Archive 1997-2016
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson’s 2016 “State of the City” speech brimmed with new developments and ideas related to Centretown, including a proposed Tourism Summit, the O’Connor Street cycling improvements, the LeBreton Flats redevelopments and planned central library.
Local author Alain Miguelez is crowdfunding online to run a second printing of his book, Transforming Ottawa. The book, first published in November with a print run of 500, is about French landscape architect Jacques Gréber’s famous plan that transformed Ottawa, and its outcomes and effects on the city.
Library and Archives Canada hosted a celebratory commemorative event on Jan. 28 to mark the 100th anniversary of the first vote for women in Canada.
Female residents of Manitoba were the first in the country to win the right to vote at the provincial level in 1916, which resulted in other provinces following suit and obtaining the vote federally in 1918.
Amanda Jetté Knox, a popular blogger and mother of a transgender child, shared insights from her life at the kick-off of the Centretown-based speakers’ series, Ask Women Anything.