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Tours in other cities. About the tour guide. Historical walking tours as adult education. Starting this week, I will be offering my historical walking tours as part of a six week ‘Learning in Retirement’ course at Carleton University with the title: Walking Through Ottawa’s History: ‘Forgotten Stories’ from a Radical Tour Guide . Teaching retirees is a new venture for me, and I’m greatly encouraged by the initial response to this. The 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland: Fighting Colonialism then and now.
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Tours in other cities. About the tour guide. Rideau Canal and the making of the Canadian working class. Book Rideau Canal Tour. Protest, strike and rebellion in Canada’s Capital. New tours for 2015. Peoples’ History Walking Tours is developing new tours for the enjoyment and education of visitors and local residents alike. Watch for them starting in the spring of 2015. An Unauthorized History of Parliament Hill: from Indigenous Land to Headquarters for Canada’s 1%. An interesting and informative history ...
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Tours in other cities. About the tour guide. An interesting and informative history of the Parliament buildings, a history you will not learn in the “official tours”. The history of the workers, of citizens and their struggles to be heard on the Hill while still visiting all the major buildings and monuments – only seeing them through a different lens. Informative and challenging. A great addition for visitors and locals alike. September 30, 2015. Brian is incredibly knowledgeable and provided not only s...
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Building the Rideau Canal and the Making of the Ottawa Working Class | Peoples' History Walking Tours
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Tours in other cities. About the tour guide. Building the Rideau Canal and the Making of the Ottawa Working Class. Between 1826 and 1832, the Rideau Canal was built by the British colonial authorities for military defence purposes. More than 200 km. in length and including 45 locks, the canal uses the Rideau River, Rideau Lakes and the Catarqui River to join Ottawa and Kingston. Other topics covered while exploring the area around the first 8 locks of the canal include:. Corktown: the Irish shantytown.
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Indigenous Peoples and Colonialism in the History of Canada’s Capital | Peoples' History Walking Tours
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Tours in other cities. About the tour guide. Indigenous Peoples and Colonialism in the History of Canada’s Capital. Like other parts of North America, the Ottawa-Gatineau region was once acknowledged to be Indigenous land by colonial settlers. Through a unilateral and fraudulent ‘legal’ process, colonial officials dispossessed the Algonquin of the territory that includes present-day Ottawa. Tecumseh’s revolutionary pan-Indian alliance and the war of 1812;. The Metis Rebellion of 1885 and its suppression;.
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Tours in other cities. About the tour guide. Tours last between 2.5 and 3 hours and cost $25 (cash) payable at the end of the tour. All tours are available any day of the week, morning or afternoon, provided there are at least three people registered. To assist in scheduling, we suggest the following possible days and times for each tour:. Every Thursday at 9:30 AM. Tour every Friday at 9:30 AM. Every Saturday at 9:30 AM. Tour every Sunday at 9:30 AM. The 2016 tour season starts on Thursday, May 5. An in...
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Protest, strike and rebellion in Canada’s Capital | Peoples' History Walking Tours
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Tours in other cities. About the tour guide. Protest, strike and rebellion in Canada’s Capital. This tour visits 9-10 sites of protest, strike and rebellion to highlight some of the key events in the history of Ottawa and Canada, from events originating locally like the 1849 Stoney Monday Riot, to those which started elsewhere like the 1971 Abortion Rights Caravan. At each site, we will explore the context for the event, its outcome, and its significance for today. 250 years of Algonquin protests. These ...
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Tours in other cities. About the tour guide. Peoples’ History: Ottawa walking tours with a difference. Peoples’ History Walking Tours is an Ottawa-based tour business that is inspired by similar tours in other cities throughout North American and Europe. In August 2014, a special Peoples Social Forum edition of the radical newspaper The Leveller. Ran a story about our Rideau Canal. In May 2015, CBC radio’s Saturday morning program,. In Town and Out,. Ran an extended interview. While the April-May 2016 ve...
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80th Anniversary of the On-to-Ottawa Trek and the Campaign for Unemployment Insurance
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Tours in other cities. About the tour guide. 80th Anniversary of the On-to-Ottawa Trek and the Campaign for Unemployment Insurance. 80th Anniversary of the On-to-Ottawa Trek and the Campaign for Unemployment Insurance. Eighty years ago, on July 1, 1935, millionaire Conservative Prime Minister, R. B. Bennett ordered the RCMP to crush the On-to-Ottawa Trek involving thousands of young unemployed men. (That is one of the stories I tell during my Protest, Strike and Rebellion walking tour. That June 1935 mee...