the Perth Historical Society, has been presented to the WCHSO by Miss Clara B. Armstrong, Perth, Ont.

Page 38 - Bytown in 1837. By H. P. Hill

Page 52 - Bytown Election of 1841 by H.P. Hill 

Page 63 - Memories of Bytown by W.H. Cluff - January 1920. 

Our First Telegraph Line (page 68) 

Road from Upper Town to Lower Town (page 69) 

Freight and Passengers in the Old Days (page 72) 

The Military Graveyard (page 74)

The High Cost of Living in the 1840’s and 50’s (page 74) 

When the Spark Estate was put on the Market (page 75) 

Page 77 - History of The Ottawa Fire Department - Showing its development with the Growth of the city, from its Earliest Volunteer Organization up to the Present Time by John W. Graham, Chief Fire Department. 

Page 89 - A Glimpse of the Capital in 1849 by Marion Jamieson 

Page 94 - On Early Patents for Inventions Granted to the Residents of Ottawa by William J. Lynch, I.S.O., Chief of the Canadian Patent Office. 

Volume Nine - 1925 

Page 5 - Bytown, 1834 to Ottawa, 1854 by George R. Blyth. 

A copy of the reminiscences of Mr. Geo R. Blyth of the City of Ottawa. They were given to Mrs. Ells of the committee appointed to collect the memories of old residents of the City. - M. A. Northwood, Secretary of the Committee. 

Page 16 - Burning of the Parliament Buildings at Montreal in 1849 by J.Jones Bell 

Page 21 - The Chelseas on the Gatineau by Mary MacKay Scott 

Page 26 - Early Settlements of the Meach Lake by Ethel Penman Hope

Page 34 - The First Missionaries of Hull by Louise Belisie 

Page 40 - Hugh Macdonell by Kate Casgrain 

A United Empire Loyalist of the Revolutionary War, 1775-83 (Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Kings’ Royal Regiment of New York). M.P. for Glengarry in the first Parliament of Upper Canada, Volunteers Regiment of Foot, 1796-1802. First Adjutant-General of the Militia in Canada and founder of the Militia system, 1792-9. British Consul- General at Algiers, 1811-1820. 

A great record of splendid service of a pioneer Canadian and his family.

Page 48- Castine by Lucienne C. Roy

Page 56 - The Founder of Toronto by Lucienne C. Roy 

Page 59 - The Duke of Kent and a Famous Minuet by Lucienne C. Roy 

Page 61 - The Colours of the Fenian Invasion, 1870 by Luceienne C. Roy 

Page 62 - The Indian Chapel of Tadoussac by Edith M. Maclean 

Page 67 - A Social Life in Old Quebec by Edith M. Maclean 

Page 79 - The Fur Trader’s Better Half by Lawrence J. Burpee 

Page 91 - Sir William Johnson by Mary Garenish H. Foran 

Page 98 - Some Canadian Women of 1812-14 by Ernest of Green 

An Address delivered before the Society in the Bytown Museum, December 14th, 1923. 

Page 110 - Experiences in the Yukon, 1901 by O.P.R Ogilvie 

At the conclusion of the paper, about thirty-five very attractive pictures of the Yukon were shown.

Page 116 - The Iroquois, An Historical and Ethnological Sketch by F. W. Waugh, Division of Anthropology, Geological Survey. 

Page 126 - The Naskopi Indians of Labradors and their Neighbors by F. W. Waugh, Division of Anthropology, Geological Survey.

Page 137 - The Eskimos, Their History and Future by D. Jenness 

Paper read before the Women’s Historical Society, January 12, 1923.

Page 142 - Indian Legends From Vancouver Island by Edward Sapir 

Then Dr. Sapir then gave two interesting examples of the type of myths and legends prevalent among the Nootka Indians of Vancouver Island. He read his own literal translation of a myth entitled: “What Mosquitoes Are Made Of” and a legend “Always-Lifts-Up” and “Sore-Headed Whales”. These valuable examples of Indian folk-lore are in the Articles of the Museum and may be seen and read on request. 

