Heritage Day 2024

HERITAGE DAY 2024!

Celebrate this year's theme "Diversity of heritage – recognizing the past and celebrating the future"

Join us at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, February 20 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 PHILLIPS MEMORIAL LECTURE on February 21 at 6:30 pm at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

24 Sussex Drive: From Residence to Reticence, presented in partnership with The School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University and Historic Ottawa Development Inc. Join us for an evening of discussion about Canada's favourite public housing issue, with four distinguished panelists. The event is FREE but Preregistration is required.

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.