club no. 101 chartered with probus canada

   Probus Club of Ottawa Alta Vista

   sponsored by the rotary club of ottawa

SPEAKER PROGRAM

September 24th, Garry Smith
1991 Canada - Russia Hockey Series

Gary Smith, a former Canadian diplomat and ambassador, will tell us about the 1991 Canada - Russia Hockey Series which he helped to negotiate.

Gary dedicated over thirty years to serving on eight foreign assignments. He earned an honours BA in Political Science from York University and was a Fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs.

Gary is also a published author, with works such as "Ice War Diplomat" that led to the creation of the documentary "Ice-Breaker: The '72 Summit Series."

October 22nd, David Allston
The Early History of Ottawa's West-end

Dave Allston is the Heritage Asset Manager for the Department of National Defence, where he has worked since 2008.

He is a member of the NCC's Advisory Committee on Toponymy, which is responsible for reviewing place naming and renaming.

Dave contributes to local media (Citizen, CBC) as a local historian, and has been writing a monthly local history column in the west end newspaper "Kitchissippi Times" since 2015.

His presentation will be on the early history of Ottawa's west-end neighbourhoods and the challenges associated with starting from scratch in researching and storytelling local history.

Our "tradition" is to have a Military/Remenbrance speaker for the meeting before Remembrance Day but our original October speaker asked to delay for a month. Our thanks to Dave who kindly kindly agreed to swap places.

toponymy: taxonomic study of place-names, based on etymological, historical, and geographical information. A place-name is a word or words used to indicate, denote, or identify a geographic locality such as a town, river, or mountain. (Britannica)

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They are in the process of joining with Belair Direct, but this link will still give you access.

Guests and Visitors from other Clubs are welcome.

Meetings are at:

Gloucester Presbyterian Church
91 Pike Street
Ottawa K1T 3J6

Pike Street runs north from Hunt Club just west of Conroy. The church is at the corner of Lorry Greenberg and Pike. The parking lot entrance is off Pike.

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