Volunteer

CCOC hosted the launch of the City of Ottawa’s new recycling bag initiative at our 464 Metcalfe property on September 2, 2015. Mayor Jim Watson and City Councillor David Chernushenko (Capital Ward) announced the City’s new offer which will make recycling bags available to apartment buildings and other multi-residential buildings until December 2015. We’re excited to see recycling […]

Several decades have passed since Carl Dow impatiently waited to learn how to fly, and Beaver Barracks has been transformed. What was once a World War II military barracks and mess hall in the 1940s is now home to 254 households in downtown Ottawa. We couldn’t be more proud of CCOC’s newest property… But one thing […]

While he may be new to the position of President, Bill Rooney is no stranger to the CCOC Board. After retiring from a 25-year social work career with the City of Ottawa at the beginning of May in 2002 he was elected to the Board that same month at CCOC’s Annual General Meeting. He was […]

I started volunteering with CCOC in summer 2013. I was new to Ottawa and looking for opportunities to get involved in the community. On the invitation of a friend, I attended a meeting of CCOC’s Property Management Committee. After my first meeting, I knew this was an organization that I wanted to be a part […]

Toby and David moved into their CCOC triplex on Flora Street over 33 years ago. Since then they have been active members of their community on many levels. But their journey to activism goes back much further, all the way to that day 51 years ago when Martin Luther King gave his powerful speech,“I Have […]

Twenty-two years ago CCOC started a pretty cool thing: giving away flowers to tenants. Our original motivations were pretty pragmatic: it was cheaper for us to buy all our tenants some pretty annuals than it was to hire professional landscapers. The program has expanded a lot since 1992. We’ve added perennials, we’ve added herbs and vegetables, […]

CCOC built our first building at 50 James Street in 1979. This five storey building with twenty-two apartments has nine planter boxes where tenants grow vegetables, herbs and flowers. In the late 70’s and 80’s, under the National Housing Act funding, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) would fund green roofs and planter box gardens […]