Ottawa celebrated its 200th birthday on Saturday, September 26, 2026, two centuries after the founding of Bytown. The City’s official Ottawa 200 Block Party filled Marion Dewar Plaza at City Hall from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. with a family zone, hands-on activities and local food vendors, and OC Transpo buses and the O-Train were free all weekend. Families who want to keep the bicentennial going can cook a recipe printed in Upper Canada in 1831, five years after Bytown began. The next free weekday for it is Friday, October 2: a PA day with no school at both the OCDSB and the OCSB.
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