Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) is responsible for Carleton, Lanark, Renfrew, Prescott and Russell Counties. Our mission is “To encourage, assist and bring together all those interested in the pursuit of family history.” If you want to discover more about your family origins, or how and where to locate information about your ancestors, our members will be there to help you.
26 October 2015
21 October 2015
Ottawa Branch Memorial Lecture - Saturday 24 October
The annual Ottawa Branch Memorial Lecture on Saturday 24 October at 1pm will feature Dr Bruce Elliott speaking on `Some Early Ottawa Gravestone Makers'.
Gravestones are an important source of genealogical information but they also have their own history. Initially craft products that reflected locally available materials, traditional skills, and local, regional, or cultural stylistic and symbolic traditions, gravestones increasingly became modern, standardized and mass produced industrial products through the course of the 19th century. Canada became part of a North American consumer marketplace in which materials, designs, and eventually monuments themselves originated outside the locality, produced at a few centralized quarry sites and wholesaled to local monument makers who added the inscriptions and became more retailers than craftsmen. This presentation looks at the work of some of Ottawa's early gravestone makers in the context of this transition from craft to industry.
The presentation will be held in the City of Ottawa Archives at 100 Tallwood Drive. Social time runs from 1pm to 1:30 when the session will start. All are welcome and there is no charge for admission.
Note that this presentation will NOT be webcast.
02 October 2015
Ottawa TMG Users Group
The next meeting of the Ottawa TMG Users Group is Saturday 3 October. Please visit our web site for details and information on webcasting of the meeting, http://ottawa-tmg-ug.ca/
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