The Canadian Museum of History

The museum, which opened at its current location in 1989, is celebrating 150 years of success. Built on the bank of the Ottawa River below Canada’s House of Parliament the museum site covers an area of 9.6 hectares (24 acres) and spans 3.5 city blocks. The footprint of the museum is approximately 100,000 square meters (over 1,000,000 square feet). Under a dome ceiling of 17 meters (56 feet), the varied history of Canada unfolds. The buildings and environment that make up Canada’s history are reconstructed and furnished with artifacts and in some cases animated by actors. Architect Douglas Cardinal from Red Deer Alberta designed the distinctive building, working with Michel Languedoc from the Montreal architectural firm of Tetreault, Parent, Languedoc and Associates Inc. Mr. Cardinal, who has Métis ancestry, is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Architecture. Cardinal’s buildings include the Edmonton Space Sciences Centre in Canada and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, which opened in September of 2004. Cardinal’s designs are easily recognizable for their curving forms with very few straight lines. His design statement is to

“speak of the emergence of this continent, its forms sculptured by the winds, the rivers, the glaciers.”

Condair worked closely with the local consulting engineer on the project. our resistive element humidifiers are the leading products in this area offering a packaged product for easy installation and maintenance, tight humidity control, and the ability to communicate with standard building management systems. When Condair won the bid for this exciting project we began working with an Ottawa based contractor on the first installation phase. The first 56 units were delivered in December 2005. Phase two for another 68 units was delivered in October 2006. Once all the units were installed Condair went to the Museum and provided extensive training on operation and maintenance of the humidifiers. While there, the team inspected the phase one units that had now been operating for almost a year and found them all operating exactly as specified with minimal maintenance required.