Custom Tours & Other Services

Custom tours

Peoples’ History Walking Tours currently offers ten standard tours. We also provide custom tours and presentations on aspects of Ottawa’s radical history. Got a special need or interest that is not covered by one of our existing tours? No problem. Contact us and we will try to accommodate you.

Other services

Besides walking tours, we also provide popular educational services (e.g., talks, lectures and presentations). Brian McDougall has spoken about local history and current social justice movements for many kinds of audiences (academic, professional, historical, student, union and activist) around the city. Contact us for more information.

Past clients for tours or lectures include the following groups and organizations:

  • Trade Unions: United Steelworkers Summer Program // Ottawa CUPE District Council // Industrial Workers of the World (Ottawa) // CUPE 4600 // PSAC – NCR Regional Council // Canadian Association of Professional Employees – Local 514 // National Union of Provincial Government Employees // Canadian Association of Professional Employees – National // Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada – Health Canada // Confederation of Canadian Unions
  • Educational Institutions: Bishop Strachan School (Toronto) // Learning in Retirement Program – Carleton University // Indiana University // EF Educational Tours // Social Work – University of Ottawa
  • Student Organizations: Ontario Public Interest Group – University of Ottawa // Delta Lambda Phi Social Fraternity // Graduate Student Association – Carleton University // OPIRG – Carleton
  • Professional and Academic Conferences: Committee on River Ice Processes and the Environment // International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Inter-Congress // Ontario Heritage Conference // International Sustainability Transitions Conference // Smiths Falls Heritage Conference // Small Modernisms – Architectural History Conference // Canadian Congress of Leisure Studies
  • Government: Patented Medicine Prices Review Board // Indigenous Services Canada // Public Service Commission // Transport Canada // Public Services and Procurement Canada
  • Other Organizations: Ottawa Public Library // Jane’s Walks Ottawa // Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ottawa // International Friendship Club (Puerto Vallarta) // Workers History Museum // Historical Society of Ottawa // Nelligan Law // WeirFoulds LLP

Special note: Impact of construction on our tours

The Government of Canada has at least two major construction projects that may impact the route for some of our tours. We will modify tours as necessary.