Some in-branch programs require registration with your library card. Please log in with your library account or follow this link to apply for a card online. You can also apply for a card in person at any of our 33 locations.
Maintaining healthy eating habits throughout the lifespan is important. Participants will learn about changing dietary needs and eating habits as we age, reflect on their own eating habits, needs and challenges, discuss healthy eating, and explore opportunities to expand their options.
For older adults.
Registration limited. Please pre-register online.
Adults are invited to join us in making their own cards. Make greeting cards for your loved ones for any occasion. Supplies are provided but feel free to also bring your own. All skill levels are welcome. Come along and have fun! Registration is required.
Our final book club sessions before the summer break!
We invite you to come rave about a few of your favourite books, and share with other passionate readers.
Whether it be an old love from your childhood, or something new and amazing that recently crossed your path, we want to see what you recommend everyone should read and hear why you loved it!
A list of the recommended titles will appear on the website after the event*, to share with other members of the community what Cumberland-branch clients are reading.
We are excited to see your recommendations!
*Please note that the published list will be limited to titles currently in the OPL collection.
Presented by Dying With Dignity Canada (Ottawa Chapter), End of Life Options (including MAiD) is a workshop to educate people about the options available to mitigate or end suffering at life's end, including palliative care, treatment options, and Medical Assistance In Dying (MAiD). Workshop includes the current legislation on MAiD, the process for applying in Ontario and explanation of the experience by a loved one.
Come meet to enjoy and discuss a wide variety of books selected by book club members. All are welcome!
Every second Thursday of the month from 1.30pm to 3.00pm.
Here's what we're reading in 2025:
June: Banned Books (Read a banned book of your choosing!)
July: Pageboy by Elliot Page
August: Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons by Charlotte Gray
September: All Things Consoled by Elisabeth Hay
October: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
November: Ducks by Kate Beaton
Notre dernière session avant les vacances d'été !
Nous vous invitons à vous extasier sur vos livres francophones préférés, pour en partager votre amour avec d'autres lecteurs/lectrices passionné.e.s !
Qu'il s'agissent de coups de cœur de votre jeunesse ou des nouvelles rencontres dans votre parcours de lecture, une liste des titres partagés sera publiée sur le site web de la BPO*, afin d'attirer des nouveaux lecteurs aux titres francophones lus par la communauté de la succursale Cumberland.
Au plaisir de découvrir vos recommendations!
* Veuillez noter que la liste publiée sera limitée aux titres actuellement dans la collection de la BPO.
Learn how to extend the battery life of your PC laptop, discover the handy Microsoft PowerToys, detect fake USB flash drives before you lose data, learn why you should avoid PC "fix-it" utilities, and embed music in PowerPoint presentations. Chris Taylor, President of the Ottawa PC Users' Group, will help you with these quick and effective remedies.
If you plan to attend, please register to ensure the program is presented.
Do you love puzzles?
Would you like to try new ones and trade your old ones?
Bring a puzzle, take a puzzle!
Aimez-vous les casse-têtes?
Aimeriez-vous échanger vos casse-têtes usagés et en essayer de nouveaux?
Vous donnez et vous recevez!
Tourné « à hauteur d’enfant » et proposant une vision novatrice de la jeunesse autochtone, ce puissant documentaire est marqué par l’absence totale de la parole des adultes et des « experts de la jeunesse ». Il laisse ainsi toute la place à la nouvelle génération, et à son désir ardent d’être entendue.
Filmed from “a child’s eye-view” and presenting a groundbreaking vision of contemporary Indigenous youth, this documentary is notable for the complete absence of adult voices and “experts on young people”—holding space instead for a new generation with a burning desire to be heard.
2024. 93 minutes. Version originale française, anglaise, innu-aimun et atikamekw, sous-titres anglais / Original French, English, Innu Aimun and Attikamekw version, English subtitles. Réalisatrice / Director: Kim O'Bomsawin
L'Office national du film du Canada / National Film Board of Canada
Portes ouvertes / Drop-in
Join us as award-winning British journalist and author, Ursula Buchan, recounts the remarkable life and legacy of her grandfather: John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) - war correspondent, journalist, prolific thriller writer, barrister, British Member of Parliament and Governor General of Canada.
Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan's biography, written by Ursula Buchan, is available at the Ottawa Public Library.