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History undergraduate student Marielle Rochefort is part of the Bytown Museum Youth Council, a dedicated group who will be bringing a new exhibit to the Bytown Museum. Below is an excerpt from the article. The is available online.

The Bytown Museum Youth Council was the recipient of September’s Awesome Ottawa Award, a no-strings-attached grant that is handed out each month by the Ottawa chapter of the Awesome Foundation to projects its members consider “awesome.” The museum’s 14-member youth council, whose participants range from high school sophomores to soon-to-be university graduates, is planning to use the money to create a permanent photo exhibition showcasing youth in Ottawa over the past 100 years.

The researchers have started compiling photos, digging through the museum’s own collections, as well as City of Ottawa Archives, Library and Archives Canada, and even Lisgar Collegiate Institute yearbooks. The exhibit is set to open in early 2017.

One council member said the project will enhance local history.

“(It’s) special because we’re creating an exhibit that shines a light on youth, a segment of the population we find are often ignored in history,” said Marielle Rochefort, a history student at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University. “We’re having a lot of fun as a group digging through archives and finding pieces of Ottawa’s history.”