'Virtual museum' to showcase Rideau Canal

Soon a new online exhibit will show how the canal and its surrounding town grew, changed shape, and kept growing, with a website combining engineering plans and historic paintings to build computer images of Ottawa’s past.

CIMS' to present at the XXIIIrd International CIPA Symposium

Nevil Wood will deliver a presentation at the XXIIIrd International CIPA Symposium in Prague, Czech Republic on March 14th, 2011.  

New tools to peel back the history of the Rideau Locks

The architectural and cultural history of the construction of the Rideau Canal, considered a World Heritage Site, will soon be available as a unique web-based virtual museum.

Doors Open Ottawa

This Saturday, June 4th, CIMS will be taking part in Doors Open Ottawa.  We will be opening our doors from 10:00am to 4:00pm to showcase some of our exciting work relating to heritage documentation and conservatio...[more]

Building a Brain

Architecture student Crystal Hanley is making processes in the brain more visually accessible.

Heritage Passages: Bytown and the Rideau Canal

Heritage Passages: Bytown and the Rideau Canal brings together extensive archival holdings and diverse expertise for the creation of a dynamic web-based exhibition that presents an architectural history of the "mouth" or Entrance Bay of the Rideau Canal. Focusing on the development of the Bytown Locks from the arrival of Colonel John By in 1826 to the incorporation of the City of Ottawa in 1855, the exhibition will allow visitors to explore parallels between the political, industrial, and civic forces that gave form to the future capital of Canada and to the Rideau Canal – now a World Heritage Site.