Bytown Museum
Digitization has given this photo of Canada Day in 1867 a new life online.While museums everywhere compete with readily available online sources for audiences interested in history, a number of Ottawa museums have been catching up by making their collections available online.
Author: Centretown Staff
Chinatown art festival better late than never
It might be late, but the show will go on.
Tribute to missing and murdered opens at Carleton
Pairs of baby vamps will be featured at Walking With Our Sisters, a traveling art exhibit commemorating the lives of missing and murdered Aboriginal women, which can be seen at Carleton University Art Gallery between Sept. 25 and Oct. 16. Little Italy’s Gallery 101 is commemorating the hundreds of missing and murdered indigenous women across Canada and the U.S. with a travelling art memorial that opens Friday at Carleton University. Walking With Our Sisters will be on display in the St. Patrick’s building at the Carleton University Art Gallery.
LeBreton Flats park to celebrate Algonquin culture
National Capital Commission
An artist's rendering of the park and Algonquin-inspired art installation slated for LeBreton Flats.
A portion of LeBreton Flats will undergo a vivid transformation as the National Capital Commission begins construction on temporary renovations this fall, drawing on Algonquin culture and including a piece of Ottawa’s history.