OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

After years of planning that seemingly went nowhere, efforts to redevelop part of Natural Resources Canada‘s 10-hectare Booth Street complex should…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

In a moving ceremony outside Ottawa City Hall this morning, Elders and Chiefs of two Algonquin Anishinabe First Nations ( Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg and the Algonquins of…

PARKS CANADA AGENCY

Ottawa Boat Cruises will be offering a new, eco-friendly and unique cruising experience on the downtown Ottawa portion of the Rideau Canal National Historic Site. The…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

After a decade of inexplicable delay, the federal government is poised to announce the designation of the Ottawa River as one of 42 heritage rivers in Canada.…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Robert Allsopp, noted urban designer and key figure in the planning and design of the Long Term Vision and Plan for Ottawa's Parliamentary and Judicial Precincts, is to be…

NATIONAL TRUST FOR CANADA, By Natalie Bull

Once again, the National Trust has released its list of the Top 10 Endangered Places in Canada. On it are 10 more cherished places that have…

CBC NEWS | Ottawa

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has asked the National Capital Commission to review all federally…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

The federal government has asked the National Capital Commission to wade into the controversy over the future location of The Ottawa Hospital‘s new …

OTTAWA EAST NEWS, By Michelle Nash Baker

Residents will have a chance to…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The National Trust for Canada and Faith for the Common Good are co-hosting a one-day community workshop entitled "Regenerating Places of Faith".

Places of faith…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Leslie Maitland

Students from schools across Eastern Ontario recently took part in the 14th Annual Ottawa Regional Heritage Fair held on April 19th at the Canadian…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Jane's Walk is a weekend festival of free neighbourhood walking tours throughout Ottawa, led by locals who care passionately about where they live, work and play.…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, by Jon Willing

More than 8,500 people have offered their advice to the federal government on what the next design of the Memorial of Victims of Communism should look…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Carleton University and Historic Ottawa Development Inc. (HODI) have announced the inaugural winners of a new student award program.

The HODI Award for Built Heritage…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

CBC NEWS, By Waubgeshig Rice

A former synagogue in Lowertown — once home to Ottawa's first Jewish congregation — is one step closer to achieving…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

In celebration of the 200th Anniversay of Tay Valley Township, the Lanark County Genealogical Society (LCGS) will be hosting a Heritage Bus Tour and Luncheon on June 4, 2016…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

As we celebrate Earth Day and Canada's historic signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, it's hard not to think of the Central Experimental Farm National Historic…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Advocating for the protection of Ottawa's built heritage and cultural landscapes is an ongoing effort for…

Senior scientists and bureaucrats are calling upon Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to abide by the federal government's promise of respect for science and evidence-based decision making. Heritage…

OTTAWA MAGAZINE, By Arthur Milnes

For many, the best solution to the 24 Sussex problem is simply to tear it down. But as historian Arthur Milnes argues, we have much more to lose than just…

CBC NEWS, By Amanda Pfeffer

More consultations and more options for a hospital site. That was the message government and hospital officials heard Monday during a meeting…

Ottawa West News, By Adam Kvetion

A developer’s proposal for an “upscale coffee house” with a drive-thru is getting a firm no from the community and the local…

CBC News, By Amanda Pfeffer

As the Ottawa Hospital gets set to reveal its preferred site for a new Civic campus to the federal government, one group is anticipating the…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Phil Jenkins

In the April of 1915, when Wilfred William Campbell was 54, he moved with his wife Mary and several members of his extended family into an old stone farm…

CBC NEWS | OTTAWA, By Trevor Pritchard

An Ottawa city councillor says he's preparing to fight a proposal to build a drive-thru coffee shop on the site of a heritage-designated…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Patrick Jodoin

The National Capital Commission says it will separate the rebuilding of a heritage site on Clarence Street from upgrades to the…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Kelly Egan

Jack Kitts said he was sorry Monday night. Twice.

It’s a start, one supposes, to the Ottawa Hospital opening some kind of meaningful dialogue with the…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, Editorial Board

There has been “confusion” about how the public is to be consulted on building a new Civic campus for The Ottawa Hospital, admits CEO Dr. Jack Kitts.…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Aeden Helmer

The public was finally given the chance to offer feedback on the site of the city’s new multibillion-dollar hospital on Monday night, and the people didn’t…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne

It is time for Ottawa residents to “resolve our differences” over the location of a new Civic hospital and forge a plan for a new one, The Ottawa…

CBC News, By Andrew Foote

The first public consultation of the reopened efforts to replace the Ottawa Hospital's Civic campus is happening later today.

The Conservative government…

CBC Morning

Is the Central Experimental Farm the best site for a new hospital in Ottawa?

After the controversy over the Central Experimental Farm site, The Ottawa Hospital is now…

Heritage Ottawa and the Coalition to Protect the Central Experimental Farm remain concerned that the Farm is still the principle target for a new site for the Ottawa Hospital. We can still achieve…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne

Six years after the Conservative government pulled the plug on the Portrait Gallery of Canada, momentum is building to restart the project and make…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Dave Reevely

The Central Experimental Farm should have some formal protection that would keep politicians from handing pieces of it off to other people, environment…

CBC News, By Giacomo Panico

The Ottawa Hospital wants to take a fresh look at several potential sites to build a new hospital for its…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne

The Ottawa Hospital's first big appeal to the community to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for a new hospital began with an apology from CEO Jack…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa celebrated Heritage Day 2016 by presenting its annual Gordon Cullingham Research and Publication Fund to one of this year's three grant recipients.

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Established in 1886, the Central Experimental Farm is the third oldest continuously operated agricultural research station in the world.

In a seminar to be…

CBC News, By Amanda Pfeffer

Key stakeholders in a controversial decision in 2014 to lease land from the Central Experimental Farm (CEF) to The Ottawa Hospital were kept in the dark in…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne

More than a year after announcing a new Civic hospital would be built on 60 acres of the historic Central Experimental Farm, The Ottawa Hospital now says…

CBC News, By Amanda Pfeffer

The Ottawa Hospital will review whether the 24-hectare Experimental Farm lands are the best site for its new facility, CBC News has learned.

Eight years…

OTTAWA MAGAZINE, By Paul Gessell

Ontario MP Francis Glass was in the House of Commons…

NATIONAL OBSERVER, By Mike De Souza

The Harper government broke federal cabinet rules when it attempted to transfer a historic and culturally significant piece of land, said Ottawa’s…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The Department of Canadian Heritage has launched an online survey to gather public input into a new, significantly smaller design for a Memorial to the Victims of Communism.…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

In response to a letter signed by nearly 50 agricultural and climate change scientists and heritage advocates including Heritage Ottawa, Federal Environment…

CBC News | Ottawa

The Ottawa Hospital's chief of staff says he will leave the decision about where to build a new facility to replace the century-old Civic campus "up to the politicians."…