More than four thousand nurses graduated from the Ottawa Civic Hospital School of Nursing during its forty-nine year existence (1924-1973). This lively history not only chronicles the growth of a justly acclaimed school, it also provides an interesting look at three...
This history chronicles the development of the Riverside Hospital, an active-treatment facility, from its opening in 1966 to 1996, when Ontario’s Health Services Restructuring Commission began debating the future of the Riverside and other hospitals in the...
The Zonta Club of Ottawa, which was founded in 1929, is a branch of Zonta International, a business and professional women’s service organization that was formally launched in Buffalo, New York in November 1919. Commissioned by the Zonta Club of Ottawa, this...
As 2011 approached, the non-profit, charitable Andrew Fleck Child Care Services commissioned a history to mark its 100th anniversary. The resulting work describes the development of the Ottawa agency from its humble beginnings as a tiny Lowertown nursery caring for...
In December 1986, 13 public-spirited Ottawans came together to establish something very new, very challenging, and within little more than a decade, astonishingly successful, a groundbreaking organization dedicated to making philanthropy, easy, effective and...
