Make a square for the Bytown Museum’s paper quilt! Decorate a small cardboard square to show off your favourite thing, the place you call home, or a cool pattern. Then join the museum’s mosaic of squares in our giant paper quilt!

You are invited to celebrate the rich cultures, histories, and traditions of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples at the Bytown Museum Pop-up market featuring local Indigenous vendors and makers Touch tables with traditional sacred medicines and Métis sashes Learn about the 3 Sisters with family-friendly crafts Dance performances by the Lyons Sisters and more!

Health care and nursing, both formal and informal, have a long and colourful past in Bytown (later Ottawa). Individuals and organizations affected and saved countless lives. Wives of canal workers nursed their injured husbands. Early doctors cared for patients, including an ailing Lieutenant-Colonel John By. Nuns risked deadly diseases to assist new immigrants. Trained nurses […]

This guided tour takes visitors through the evolution of Ottawa and the people who call it home while they explore the Commissariat, Ottawa’s oldest stone building. Historical accounts of this region—from the time of its first inhabitants, to its early days as Bytown, to present-day Ottawa—reveal the major changes it has experienced and what has […]

The event will include Christmas themed crafts and story reading.

See spaces where the household staff lived and worked! The Servants’ Life guided tour allows visitors to see spaces where the household staff lived and worked. Join us as we share with you the history of these spaces through the 55 years that the McLaughlin Family lived at Parkwood. As a National Historic Site, Parkwood […]

See spaces where the household staff lived and worked! The Servants’ Life guided tour allows visitors to see spaces where the household staff lived and worked. Join us as we share with you the history of these spaces through the 55 years that the McLaughlin Family lived at Parkwood. As a National Historic Site, Parkwood […]

See spaces where the household staff lived and worked! The Servants’ Life guided tour allows visitors to see spaces where the household staff lived and worked. Join us as we share with you the history of these spaces through the 55 years that the McLaughlin Family lived at Parkwood. As a National Historic Site, Parkwood […]

See spaces where the household staff lived and worked! The Servants’ Life guided tour allows visitors to see spaces where the household staff lived and worked. Join us as we share with you the history of these spaces through the 55 years that the McLaughlin Family lived at Parkwood. As a National Historic Site, Parkwood […]