Portrait of a Prime Minister: Jean Chrétien Jean Chrétien served as Canada’s Prime Minister for 10 years, from 1993 to 2003. That alone would have been enough to earn him... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 425
Portrait of a Prime Minister: Paul Martin Although Paul Martin was Canada’s Prime Minister for a relatively brief period, from December 2003 to February 2006, he had a... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1010
Bone Detective – A Box of Secrets On the last day of excavations in the lot behind 62 Sparks Street, while digging a hole to get a good stratigraphic profile of an... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1105
Bone Detective – The “Iron Man” of the Barrack Hill Cemetery: A Life i... There are so many stories that came out of researching those left behind in the Barrack Hill Cemetery, it was difficult to narrow... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 992
Bone Detective – The Maiden: Could She Have Been a “Mad Hatter”? This woman was found lying on her back, arms to her sides, hands on her thighs, feet to the east, and head facing south. Like... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1129
Bone Detective – “The Violated”: Not Buried Alone This is the first blog in the series Bone Detective: Mysteries of Those Found Beneath Downtown Ottawa about the findings in the... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1765
Bone Detective: Mysteries of Those Found Beneath Downtown Ottawa – Ser... The Barrack Hill Cemetery was the first settler cemetery in Ottawa, then known as Bytown. It was opened in late fall 1827 or... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 3354
Five Amazing Facts about Trivial Pursuit – The most successful Canadia... One afternoon in December 1979, Montréal journalists Chris Haney and Scott Abbott sketched out an idea for a board game. It... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2486
Accessibility and Inclusiveness: Evolving Resources for People Impacte... The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Foundation’s collection sheds light on the ongoing creativity of designers... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 3051
A Silk Robe and Ten Thousand Porcelain Dishes: Links Between Early Can... In 1634, French explorer Jean Nicollet carried “a robe of Chinese damask, adorned with flowers and multi-coloured birds” on... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1837
A Spoonful of Mystery: In search of early Canada’s most famous pewter ... At least once or twice a year, pewter utensils — with their quiet charm — appear in auction catalogues and the inventories of... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1588
Pandemic Protests and “Freedom Convoy” Context This month marks the one-year anniversary of the end of the month-long protests known as the “Freedom Convoy.” It also marks... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1579
Qajartalik 2022 – Collaborative Community-Based Archaeological Fieldwo... Much like everything else, my ability as a Museum curator to do archaeological fieldwork has been impacted by the COVID-19... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 4236
What DNA Analysis Can Tell us About Bytown Settlers By looking at it today, you would never know that part of downtown Ottawa was built on the first settlers’ cemetery of Bytown,... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2539
Archaeology Without Borders: Contact-Era Archaeology in Maine My role as Curator of Eastern Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of History is to enhance the understanding of Canadian... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 4299
“Desserts” is “Stressed” Backwards: COVID-19 and Pandemic Foodways in ... When her children were sent home in March 2020 due to the first COVID-19 lockdown, Saskatchewan mom Dawna Doell decided that... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2014
Signs of the COVID-19 Era: Collecting Pandemic History The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced significant adaptation and innovation, while exposing long-standing inequities in Canada... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 3151
Allan MacEachen, the “Celtic Sphinx” (1921–2017) Politician Allan MacEachen would have turned 100 years old in 2021. Although he had a number of nicknames over the course of... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2605
Vaccine Mandates in Historical Context As Canadians face another winter of COVID-19, vaccine mandates — the proof often required to work, shop or participate in... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 39066
Freshly Pressed: Place-Making in the Pretty Harbour! Besides a freshly pressed orange, is there anything that smells better than a fresh off the press archaeological... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 3463