Books
Empowering Women 1929–2019
At a meeting on September 27, 1961, Isabel Winkler moved that the club accept the service committee’s report and adopt as its project a residence providing subsidized boarding care for older women of limited means.
Capital Lives: Profiles of 32 Leading Ottawa Personalities
Ottawans owe Valerie Knowles a debt of gratitude for searching and recording on paper for our enlightenment, the lives of 32 well-known citizens from the past. What riches she has uncovered about these remarkable men and women, and what they did to build the...
Leaving With A Red Rose: A History of the Ottawa Hospital School of Nursing
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...
Making Waves: A History of the Riverside Hospital of Ottawa
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 Ottawa...
Through the Chateau Door: A History of the Zonta Club of Ottawa
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 history...
Andrew Fleck Child Care Services: A Local Success Story – Celebrating 100 Years
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...
People. Partnerships. Community: The First 15 Years of the Community Foundation of Ottawa
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...
First Person: A Biography of Cairine Wilson, Canada’s First Woman Senator
Cairine Wilson, Canada's first woman senator, was raised in one of Montreal's most affluent and influential families in an atmosphere of strict Presbyterianism, tempered by rugged Scots liberalism. She early displayed an interest in politics and, as a daughter of a...
Forging Our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900-1977
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Canadian Citizenship Act (1947), Citizenship and Immigration Canada, in conjunction with private-sector parties, commissioned this book. A survey history, it traces the evolution of Canadian citizenship and the role...
Strangers At Our Gates
Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians' perception of themselves as a country and as a society. This crisply written history describes the different kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada and the immigration policies that have helped...
From Telegrapher to Titan: The Life of William C. Van Horne
Winner of The Canadian Railroad Historical Association Book Award for 2005 Winner of the City of Ottawa Book Award 2005 for non-fiction Winner of The University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography for 2004 William C. Van Horne was one of North America's...
William C. Van Horne: Railway Titan
William C. Van Horne was one of North America's most accomplished men. Born in Illinois in 1843, Van Horne started working in the railway business at a young age. In 1881 he was lured north to Canada to become general manager of the fledgling Canadian Pacific...
Capital Lives: Profiles of 32 Leading Ottawa Personalities, Vol. II
This follow-up to Capital Lives contains thirty-two new profiles of well-known Canadians from Ottawa's past, all of which have appeared in the author's Forever Young column since the publication of the first volume in 2005. Capital Lives: Profiles of 32 Leading Ottawa...