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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Performing History, Performing Heritage: Photos of the E.B. Eddy Complex

In July 2014 a group of volunteer photographers from the Workers’ History Museum (WHM) began creating a visual archive to capture and preserve the histories and memories of spaces where thousands once worked at the E.B. Eddy pulp and paper plant. When the project finished they had taken 73,000 images and 36 hours of... More

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Exhibition on view: The Origins and Significance of Residential Gothic in Ottawa

Exhibition on view in Department of History, 4th floor, Paterson Hall, October 2014-April 2015 In the late 1850s the prospect of a design competition for Ottawa’s Parliament Buildings drew English architects to the new city. Like Parliament and Ottawa’s Gothic churches, which this exhibit also explores, their Gothic residential commissions... More

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

“Whose Astrolabe? Origin and Cultural Ownership of a Canadian Icon” on display.

The exhibit “Whose Astrolabe? Origin and Cultural Ownership of a Canadian Icon” is on view in the department through May 30, 2014.  This exhibit from the Pinhey’s Point Foundation features a hitherto unseen manuscript account of the discovery of the ‘Champlain’ astrolabe, and explores its contested use as a cultural... More

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