Links (Updated February 20. 2025)
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| Billings
Estate National Historic Site |
| British Isles
Family History Society of Greater Ottawa |
| Canadian Gravemarker
Gallery |
| Canadian Headstone Photo Index |
| Capital Heritage Connexion |
| Cumberland
Heritage Village Museum |
| Cumberland
Township Historical Society |
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Goulbourn Museum |
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Goulbourn Township Historical Society |
| Heritage
Ottawa |
| The Historical Society of Ottawa |
| A guide to researching the history of a house (American based) |
| Manotick district
1954 Air Photo |
| On-Line Maps including Ottawa topographical maps |
| On-Line Maps including historic Ottawa topographical maps dating back to 1906 (Search "Ottawa") |
| Nepean
Museum |
| Ontario
Cemetery Finding Aid |
| Osgoode
Township Historical Society and Museum |
| Ottawa
Air Photographs from 1930 to 1945 |
| Ottawa
Air Photo of 1954 including north half of Gloucester |
| Ottawa
Air Photo of 1954 including south half of Gloucester |
| Ottawa
Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society |
| Ottawa
City Archives |
| Ottawa Commemorative Names Database for those names already in use |
| Ottawa Commemorative Names Database for those names approved but not presently being used |
| Ottawa Fire Insurance Maps |
| Ottawa
Map 1940 |
| Ottawa
Maps including historic air photographs (to view air photos, click on the camera symbol "Air Photos slider" near the upper right corner) |
The
Perth & District Historical Society |
| Pinhey's
Point Historic Site |
| Rideau
Township Historical Society |
| Rockcliffe Park Heritage Conservation District Plan |
| Société franco-ontarienne du patrimoine et de l'histoire de Orléans SFOPHO |
| Street Name Changes in Eastview (Vanier) in 1948 |
| Street Name Changes in 1950 |
| Street Name changes affecting Gloucester in 1951 |
| Street Name changes affecting Orléans in 1957 |
| Street Name Change Report from 2001 amalgamation |
| Street Name Changes in Ottawa since 2015 including rationale |
| Streets Named for entertainers |
| Street Names (histories and name changes) from news clippings |
| Vanier
Map |
| Vanier
Museopark |
Local
History |
| Bayview
Public School History |
| Belden
Atlases of Ontario Land Ownership Search (1879-1880) |
| Billings Family History |
| Blackburn Banar Archives |
| Blackburn Hamlet History |
| Britannia
Yacht Club History |
| Bytown
or Bust (Many stories about early Bytown and Ottawa area history)
also Facebook
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| Capital Chronicles (Rick Henderson) |
| Carleton
County History |
| Carlsbad
Springs History |
| Charles Lindbergh's visit to Ottawa, July 2, 1927 |
| History
of Earnscliffe |
| History
of the Glebe |
| Gloucester Firefighters Facebook Page |
| The story of the abandoned Greenboro Busway |
| Hunt Club Community History (Rhoda Bellamy) |
| Hunt Club Community History (John Sankey) |
| Kanata
History |
| Kitchissippi Museum
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| Lindenlea
History |
| Manotick
History |
| The Margins of History
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| Mid-Century Modern Ottawa (Housing and Neighbourhood Plans)
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| The Story of Nordic Circle and Rideau River Floods
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| Ontario Land Registry Records |
| Orléans
History |
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List of searchable
newspapers includes other choices from the Ottawa area (Bytown
Gazette, The Ottawa Free Press, The Ottawa Daily Citizen, Ottawa
Times, Daily Citizen) |
| Ottawa
City Directories (1863 to 1899) (Library and Archives Canada) |
| Ottawa
City Directories (various years from
1866 to 1927) (Internet Archive) |
| Ottawa
City Directories (various years from
1863 to 1927) (Ottawa City Library) |
| Ottawa
Horticultural Society History |
| Ottawa
Hunt & Golf Club History |
| Ottawa
New Edinburgh Club History (originally Ottawa Canoe Club) |
| Ottawa
Public Library History |
| Ottawa
Railway History |
| Ottawa
Rewind - Andrew King's Stories of Ottawa area history |
| Ottawa
South History |
| Ottawa
Sportsmen's Club History |
| Ottawa
Streetcar/LRT History |
| Ottawa
Telephone Directory History |
| Ottawa
Tennis and Lawn Bowling Club History |
| Ottawa
Transit History |
| Ottawa
Transit Route Map History |
| Queensway at Hurdman's Bridge Historical Overview |
| RCAF Station Rockcliffe |
| RCAF Station Uplands |
| Rideau
Canoe Club History |
| Rideau
Sports Centre Vision and History (formerly Rideau Lawn Tennis Club) |
| History
of the Rideau River and Rideau Canal |
| History
of Rockcliffe Airport |
| Rockcliffe Flying Club History |
| History
of St. Patrick's College |
| Southway Inn - Bank and Hunt Club - A Video Interview with the Zlepnig family |
| CFB Uplands |
| Urbsite
(interesting stories about Ottawa History) |
| Vanier; French-Speaking Bastion of Ontario |
| Vanier Parkway History |
| Walling Map of 1863
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| Westboro
History |
Local
Photos |
| Lost
