Category: Heritage
MARCH 25: A digital reprise of “Caretaker of Dreams”
(via Goulbourn Township Historical Society) You’re in for a treat as the Goulbourn Township Historical Society digitally reprises the Millennium Pageant “Caretaker of Dreams” on Saturday March 25, 2017 at…
Book chronicles dreams and fears of original settlers
The life of 19th century Canadian immigrants was rough, and quite often deadly. Their eventual triumph over natural and human-made adversity, and the foundation they laid for our community, is downright…
SECRETS OF GOULBOURN: Ghosts, murder, cemeteries and other unknowns
(ABOVE: A sign installed on a post at the scene of the murder of Robert McCaffrey.) This sounds interesting: “Have you heard stories about ghosts, murder, cemeteries and other unknowns…
City seeks input on four commemorative naming proposals
(via City of Ottawa) The City of Ottawa Commemorative Naming Committee is conducting public consultations on four separate naming proposals for Stittsville:
LETTER: A little house on Hazeldean
(EDITOR’S NOTE: It was a year ago this week that I joined several community members at a Planning Committee meeting at Ottawa City Hall to oppose Richcraft’s proposal to move…
Heritage house on Stittsville Main gets new life as interior design studio
(Photo:Jennifer McGahan in front of the building on Main Street that she has purchased and will renovate for her business. Photo by Barry Gray.) After over a century as a…
2016 REWIND: Looking back at the ups and downs in local heritage
(Above: Barn at the Bradley-Craig farm. Photo by Steve Garecke.) There was bad news and there was good news for heritage buildings in Stittsville in 2016. First, the bad. In…
Hazeldean farmer Eldon Craig passes away at age 91
(PHOTO: Bradley-Craig barn, March 2016. Photo by Barry Gray.) Eldon Craig farmed at the Bradley-Craig farm on Hazeldean Road with his wife Norma for 58 years. He passed away at…
SATURDAY: “Mississippi Mills Valour Award Recipients of the Great War”
With Remembrance Day having recently taken place, “Forgotten Heroes: Mississippi Mills Valour Award Recipients of the Great War” will be the topic presented by the Goulbourn Township Historical Society November…
Goulbourn Museum’s Kathryn Jamieson receives leadership award
(via Goulbourn Museum) Goulbourn Museum’s Curator Manager has won an Ontario Museum Association (OMA) award of excellence. Kathryn Jamieson received the 2016 Promising Leadership Award of Excellence at the OMA…
HODGINS HOUSE: They paved paradise, put up a Mattress Mart
“IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS IT WAS GONE,” wrote reporter Debbie Lawes in the Kanata Standard on Wednesday, June 8, 1988, a week after a wrecking crew tore down Hodgins House…
Richmond Bakery sign goes up for auction
(Richmond Bakery circa 2014. Photo via Google Streetview.) The Richmond Bakery sign has been put up for auction. The owners of Danby’s Roadhouse, who took over the building earlier this year,…
Hélène Rivest receives Goulbourn Museum’s heritage advocacy award
(Photo: Hélène Rivest, centre, with Goulbourn Museum’s Curator Manager, Kathryn Jamieson, and Chairperson Keith Hobbs. Photo via Goulbourn Museum.) Each year, the Board of Directors selects a recipient for the…
THIS OLD HOUSE: Lytle family puts Stittsville Main Street home up for sale
(ABOVE: Cathy Lytle stands in front of her family’s home at 1495 Stittsville Main Street. Photo by Devyn Barrie.) After more than a century on Stittsville Main Street, the Lytle…
LETTER: Where are the historical street names?
Re: Sugar Shack or Mitig? City offers new street name options Not one of the names suggested by the City of Ottawa for the six streets in question has any…