Mother’s Day in Ottawa Gift Guide
9 May 2025
There is still time to find a gift that will make her day.
🌹 Koena Spa (1172 Chemin d’Aylmer, Gatineau, Québéc J9H 5T2) has a long list of thermal experiences for her to enjoy on her own or with a friend.
🌹 Spend a little (a single Mom heart cookie for $6.50) or more (Mother’s Day cake that serves six to eight, from $50) at Ottawa’s Batter up Bakery. 613-793-CAKE (2253).
🌹 Montréal’s Dot & Lil has a selection of Mom-worthy skincare products on 20% discount until May 12.
🌹 Matter Company of Toronto is offering free shipping on orders of $50 or more. New parents will appreciate the Mom & Baby Travel Pack ($38) or give her a Hand and Foot Pack to soothe her extremities. Or splurge on the Homebody Kit ($89) so she can book a self care evening for herself.
🌹 The wine-lover will appreciate this Bouquet of Rosés from Savvy Company. She’ll receive five Ontario rosés, two tasting glasses, and a $20 gift certificate for a wine on the Savvy Company’s list. $119.
🌹 Why just treat her when you can enjoy the present too? Red Apron’s Mother’s Day High Tea Box will is an afternoon experience for six: It contains ‘Bake From Frozen’ vanilla Scones, Devonshire Cream, house-made Strawberry Rhubarb Jam, and 15 proper English Breakfast Tea Bogs. $57. Available for pick up only (no delivery) Friday May 10 or Saturday May 11. Check the Red Apron website for all of the Mother’s Day meals. 410 Gladstone Ave. K2P 0Z1
🌹 Use the code MOTHER at Barefoot Venus for 15% off almost everything site wide.
🌹 Give her some locally made glamour: the Ash Posy Hand Luxe Cream in Sea Buckthorn is formulated with cold pressed and vitamin-rich berries and avoids that nasty greasy feel. $25.
🌹 Present her with breakfast in bed: Wellington Butchery is offering a house-made 10-inch Mother’s Day Quiche made with ham, Gruyere cheese, and caramelized onion that you can heat and serve at home.
🌹 Spend the morning with her at the Experimental Farm's 2024 Friends of the Farm Plant Sale. Along shopping for plants, cards, gifts and gardening books, she can ask the experts from the Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton her gardening questions. Rain or shine from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm in the parking lot beside K.W. Neatby Building at 960 Carling K1Y 4X2 and Maple Drive (look for the signs).
🌹 The City suggests a City of Ottawa gift certificate that can be used for ‘courses and camps, drop-in activities and memberships’, including City of Ottawa-owned theatres.
🌹 Stop by Bicycle Craft Brewery for a cold one and shop for a Mother's Day bouquet from Riverfront Florals. Available today through Sunday while supplies last.
🌹 Perth Brewery is taking pre-orders on Beer & Bouquets, featuring a locally grown organic bouque from Plush Petals and a can of beer.
🌹 Bring your own box – and cash — for the plants you’re going to buy at the Mother’s Day Weekend Flower Market & Potted Plant Sale in the impossibly attractive town of Almonte.
🌹 Inside Ottawa Valley suggests Mother’s Day High Tea at the Navy League in Carleton Place, Art in the Attic at Almonte Old Town Hall, a train ride at the Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario in Smiths Falls, the Eastern Ontario Craft and Gift Mother’s Day Market in Grenville, Mom’s Garden Day in Rideau Lakes, and Canthooks Mother’s Day Brunch in Calabogie.
🌹 🚗 Road Trip: Pembroke’s sweet boutique West on Main is holding its annual Mother’s Day Mingle from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Do some shopping, enjoy light refreshments, and maybe win a giveaway.
🌹 Shop for a last minute gift at the York Street Mother's Day Market.
🌹 Make time for Day 2 of the Vpop at Next Door Market. Ottawa welcomes human and fur moms, dads, babies and everyone else to the Mother's Day Edition market (today and tomorrow).
🌹 🚗 Road Trip: Visit Hummingbird Chocolate in the incredibly charming town of Almonte for Chocolate Fondue with Mom.
🌹 Head to Manotick for the Mill Tavern's Mimosas & Moms Mothers Day Brunch.
🌹 Stop by Ottawa Farmers Market for a gift or bouquet for your mother figure.
🌹 Jojo Coco has chocolate gifts from across Canada and even chocolate and tea bundles; whichever you choose they're sure to bring a smile to Mom's face.
🌹 Around the Block Butchers are raffling off a Basket of Goodies worth $250 in honour of Mother's Day. Proceeds will benefit Pinecrest Terrace Community House Food Bank. Tickets cost $10 each and while you're picking one up, take a look at the Mother's Day meals to heat at home: quiches, roasts, charcuterie boxes, and desserts are all on the menu.