Ottawa Historic Ottawa Photos and Comments on Facebook |
| Ottawa
hh Historic Ottawa Photos superimposed with current photos |
| Ottawa Past and Present Current and Past Ottawa Photos Overlayed |
| Vintage Ottawa Old Ottawa Photos and comments |
| Vintage Ottawa by Ross Dun (Old Ottawa Photos) |
Videos on Local History |
| Almonte train crash of 1942 - survivor interviews |
| Almonte train crash of 1942 - retold |
| Almonte train crash of 1942 - "Sudden Impact" |
| Almonte train crash of 1942 - survivor interview (Bernie Turcotte) |
| Almonte train crash of 1942 - eye witness accounts (1988) |
| The Assassination of D'Arcy McGee |
| Beacon Hill Bullet "A Bus - For Us" (1972) |
| Beechwood Avenue in the late 1980s and early 1990s (photos) |
| Billings Estate National Historic Site |
| Byward Market in 1946 |
| Bytown and Prescott Railway - (Andrew King) |
| Bytown Museum - Beyond Bytown video series |
| Canada’s Secret World War Two Weapon’s Lab |
| Carlsbad Springs History - French (1992) |
| Carlsbad Springs Spas - Mary Boyd remembers (Gloucester Historical Society) |
| CFB Rockcliffe - 408 (Photographic) Squadron |
| CFB Uplands |
| Central Canada Exhibition "Memories of the Ex: 122 Years at Lansdowne" |
| Cummings Bridge historic photos |
| Cummings Island |
| Diefenbunker History |
| The Other Diefenbunker (Andrew King) |
| Drive-in Theatres (Andrew King) |
| Eastview (Vanier) - Now and Then Photos |
| Eastview (Vanier) in 1966- Photos of the last CPR train |
| Eastview (Vanier) - 1968 in Photos |
| The Exciled Princess of Ottawa - Princess of Juliana of the Netherlands |
| Forgotten Ottawa |
| Gerry Barber "In Search of Gerry Barber" - Black History |
| Gerry Barber Jr. Radio interview, remembering his father |
| Historical Society of Ottawa video series |
| Horaceville (Andrew King) |
| How the Cold War Started in Ottawa |
| John By "John By, Hero without Honour, the Rideau Canal Story" (1994) |
| Marion Dewar "Love Affair with Politics" (1987) |
| Montreal to Ottawa train cab trip - The Canadian (tranxcntinental) October 19, 1989 |
| Mooney's Bay and Elmvale Acres - John Saunderson remembers (Gloucester Historical Society) |
| Mooretown in Ottawa "Unions Build Low Rent Housing" - 1956 |
| Movie Theatre History - 1906-1919 |
| Movie Theatre History - 1920-1939 |
| Movie Theatre History - 1940-1959 |
| Movie Theatre History - 1960-1979 |
| Movie Theatre History - 1980-1999 |
| Movie Theatre History - 2000-2020 |
| The Mystery of Meech Lake - Thomas 'Carbide' Wilson |
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Nepean Point - The Battle of Nepean Point |
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New York Central Railway - exploring the abandoned corridor between Cornwall and Ottawa |
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"The Odawa (Ottawa) People" - explore indigenous history through text, maps, and historic photos with background traditional music |
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Orléans - Villa St. Louis plane crash in 1956 |
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Ottawa in 1919 |
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Ottawa in 1920 - Tourist Film |
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Ottawa in 1927 - includes Diamond Jubilee celebrations on Parliament Hill and briefly Charles Lindbergh's arrival |
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Ottawa in winter 1930 - Planes on frozen Ottawa River |
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Ottawa in 1938 |
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Ottawa in 1940s and 1950s |
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Ottawa in 1941 |
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Ottawa, Wartime Capital (1942) |
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Ottawa in December 1942 - Ice Storm and frozen streetcars |
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Ottawa in 1946 - Railway approaching Lebreton Flats |
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Ottawa in 1949 (at Rideau and Sussex) (in colour) |
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Ottawa in 1949 "Safe Driving" (in colour) - many street scenes |
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Ottawa in 1949 "A Capital Plan" - colour - The Gréber Plan |
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Ottawa in winter 1955 - street scenes, snow clearing |
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Ottawa in 1957 "Capital City" |
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Ottawa in 1958 - "The Lost Missile" Fictious account of a Nuclear Attack on Ottawa (street scenes) |
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Ottawa in 1965 - railways |
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Ottawa to Brockville in 1965 - railways |
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Ottawa in 1966 - Ottawa West to Union Station, railways |
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Ottawa in 1966 - Union Station to Bayview via Hull, railways |
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Ottawa in 1968-1969 - home video of various parts of the city |
