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Great post from our friend Andrew King about Parliament Hill: _ “Today marks the 100th Anniversary of Canada’s original Parliament Buildings being destroyed in a fire that swept through the structure on February 3 1916. All that remains today of the original Parliament structure is the Library of Parliament, a unique round building at the rear of the current Centre Block. ...

During 2015, a Coalition to Protect the Central Experimental Farm National Historic Site was established, with Heritage Ottawa, the National Trust, and several others as supporters. Here’s a note from Leslie Maitland, _ Past President of Heritage Ottawa _ _ “In early January of this year, I met with Catherine McKenna, Minister for Environment and Climate Change (and Parks Canada, including the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada). ...

_ (via Canadian War Museum) _ The Canadian War Museum is pleased to welcome Raytheon as a sponsor of the Museum’s World at War – International Speaker Series for 2015–2016. World at War – International Speaker Series is part of the Museum’s First World War Centenary programming. ...

_ “Upper floor public assembly halls were once a feature of social and political life on Bank Street. At their peak, around 1900, there were at least half a dozen public halls on top of commercial storefronts. These halls were rented out for entertainments, social functions, public lectures, and political rallies. ...

_ This is the second in a two part series that looks at the mystery of the Vikings lost settlements in Canada. This post originally appeared on Andrew King’s Ottawa Rewind . Part 1 is here . _ ** _ PART 2: They’re Here _ ** The idea of Norsemen exploring towards the interior of Canada is probably met with the same scepticism as the idea of them once crossing the Atlantic Ocean. ...

_ This is a two part series that looks at the mystery of the Vikings lost settlements in Canada. This post originally appeared on Andrew King’s Ottawa Rewind . _ ** _ PART 1: Vikings Cometh _ ** This week the Canadian Museum of History opened a special exhibit called ** “Vikings” ** described in the promotional material as “engaging interactive displays and 500 outstanding artifacts from The Swedish History Museum”. ...

_ (Press release via Carleton University) _ Carleton University Journalism Prof. Randy Boswell and Canadian Museum of History Curator, Jean-Luc Pilon, have released groundbreaking research that sheds important new light on the national capital’s archaeological history. Two co-authored studies in the latest issue of the _ Canadian Journal of Archaeology _ (CJA) cite new evidence of an extensive Indigenous burial ground from as early as 4,900 years ago at “Hull Landing,” the present site of the Canadian Museum of History, directly across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill. ...

_ This article was originally published at Ottawa Rewind . _ [caption id=“attachment_1240” align=“alignnone” width=“620”] [ ](https://ottawow.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/media-ashx.jpg) Lying quietly on the shores of the Ottawa River near Quyon, QC the remains of the Ottawa Valley’s oldest home and a Hudson’s Bay Trading Post lie forgotten. ...

[caption id=“attachment_17276” align=“alignright” width=“211”] Paul Kitchen - Win, Tie, or Wrangle[/caption] _ I was sad to hear that Paul Kitchen passed away last month. Paul was a hockey historian who wrote the excellent “Win, Tie or Wrangle”, an account of the early years of the Ottawa Senators. ...

[caption id=“attachment_17193” align=“aligncenter” width=“580”] Colin Wylie[/caption] Built in 1892, the 123-year-old former Methodist Church is home to the Valley’s latest music recording studio appropriately named ** _ Old Church Recording _ ** . It’s located in the beautiful Whitewater region of the Ottawa Valley on the Barr Line between Cobden and Douglas, ON. ...