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(This post originally appeared on Andrew King’s Ottawa Rewind blog) Over 10,000 years ago a body of water covered the City Of Ottawa called The Champlain Sea, a deep sideline of the Atlantic Ocean. It occupied a depression created by a continental glacier, and then it drained away as the giant glacier that once covered the northern hemisphere disappeared and the earth rebounded back into shape. ...

[caption id=“attachment_53145” align=“aligncenter” width=“720”] His Excellency presents the Member of the Order of Canada insignia to Laura Brandon, C.M. in Ottawa on Sept. 23. Credit: MCpl Vincent Carbonneau, Rideau Hall, OSGG[/caption] _ Ottawa, Ontario, October 6, 2016 _ ...

“For years I wanted to make my own TV show based on the late night “Nightmoves” show from the 1980s,” writes Ottawa artist and storyteller Andrew King . “Now it has happened. Airing on FibeTV1 _ OTTAWANDER _ takes viewers on a ghostly wander through empty Ottawa streets set to a soundtrack by local band ‘orienteers’. ...

_ (press release) _ Mayor Jim Watson is set to lead a trade mission to India to attract investment for Ottawa businesses and build opportunities in training, research and tourism. The 35 delegates represent technology companies, academic institutions, business and tourism associations, and Invest Ottawa, the city’s economic development agency. ...

_ “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. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.ottawastartinter.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140301_165220.jpg) Sparks Street used to be home to a wax museum back in the 1960s. Among other things, it included a diorama of D’Arcy McGee’s assassination. It only lasted a couple of years before it shut down, and some of the wax figures were shipped to Nova Scotia. ...

The Canadian Museum of History is proud to have acquired a number of objects from the Winkworth Collection of Canadiana following an auction held by Christie’s Auction House in London today.  Born in 1929 to an English father and Canadian mother, Peter Winkworth was raised in Montréal. ...

The Canadian Museum of History is now accepting applications for its RBC Aboriginal Training Program in Museum Practices. This eight-month program offers professional and technical training in museum practices to First Nations, Métis and Inuit people from across Canada. The deadline for applications is ** ...

Join us at the Canadian Museum of History on Thursday, April 2, for the 11th annual Héma-Québec blood drive. ** Donors ** ** will enjoy free parking and admission to the Museum ** .The blood clinic will take place in the Museum’s Marius Barbeau Lobby where donors can relax while they give the gift of life. ...

The Canadian Museum of History has acquired an extraordinary collection of Inuit drawings from the mid-1960s that uniquely documents an era of profound transition for the people of the Eastern Arctic.  The collection, comprising 1,842 drawings by 159 individuals living in communities in the North Baffin region , was acquired from Terrence Ryan, who worked for 30 years as the resident arts advisor in the famous Cape Dorset print studio. ...