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Historical Society of Ottawa presents "Before Bytown: Uncovering our Region's Ancient Past"

Photograph of the Parliament Hill skyline taken between the end of the 19th century and 1916.

Jean-Luc Pilon, adjunct professor of sociology and anthropology at Carleton University as well as former curator of central archeology at the Canadian Museum of History will discuss the Ottawa region's ancient past.  

Bits and pieces of this complex puzzle have surface over the past century and a haft, only to disappear into museum vaults.

Yet, many of these imprecisely located finds, along with detailed notes, combined with new knowledge gained from more than 25 years of research carried out at the mouth of the Gatineau River, begin to shed a light on the thousands of years of history.