Doors Open, Saturday 2 Jun

Ottawa will be celebrating Doors Open and the new City Archives will be open to the public on Saturday 2 June. Last year, the building was not ready in time and so the event did not include the City Archives for the first time in many years. This is an excellent time for Ottawans to check out the facilities that are not normally open to the public.

Unfortunately, Doors Open is the same weekend as OGS Conference 2012 in Kingston and our active volunteers will be busy with that event. We need a few members to  stand in for us at the City Archives and explain our hobby to visitors. This is an opportunity to introduce new researchers to our hobby and our Society. It's not as easy as a click of the mouse.

The City Archives will be open only on Saturday from 10am to 4pm. Staff will be on hand but volunteers are needed to assist and also to talk about genealogy and our group. Branch and OGS brochures will be available for those interested.


If you would be willing to volunteer for a three hour shift, please contact me at pastchair@ogsottawa.on.ca.


Thanks.

Ottawa Branch Meetings

Starting in September, Ottawa Branch will hold its regular monthly meetings in the new City of Ottawa Central Archives at 100 Tallwood Drive. The meeting schedule can be found at http://ogsottawa.on.ca/?cat=6. September will feature Phil Donnelly speaking about his book and a program titled Heritage Tier worker which encourages and helps people write their stories. Phil was scheduled earlier this year but we were locked out of LAC at the last minute and had to cancel his presentation.


The October meeting is our annual Ryan Taylor Memorial Lecture. This presentation will be back at Library & Archives Canada on Saturday October 15th at 10am. Our speaker will be Leslie Huber, speaking about her latest book `The Journey Takers'.



Tallwood Drive is just south of the Peter D. Clark Long-Term Care Home, just west of Woodroffe Avenue and not far from the Nepean Centrepointe Library. There is free parking to the south of the building, accessed from Tallwood Drive. Transitway routes 94 Woodroffe / Millennium, and 95 Barrhaven / Orleans stop at the building. Local bus routes 156, 172, 174, and 178 are also available. Juice and cookies will be served at 7:00pm with the formal meeting beginning at 7:30pm.