Andrew Fleck Child Care Services:
A Local Success Story - Celebrating 100 Years
A Local Success Story - Celebrating 100 Years
The Nursery occupied two rooms, where rows of clothes baskets served as cribs for the infants. An employment bureau that furnished domestic day work for the mothers (cleaning offices, doing sewing or other domestic tasks in private homes) supplemented the Nursery's child-care services. To be eligible for care... Read more.
Capital Lives Vol. II:
Profiles of 32 Leading Ottawa Personalities
Profiles of 32 Leading Ottawa Personalities
GEORGE MERCER DAWSON: GEOLOGIST, PALAEONTOLOGIST, AUTHOR AND ANTHROPOLOGIST
"Petty problems are the pebbles of my days, a mound of them piled around my feet. I look into the eyes of an anxious junior surveyor and maintain courtesy, even as I see with my mental eye the wild black glare of a stampeding buffalo as I raise my rifle. Or, attending a departmental meeting, I feel I am standing once more in a swarm of locusts thick enough to choke an ox." Read more.
"Petty problems are the pebbles of my days, a mound of them piled around my feet. I look into the eyes of an anxious junior surveyor and maintain courtesy, even as I see with my mental eye the wild black glare of a stampeding buffalo as I raise my rifle. Or, attending a departmental meeting, I feel I am standing once more in a swarm of locusts thick enough to choke an ox." Read more.
William C. Van Horne:
Railway Titan
Railway Titan
Cuba Beckons
Van Horne's trip to the West coast in the spring of 1899, just before he retired from the railway presidency, reinforced his view that he did not want to devote the remaining years of his life to his many hobbies. So long as he had major responsibilities, first as general manager and then as vice-president and president of the CPR. he found that painting and building up magnificent collections of art, porcelain, and model ships enthralled and delighted him. Read more.
Van Horne's trip to the West coast in the spring of 1899, just before he retired from the railway presidency, reinforced his view that he did not want to devote the remaining years of his life to his many hobbies. So long as he had major responsibilities, first as general manager and then as vice-president and president of the CPR. he found that painting and building up magnificent collections of art, porcelain, and model ships enthralled and delighted him. Read more.
Leaving With A Red Rose:
A History of the Ottawa Hospital School of Nursing
A History of the Ottawa Hospital School of Nursing
Chapter Five: Edith Young's Organizing Genius
Another notable event in 1951 was the granting of two weeks' sick leave to student nurses. Hitherto, nurses who had been unable to complete their ward assignments because of illness were required to make up all the time they lost before their finishing date, three years from the day they entered training. The School faculty had discussed the desirability of sick leave in the late 1940s but it was the fall of 1951... Read more.
Another notable event in 1951 was the granting of two weeks' sick leave to student nurses. Hitherto, nurses who had been unable to complete their ward assignments because of illness were required to make up all the time they lost before their finishing date, three years from the day they entered training. The School faculty had discussed the desirability of sick leave in the late 1940s but it was the fall of 1951... Read more.
Forging Our Legacy:
Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900-1977
Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900-1977
Chapter Two: The Arrival of the Europeans
British Immigration: Although there were relatively few good agriculturalists left to court in the "mother country," the Canadian government continued to promote immigration from the United Kingdom - often called Great Britain or simply Britain - during the Sifton years, principally because English Canadians took it for granted that their federal government would do everything possible to... Read more.
British Immigration: Although there were relatively few good agriculturalists left to court in the "mother country," the Canadian government continued to promote immigration from the United Kingdom - often called Great Britain or simply Britain - during the Sifton years, principally because English Canadians took it for granted that their federal government would do everything possible to... Read more.
Through the Chateau Door:
A History of the Zonta Club of Ottawa
A History of the Zonta Club of Ottawa
Chapter One: How It All Began
The Zonta Club of Ottawa traces its formal launching to the spring of 1929, a time when optimism reigned supreme in Canada. In those buoyant, carefree days before the onset of the Great Depression, Ottawa had a population of over 165,000 and a skyline dominated by the impressive peace tower. Striking an exuberant note so typical of the time... Read more.
The Zonta Club of Ottawa traces its formal launching to the spring of 1929, a time when optimism reigned supreme in Canada. In those buoyant, carefree days before the onset of the Great Depression, Ottawa had a population of over 165,000 and a skyline dominated by the impressive peace tower. Striking an exuberant note so typical of the time... Read more.
