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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[...]
Janes Walk 2015
The Workers’ History Museum will once again be sponsoring a labour history walk as part of Jane’s Walk, 2015. Participants will meet at 10:00amon Saturday, 2ndMay, 2015 at the Oscar Peterson statue, outside the National Arts Centre. WHM Walk leader Bob Hatfield will take participants along the Rideau Canal and[...]
A Day in the Life of a WHM Volunteer at the E. B. Eddy Mill, Part 4
After many hours of photography, videography and documentation, the end of the day for the WHM volunteers at the former E. B. Eddy mill is something of a ritual. The equipment is gathered, caravanned back to the storage office, and everyone seats themselves on chairs around a conference table that[...]
A Day in the Life of a WHM Volunteer at the E. B. Eddy Mill, Part 3
In past entries, I've told you what a typical day at the E. B. Eddy mill is like, and what equipment we use. In this entry, I'll briefly describe how we document the process so that the visual and other data collected will permit accurate digital reproduction of the entire[...]
A Day in the Life of a WHM Volunteer at the E. B. Eddy Mill, Part 2
Earlier I described how a team of volunteers marshalled by WHM is creating a complete visual historical snapshot of the former E. B. Eddy plant at the Chaudière Falls on the Ottawa River. But who are these people gamely spending sometimes exhausting days in often dark, dusty and damp spaces?[...]
A Day in the Life of a WHM Volunteer at the E. B. Eddy Mill, Part 1
For over 150 years, the E. B. Eddy paper mill was the site of ever-expanding industrial activity. It grew to a sprawling hive of buildings that bestrode the Quebec and Ontario sides of the Chaudière Falls, employed thousands, and turned trees into an astonishing variety of paper products. Then, in[...]