Richmond was founded in 1818 and is the oldest community within the current City of Ottawa.
To celebrate Richmond's 200th birthday in 2018, we have created the Richmond Passport Tour!
The Richmond 200 Passport Tour gives you the opportunity to explore Richmond by finding the 10 caches hidden around our village. Use a Passport (printable here) to make rubbings of each of the 10 special symbols found in the containers. Collect all 10 rubbings and submit your completed Passport to earn one free Richmond 200 Commemorative Coin!
Richmond was founded as a military settlement, and its original inhabitants were soldiers and their families. Across the street to the north is the Richmond Military Settlement Marker.
The Richmond Memorial Park has a Cenotaph that was created in 1988, which is a memorial inscribed with the phrase “In memory of those who served”. This is the location of Richmond’s Remembrance Day Ceremony in November, as well as annual Lighting of the Park during the holidays.
To print your own Passport, click here. To read the information on the cache insert, click here.
{Cache placed with land owners' permission.}