Making Waves:
A History of the Riverside Hospital of Ottawa
A History of the Riverside Hospital of Ottawa
Chapter One: The Birth of a Hospital
The Grand Opening
The 28 October 1966 was mild and sunny, an auspicious day for the official opening of the Riverside Hospital of Ottawa (RHO). For this landmark occasion, 300 invited guests assembled at the 300-bed active-treatment facility to watch a two-part outdoor ceremony. Ottawa mayor Don Reid began the proceedings by laying the... Read more.
The Grand Opening
The 28 October 1966 was mild and sunny, an auspicious day for the official opening of the Riverside Hospital of Ottawa (RHO). For this landmark occasion, 300 invited guests assembled at the 300-bed active-treatment facility to watch a two-part outdoor ceremony. Ottawa mayor Don Reid began the proceedings by laying the... Read more.
Capital Lives:
Profiles of 32 Leading Ottawa Personalities
Profiles of 32 Leading Ottawa Personalities
HAMNETT KIRKES PINHEY: BUSINESSMAN, BLOCKADE RUNNER, AUTHOR AND POLITICIAN
He had wealth, culture and a good education. Yet, despite all these assets Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey decided, in 1819, to exchange his comfortable home in cosmopolitan Georgian London for one in the wilderness of March Township, now part of the City of Ottawa. Why he opted for this exchange is on of those paradoxes of ... Read more.
He had wealth, culture and a good education. Yet, despite all these assets Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey decided, in 1819, to exchange his comfortable home in cosmopolitan Georgian London for one in the wilderness of March Township, now part of the City of Ottawa. Why he opted for this exchange is on of those paradoxes of ... Read more.
People. Partnerships. Community.
The First 15 Years of the Community Foundation of Ottawa
The First 15 Years of the Community Foundation of Ottawa
The Early Years: Launching a Dream
In 1986, Ottawa's population numbered 305,000 people, while that of the National Capital Region boasted some 780,000 people. As the seat of the national government and home to a large proportion of Canada's federal civil servants, Ottawa had long been considered a fat-cat city. Nevertheless, even in the nation's capital that year one in seven children lived in poverty. Read more.
In 1986, Ottawa's population numbered 305,000 people, while that of the National Capital Region boasted some 780,000 people. As the seat of the national government and home to a large proportion of Canada's federal civil servants, Ottawa had long been considered a fat-cat city. Nevertheless, even in the nation's capital that year one in seven children lived in poverty. Read more.
Strangers At Our Gates:
Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-2006
Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-2006
First Person: A Biography of Cairine Wilson
Canada's First Woman Senator
Canada's First Woman Senator
From Telegrapher to Titan:
The Life of William C. Van Horne
The Life of William C. Van Horne
Chapter Six: Forging a New Immigration Policy
Frank Oliver
Frank Oliver's appointment as minister of the interior and superintendent of Indian affairs on 8 April 1905 presaged significant changes in Canadian immigration policy. For although Oliver and Clifford Sifton were both Liberals and newspaper publishers skilled at using the press to publicize their views... Read more.
Frank Oliver
Frank Oliver's appointment as minister of the interior and superintendent of Indian affairs on 8 April 1905 presaged significant changes in Canadian immigration policy. For although Oliver and Clifford Sifton were both Liberals and newspaper publishers skilled at using the press to publicize their views... Read more.
Chapter Two: The Mackays
Cairine Wilson was born into a family of wealth. Perhaps even more important, she was born into a Scots-Canadian family that figured prominently in Montreal's English-Scots establishment, an insular society that flourished in Montreal's famous Square Mile, those several blocks in central Montreal where the rich built their mansions in the last half of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth... Read more.
Cairine Wilson was born into a family of wealth. Perhaps even more important, she was born into a Scots-Canadian family that figured prominently in Montreal's English-Scots establishment, an insular society that flourished in Montreal's famous Square Mile, those several blocks in central Montreal where the rich built their mansions in the last half of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth... Read more.
Chapter Fifteen: Chasing the Money
"Mackenzie thinks there are 'millions in it' if we can get it into reasonably secure shape. It has been a long hunt and we musn't miss it," wrote a jubilant Van Horne to his friend General Alger in 1898. Van Horne was writing about a scheme to electrify Havana's tramway system, but the railway magnate could just as easily have been referring to one of numerous other overseas and... Read more.
"Mackenzie thinks there are 'millions in it' if we can get it into reasonably secure shape. It has been a long hunt and we musn't miss it," wrote a jubilant Van Horne to his friend General Alger in 1898. Van Horne was writing about a scheme to electrify Havana's tramway system, but the railway magnate could just as easily have been referring to one of numerous other overseas and... Read more.
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