What’s Happening
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 [...]
What do you mean I need my husband’s signature? – October 30, 2015, 7 p.m.
Working together empowers communities. In the second half of the 1970s Ottawa women came together to create an institution that would allow women to open bank accounts in their own names. Working together empowered individuals. This is the story of women who worked to create the Ottawa Women's Credit Union [...]
Les Allumettières – A Story by Ruth Stewart-Verger
The E. B. Eddy plant at Chaudière Falls has been at the centre of Ottawa's industrial life for well over a century. The WHM naturally has a great interest in the plant and in the people who worked there over the generations. As has been noted in our blog, we have [...]
Legal intern at the Workers’ History Museum
Jacob Saltiel will be working with the Workers' History Museum on two important issues over a six week period. Jacob is Human Rights / Social Justice Intern with Raven, Cameron, Ballantyne & Yazbeck LLP. The firm of labour lawyers has loaned Jacob to the museum to review WHM by-laws and do preparatory [...]
Trivia Night March 25
Some tickets still available Call now ???Trivia Night ??? March 25, 2015 ‑ 7:30 p.m. The Glen Scottish Pub and Restaurant 1010 Stittsville Main Street Stittsville ON Tickets: $10 Get a team of 4 to 6 players, contact Barb at 613-837-8743 or treasurer@localhost:8080 We have to let the [...]