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Ottawa in 1972 - downtown in colour |
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Ottawa in the early 1970s - colour home video of downtown |
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Ottawa in the 1970s - colour, steam train excursions |
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Ottawa to Pembroke in 1973 - railways |
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Ottawa to Carleton Place in 1973 - steam train excursion |
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Ottawa to Buckingham in 1976 - Railways |
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Ottawa to North Bay rail cab film - The Canadian (transcontinental) 1989? |
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Ottawa to Brent in 1995 "The Right Away" - Railways |
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Ottawa River "River With a Problem" (1961) |
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Ottawa Senators - history of the original team (narration only, no video of the team) |
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Ottawa Streetcars |
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Ottawa Streetcar Memories |
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Ottawa Streetcars - colour, sound corrupted (please mute), produced in 2009 for the 50th anniversary of streetcar closure |
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Ottawa Streetcar on Rideau Street in 1951 |
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Ottawa Streetcars in the summer of 1958 - colour, Ottawa footage starts at 4:36 |
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Ottawa Streetcar Parade May 2, 1959 - colour |
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Ottawa Valley Railways in the 1980s |
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Ottawa Valley Rambles (early Ottawa History with Rick Henderson) |
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Ottawa Valley Taverns "Closing Time" |
| Overbrook - Gladys Wicker remembers growing up in the 1930s and 1940s (Gloucester Historical Society) |
| Parliament Buildings "The Buildings Already Begun" (1967) - Construction of Parliament Buildings |
| Parliament Hill Fire of 1916 - CBC Radio 1966 includes firefighter witness interviews |
| Parliament Hill Fire of 1916 |
| Parliament Hill Fire of 1916 |
| Parliament Hill Fire of 1916 - post fire film footage |
| Parliament Hill - It could have been a fortress (Andrew King) |
| Patrick Whelan - Hung for D'Arcy McGee's assassination |
| Pure Spring Ginger Ale - Where was the Spring? (Andrew King) |
| "The Railrodder" - colour (1965) starring Buster Keaton, Ottawa footage approaching Union Station starting at 7:33 |
| The making of The Railrodder - "Buster Keaton Rides Again" (1965) |
| Rideau Canal History |
| Rideau Canal History The Grisly History of the Rideau Canal |
| Rideau Yard Roundhouse (aka 'Federal') - (Andrew King) |
| Rockcliffe in the 1920s and 1930s - photos |
| Rockcliffe Ski Jump (Suicide Hill) - 1920s, film and photos |
| Royal Visit of 1939 Ottawa footage starts at 19:05 |
| Royal Visit of 1939 in Ottawa - Colour |
| Royal Visit of 1951 in colour, Ottawa footage starts at 7:23 |
| Royal Visit of 1954 in Ottawa - includes the Queen Mother ribbon cutting of the Bytown Bridges at Green Island |
| Royal Visit of 1957 in Ottawa |
| Royal Visit of 1957 at Uplands Airport |
| Royal Visit of 1959 in colour |
| Royal Visit of 1964 in Ottawa - Colour |
| Royal Visit of 1964 in Ottawa |
| Royal Visit of 1967 in Ottawa - Colour |
| Royal Visit of 1982 in Ottawa Signing of the Constitution Act on April 17, 1982 |
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The History You Were Never Told (Rick Henderson) |
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The Man in the Peace Tower (1951) - The Dominion Carillonneur |
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We are All Treaty People - Anishinaabe Indigenous history |
| Winston Churchill in Ottawa (1941)
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| Wright's Town 1830
(Rick Henderson) |
Genealogy
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| Family
Search Millions of indexed records including Canadian
Census records back to 1851, Ontario birth, marriage and death
records. This is a free site. |
| Genealogy Resourses (British but you may find this very helpful) |
| New Canadian Census Index from 1825 until 1931 Library and Archives Canada webpage |
| 1899-1902
Boer War Canadian Soldier Index You
may service records |
| 1914-1918
First World War Canadian Soldier Service Records |
| 1939-1947
Second World War War Dead Service Records |
| World War I Circumstances of Death Registers (for soldiers who died during the war) |
| World War I Death Card Index (for soldiers who died after the war up to the early 1960s) |
| Canadian
Military Memorials Database |
| Canadian
War Grave Index |
| Northwest
Mounted Police Index 1873-1904 You may
view Personnel records |
| Quebec
City Passenger List Index 1865-1900 |
| Other
Canadian Indexes held by the National Archives of Canada |
Other
History |
| Dominion
of Canada Rifle Association History |
| History
of Ontario King's Highways |
