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reclaim abundance

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Reusable architectural and design salvage gets junked everyday. The Rejoinery–currently a pilot project–rehomes it.

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reclaim abundance

reclaim abundancereclaim abundancereclaim abundance

Reusable architectural and design salvage gets junked everyday. The Rejoinery–currently a pilot project–rehomes it.

Learn more

Our Mission

 To preserve and rehome Ottawa’s material past—salvaging, restoring, and sharing architectural elements and domestic design objects through public exhibitions, education, and equitable redistribution. Join us and become active keepers of cultural memory.

Help us make the Rejoinery a reality

Our aspiration

Our pilot project

Our pilot project

To give new life to old things by:

  • Salvaging architectural and domestic design objects
  • Restoring salvage in public-facing studios
  • Exhibiting salvage in curated room displays
  • Rehoming items on a stewardship-based sliding scale
  • Educating communities on Ottawa's design history and heritage

Our pilot project

Our pilot project

Our pilot project

We're working diligently to make the Rejoinery a reality. In January 2026, we initiated a pilot project with Carleton University Curatorial Studies students in collaboration with community and industry partners in heritage salvage, restoration, and interpretation. Together we are working to produce an exhibition to recontextualize salvage in an imagined 21st century interior. Coming April 2026.

Next steps

Our pilot project

Next steps

The pilot will lay the groundwork for the Rejoinery to launch officially. In the meantime, we are also looking for workshop and exhibit space, developing mobile pop-up programming, and building partnerships with educational institutions, heritage organizations, and city agencies. We are also pursuing multi-year funding and are developing revenue streams to ensure future sustainability.

Our Vision

Our pilot project

Next steps

To create a culture of enough, where abundance is measured not by novelty or excess, but by access, stewardship, and care. 


If your vision aligns with ours, contact us. We're building our community and are seeking like-minded property owners, developers, educators, historians, community organizers, sponsors, tradespeople, and designers.

About us

A sample of what we've salvaged....

How it works

Stages in the Rejoinery project cycle

  1. Homeowners and developers let us know when a property is slated for demolition/major renovation.
  2. We assess the site and coordinate our salvage operation with the property owners.
  3. We salvage, restore, recondition/adapt salvage for reuse.
  4. We exhibit salvaged items in a storefront popup, advertising them for rehoming.
  5. Interested parties contact us to negotiate stewardship/rehoming/purchase.
  6. Successful bidders make a stewardship pledge, purchase, and take possession of the item, integrating in within their home.


Rejoinery operates on a not-for-profit model. The proceeds of sales offset the costs of salvage, restoration, and exhibition.

Join the Community

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Why Ottawa, why now?

Our heritage is at risk

'New' is not sustainable

'New' is not sustainable

  Ottawa needs housing. As existing properties are expanded or demolished to make way for urban intensification, building materials and architectural elements are at risk of being thrown away.

'New' is not sustainable

'New' is not sustainable

'New' is not sustainable

 Salvage reveals what demolition conceals: that the built environment contains more than enough to build again—differently, sustainably.   

The Rejoinery is a place where fragments are not merely saved, but rethought, revalued, and re-lived.

It belongs to everyone

Display space for the common good

Display space for the common good

 We aim to make salvaged heritage accessible. Our sliding scale is not a concession—it is an ethical commitment to ensuring materials are rehomed equitably.

Display space for the common good

Display space for the common good

Display space for the common good

COVID-19 left many commercial vacancies in its wake. The Rejoinery  will activate empty store fronts for good. Exhibiting salvaged materials and items helps us to foster a culture of enough.

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