What’s Happening
Images of the Month
The WHM image archivist has been assembling a collection of images not available elsewhere to become a unique record of the lives and workplaces of workers. While yet to be officially launched, we are featuring here a Gallery of some of the more interesting ones, and the stories behind them. [...]
2018 Pat McGrath Scholarship Recipient
Melissa Sinfield is attending Saint Paul University in Ottawa working on her Masters in Conflict Studies. She has her Bachelor of Social Science, Honours in International Development and Globalization from the University of Ottawa. Melissa Sinfield is attending Saint Paul University in Ottawa working on her Masters in Conflict Studies. [...]
The Eddy Papermill Collection
Historians and other researchers are invited to apply to the Workers' History Museum to gain access to a unique visual documentary collection recording in detail the former E B Eddy / Domtar Pulp and Paper Mill complex in Ottawa, Canada. While Ottawa is popularly perceived as a government town, it [...]
Trivia Night!
Think you know it all? Prove it!!! Monday, October 29, 2018, 7:00 PM Colonnade Restaurant (Corner of Metcalfe & Gilmour Streets), Ottawa $10 per person /4-6 players per team Reserve your table: call Barb at 613-837-8743 or email treasurer@workershistorymuseum.ca
Doors Open Ottawa June 2 and 3, 2018
The Workers’ History Museum and the Public Service Alliance of Canada National Capital Regional office hosted Doors Open at the PSAC Headquarters building at 233 Gilmour Street in Ottawa with over 260 visitors coming in to check out the building’s architecture. The volunteers were kept busy talking about the PSAC [...]
Public Service Alliance of Canada Wall Exhibit
Check out our latest permanent wall exhibit located at 233 Gilmour Street in Ottawa. This was a collaboration with the PSAC, Chapter One Studio for the design and the Workers’ History Museum. The exhibit is made up of 100 photos showing a variety of the jobs carried out over the [...]
You Can’t Do That on Television!
Notable for its sketch comedy, and the career launching of many young Canadian artists, the theme of the popular 80's Ottawa TV show called "You Can't Do That on Television" is a featured track on our National Press and Allied Workers' Jazz Band CD. The band was brought to the [...]
Comic Book Launch: The Wong Brothers Make Their Mark
Come join the Workers' History Museum and partners as we celebrate the launch of our newest project, Capital History Comics, The Wong Brothers Make Their Mark, a comic book highlighting an Ottawa history story. Meet the illustrator and descendants of the Wong brothers, learn more about the project and purchase your own copy [...]
BOOK RELAUNCH: October 1906: Two striking trade union leaders murdered by employer thugs
Original article can be found here Buckingham, Ville occupée (‘Buckingham, Occupied city‘), first published 1983, by Pierre Louis Lapointe. A nearly-forgotten story (at least in anglophone Ottawa) of the brutal and premeditated murder of two locked out (or striking) mill workers in the Ottawa region – specifically the MacLaren family [...]
Taking history to the streets
Recently Glebe Report post a fantastic article regarding the our Capital History Kiosks. Read it here https://www.glebereport.ca/2018/03/taking-history-to-the-streets/
Trivia Night
Where: Colonnade Resturant, corner of Metcalfe & Gilmour Street When: Monday April 9th, 7:30pm Reserve your table by calling Barb or emailing treasurer@localhost:8080
Black History Month Documentary Screening in English
Screening of two documentaries illustrating racial discrimination in Canada's past, and the struggle to change for the better: Simply the Best is the story of the remarkable Cal Best. Best was born into a segregated Canada, where the local movie theatre had a "Whites Only" section. He grew up to be an [...]