Ottawa Maker's Shed

07/17/2026

The Ottawa Maker's Shed is now a registered charity. Good to be recognized for the important work that is being done to help our community.

Our purposes are

(a) To advance education by providing classes on the subjects of safety training (e.g. first aid, CPR, and fire safety), fabrication methods, and use of tools to the general public.
(b) To relieve conditions attributable to being aged by organizing social and recreation activities for aged persons who are experiencing social isolation and loneliness.
(c) To do all such things as are incidental or ancillary to the attainment of the above purposes.

The website is

An Ottawa Men's Shed with a Workshop and the men who know how to use it for Community Service

10/24/2025

The Ottawa Maker's Shed helps to combat isolation and loneliness in our community. We do community minded projects as well as personal projects in our workshop.

We have received a modest grant from Men's Sheds Canada to add some tools to our shed.

Our members are mostly retired but still have energy and a desire to contribute to our community. We love to do big and challenging things. Since 2023 we have restored three 28 foot pontoon boats from the waterline up. Nobody else would touch them and yet our members knew that a local charity depended on them.

Because of our work this past season alone Catch a Smile was able to take almost 3,000 people in wheelchairs and with other challenges, for cruises on the Rideau Canal and Rideau River.