What’s Happening
Workers’ History Museum / Bytown Museum walking tour partnership (July 5th – 8th 2017)
Workers' History Museum Secretary Bob Allen explains how the Rideau Canal was built. WHM/Bytown Labour History walking tour, Wednesday, 5 July 2017. Workers' History Museum Secretary Bob Allen describes how American immigrant Philemon Wright took squared timber rafts down the Ottawa River to Quebec City. WHM/Bytown Labour History walking tour,[...]
Workers’ History Museum / Bytown Museum walking tour partnership
Celebrate Canada’s 150th. and hear fascinating stories about the National Capital’s labour history. Schedule In partnership with the Bytown Museum, the Workers’ History Museum will conduct four labour history walking tours per month (two English, two French) for the months of July, August, September and October, 2017. Each guided walk[...]
Capital History Kiosks
CapitalHistoryKiosks: Project Team (*) and Graduate Researchers: Left to right: Samantha Osborn*, Ross Rheaume*, Chelsea Fahey*, Barb Stewart*, Sara Hollett, Stephanie Lett, Sarah Chelchowski, Kelsea McKenna, Lisa Bullock, David Dean*, Francesca Brzezicki, Meredith Comba, Rebecca Sykes, William Teal, Jen Halsall, Adam Mahoney, Denise Steeves, Andre Mersereau* Seated: Emily Barsanti-Innes, Kelsey Bodechon,[...]
A new WHM walking tour
How did Americans, the military, and the railways influence the development of jobs in early Ottawa? Answers were provided Sunday, 7 May 2017, when the Workers' History Museum sponsored a guided labour history walk. Participants started at the Bytown Museum, went north to the Ottawa River, south along the Rideau[...]
The Canadian Association of Labour Media 2017 Cliff Scotton award for a production!
The video, The Public Service Alliance of Canada – 50 Years of Solidarity, won the Canadian Association of Labour Media's (CALM) Cliff Scotton award for a production (video or other) that reflects the history, traditions and culture of the labour movement. The awards were announced May 6, 2017 at the[...]
The PSAC 50th anniversary project
Having dinner with eleven of the people who worked on the PSAC 50th anniversary project. Middle front and to the left: John Baglow, Wasim Baobaid, Barb Stewart, André Mersereau, Blanche Roy, Penny Bertrand, Bob Hatfield, Bob Allen, Richie Allen, Cyndi Summers, and Arthur Carkner.
150 years: Help Canada celebrate!
The Bytown Museum and the Workers’ History Museum are partnering to deliver a series of guided labour history walking tours as part of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations. The museums are seeking volunteers to: Be trained to act as tour guides, to lead tours in the summer and fall of 2017 Be[...]
Workers’ History Museum Movie Night at PSAC (Ottawa)!
The Workers’ History Museum is proud to host a viewing of its historiographical film about the Public Service Alliance of Canada. The film presents the fifty-year story that began when leaders from many different, often competing associations came together to formally establish a union for federal government workers. Date: March[...]
Colonel By Day with The Workers’ History Museum
On August 1st the Workers’ History Museum made its mark on Colonel By day with two tables full of activities, information and smiling volunteers. This year marked the 21st annual Colonel By Day and this year the event celebrated the workers who laboured to build the Canal, their families and[...]
The Great Wildfire of 1870: A history told by Ruth Stewart-Verger and Murray McGregor
Until Fort McMurray in the spring of 2016, the Ontario fire of 1870 was the largest wild-fire in Canadian history. It is startling how similar the descriptions of the skies, the golden glow across the horizon at midnight, the strangling smoke, the wall of fire sweeping across the land, people[...]
Doors Open Ottawa event at the PSAC
Want to visit one of Canada's top 500 buildings? Saturday, 4 and Sunday 5 June, 2016, the Workers' History Museum (WHM) is hosting a Doors Open Ottawa event at the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) national headquarters, 233 Gilmour Street, Ottawa. Doors are open from 10:00 am to 4:00[...]
2015 Pat McGrath Scholarship Winner
We are very pleased to announce that our first recipient of the Pat McGrath Scholarship has been selected. Barbara (Barby) Cochrane from Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia is attending Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. Her submission is about the struggles faced by the miners in Nova Scotia for safer working[...]