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While one might expect that the owner of a coffee business would be a lifelong java aficionado, entrepreneur Ed Hemphill’s love for a good brew came later in life.
Hemphill is the owner of Bean Around Town, a company that supplies offices with high-quality coffee from state-of-the-art machines and counts Home Depot and the Bytown Museum among its clients.
Before launching Bean Around Town in 2014, Hemphill ran his own investment business. Upon moving to Paris for two years with his wife, Hemphill sold his business to “take full advantage of the Parisian experience.”
OTTAWA Calling all history and transit buffs! The Bytown Museum is hosting a virtual event on the history of Ottawa’s public transit. As the city continues to expand the LRT, the museum will look back at what public transit has been like in the capital over the past century, “Going all the way from when we first got paved roads, through the infamous streetcar period in Ottawa’s history, to the Transitway and the development of OC Transpo and the bus system, up until what it’s become today,” says the museum’s visitor experience manager, Stephen Mattiussi.
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This #breakingmews has got to be an April Fool’s joke and not just because of the date.
It’s obviously laughable that travellers would be able to resist petting Rusty as per the instructions on the orange tabby’s wee vest.
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“Move over, Rover,” the Ottawa airport tweeted Thursday morning with the news that it has enlisted the first detector cat.
He’s tasked with “sniffing out things that might be fishy” like Poisson d’avril.
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Museums and galleries
National Gallery of Canada: Virtual NGC presents online access to some of the Gallery’s Canadian, Indigenous and international collections. Plus, kids and adults can get creative with online activities.
Canadian Museum of History: The Museum at Home portal brings Canada’s most visited museum to your home, including a 360˚ tour of the Canadian History Hall, exhibitions, crafts, games, films and more.
Canadian War Museum: You can access online exhibitions, videos, activities, resources, and even behind-the-scenes content through the Museum at Home portal.
Canadian Museum of Nature: The museum invites you to Explore Nature through their 3D self-guided tour, virtual behind-the-scenes tours, videos, activities and more.