Your Definitive Source of Ottawa Workers’ History
Since 2011, the Workers’ History Museum has celebrated, interpreted, and preserved the history, heritage and culture of working people in the National Capital Region, the Ottawa Valley and far beyond.
WHM creates permanent, travelling and virtual exhibits, maintains an extensive photographic archive and an artefact collection, organizes storytelling evenings, walking tours, oral history seminars and other events, publishes books and graphic novels and even makes movies. Our collections are focused on workers as individuals, as well as employees, as trades, as industry and many other aspects of the life of working people.
The volunteer board collaborates with other heritage, academic and labour organizations to bring workers’ history to the public, over a wide range of platforms.
Latest Projects
The Eddy Papermill Collection
FIGHTING BACK, HOW BONNIE ROBICHAUD MADE HISTORY
WHAT IS A FAMILY? THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL BENEFITS
Latest Happenings
What It Was Like Logging in Quebec in the 1940s
Before the age of chainsaws and logging trucks, farmers from Ontario—my father and I included—would travel to a logging [...]
Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of March 25, 1911
The Workers’ History Museum held a storytelling evening on the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New [...]
Lucky Us
Lucky Us We are very pleased to have Sam Derby-Wiman doing his placement term from January to April [...]