Volume 10  

Page 5 - Ottawa. 1867-1927. Something of her history during the sixty years since Confederation by Mrs. C. H. Thorburn 

Written for and read before The Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, February 10th, 1928, by Mrs. Charles H. Thornburn. 

Page 30 - North West Rebellion. By Grig-Gen.  General C. F. Winters

January 9th, 1926. 

Page 39 - Governors of Canada by C.A. Gullock 

Page 55 - Lecture on the Choice of Ottawa as the Capital of Canada by Mr. Arthur Beaucheane, M.A., F.R.S.C, Clerk of the House of Commons. 

Page 62 - The Celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation by C.G Cowan, Honorary Secretary of the National Diamond Jubilee Committee, Ottawa, September, 1927

Page 74 -The Peace Bridge and Confederation Celebration Elsewhere in Canada by Eva G. Read

Page 84- Some Historic Buildings in Ottawa by Mary McKay Scott

Paper read before The Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, Jan. 13, 2028. 

Page 93 - Early British Canadian Heroines by Mrs. J.R. Hill

Page 94 - Mrs. Susanna Moodie. 

Page 99 - E.  Pauline Johnson, condensed from “Flint and Flatter” 

Page 102 - Barbara Heck From Barbara Heck by Dr. Withrow

Page 114 - Some Pioneer Women of French Canada by Mrs. G. J. Desbarats 

Read at the Meeting of The Womens’ Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, Friday, January 14th, 1927. 

Page 136 - The First State Trail in Lower Canada by Col. Rene de Salaberry 

Page 147- Sketch Life of Thomas D’arcy McGee by Mrs. E. J. Doyle 

Page 152- The First Jesuit Mission of Fort Ste. Marie by Mrs. E.J Ashton 

Read before the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa. 

Page 163 - Canadian Art and Artists by Mrs. O.J. Jolliffe 

Page 170- Canadian Unity ad Quebec by Dr. S. Marion 

Volume 11 - 1954 - Printed by Leclerc Printers Limited, Hull, Canada

Page 5 - The Bytown Museum 

Page 7 - Side-lights on the Ottawa-Rideau Waterway to Upper Canada by Thomas Dunbabin 

Page 17 - Sarah Olmstead by Brigadier R.M. Gorsline 

Page 20 - St. James Anglican Church, Hull, Quebec by Annie M. Findlay Fee 

Page 24 - John Burrows Honey (An Early Resident of Bytown) by Dr. H. T. Douglas

Page 27 - The Last Days of Bytown by Anne Dewar

Page 37 - The Choice and Acceptance of Ottawa as the Capital of Canada by Sheila  I. Stewart

Page 42 - Ottawa in the Seventies by Lieutenant-Colonel C. P. Meredith 

Page 46 - My Recollections of Laurier House by Lilian Scott Desbarats 

Page 51 - The History of the Blue Church by Barbara Jones 

Page 55 - A Pioneer Community in Beckwith Township, Lanark County Upper Canada 1818 Locally Known as “The Derry” by Bertram Reid MacKay

Page 63 - Terminal Note 

  Historical Reflections Relating to the War by Sir Clifford Sifton, K.C.M.G, P.C, K.C. Chairman of Commission of Conservation Canada - November 4th, 1915.

• Address delivered by Sir Clifford Sifton under the auspices of the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, November 4th, 1915

SORRY, this event is full!

The Historical Society of Ottawa, in partnership with the Ottawa Public Library and Rogers TV, is presenting a three-part lecture series, featuring renowned author, columnist, singer songwriter Phil Jenkins, which will take place at the Ottawa Public Library's Sunnyside Branch, on three consecutive Saturdays — April 15, 22 & 29, 2023 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day.

Through the years, many have enjoyed Phil Jenkins' music, his columns in the Ottawa Citizen and his award-winning books such as "An Acre of Time" and "River Song". We hope you'll join us!

Attendance is free but we strongly recommend signing up early as spaces are limited. You can choose from either of two links to pre-register, through Eventbrite or through the Ottawa Public Library's website.

(Rogers TV has been invited to video-record the three lectures to be preserved for posterity's sake.)