Inside Ottawa — February 2021

The new Ottawa Public Library (OPL)–Library and Archives Canada (LAC)

is an exciting joint facility in downtown Ottawa that includes many features that make it a model of green infrastructure in the national capital. The facility is scheduled to open in late 2024, with an official opening in 2025. It promises to be a cultural showplace for the country’s heritage, a meeting place for local residents and visitors alike, and thanks to federal funding announced last week, it will feature the latest net-zero carbon building practices.

Valecraft gives from the heart

Valecraft Homes, one of Ottawa’s most established homebuilders, recently donated $10,000 to the University of Ottawa Heart Institute on behalf of all the families who purchased from them. Jean-Guy Rivard of Valecraft Homes presented the donation to Canada’s largest cardiovascular health centre in a virtual cheque hand-off earlier this month.

Minto dream home naming contest

Are you good with names? Then this might be the contest for you.

The 2021 Minto Dream Home for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) is in the works but right now there’s one thing missing—a name for this year’s contest!

After 21 years in the making, here’s a chance to win a bundle of three CHEO Dream of a Lifetime Lottery tickets and an exclusive home tour for you and a friend. All you have to do to enter is come up with a name that’s 20 characters or less . Visit this website for entry and contest details, ow.ly/MMT550DsBUd