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Ottawa is situated on the south bank of the Ottawa River, and contains the mouths of the Rideau River and Rideau Canal. The oldest part of the city (including Bytown) is known as Lower Town and occupies an area between the canal and the rivers. Across the canal to the west lies Centretown (or downtown) - the hub.
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BYTOWN MUSEUMThe Bytown Museum is a small museum in Ottawa located on the lower locks of the Rideau Canal at the Ottawa River just below Parliament Hill. The museum's exhibits follow the early history of the city, originally known as Bytown, and the construction of the Rideau Canal. The museum is housed in a stone building designed by Thomas McKay and built in 1827 ... |
CANADIAN WAR MUSEUMThe Canadian War Museum (CWM) is Canada's national museum of military history. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, the museum covers all facets of Canada's military past, from the first recorded instances of death by armed violence in Canadian history several thousand years ago to the country's most recent involvement in conflicts ... |
CENTRE BLOCKThe Centre Block is the main building of the Canadian parliamentary complex on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, containing the Commons and Senate chambers, as well as the offices of a number of Members of Parliament and Senators, as well as senior administration for both legislative houses. It is also the location of several ceremonial spaces ... |
CHATEAU LAURIERThe Fairmont Château Laurier is a landmark hotel in Downtown Ottawa, located near the intersection of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive designed in the Châteauesque style. Château Laurier was commissioned by Grand Trunk Railway chairman Charles Melville Hays, and was constructed between 1909 and 1912 in tandem with Ottawa's downtown Union Station ... |
MUSEUM OF NATUREThe Canadian Museum of Nature is a natural history museum in Ottawa. Its collections, which were started by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1856, include all aspects of the intersection of human society and nature, from gardening to gene-splicing. The building, known as the Victoria Memorial Museum Building, was built in former farm fields known as Appin Place ... |
NATIONAL GALLERYThe National Gallery of Canada, located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries. The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was designed by Moshe Safdie and opened in 1988 ... |
NATIONAL WAR MEMORIALThe National War Memorial (also known as The Response), is a tall granite cenotaph with acreted bronze sculptures, that stands in Confederation Square, Ottawa, and serves as the federal war memorial for Canada. Originally built to commemorate the First World War, in 1982 it was rededicated to include the Second World War and the Korean War ... |
O-TRAINThe O-Train is a light-rail transit (LRT) service in Ottawa. The present line runs north-south on a railway line, from Bayview to Greenboro, a distance of approximately 8 kilometres. It is entirely isolated from road traffic, but shared with other trains; after operating hours the track has been infrequently used by Ottawa Central for freight service to the National Research Council ... |
PARLIAMENT HILLParliament Hill (colloquially The Hill) is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River. Its Gothic revival suite of buildings - the parliament buildings - serves as the home of the Parliament of Canada and contains a number of architectural elements of national symbolic importance. Parliament Hill attracts approximately 3 million visitors each year ... |
RIDEAU CANALThe Rideau Canal, also known as the Rideau Waterway, connects the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on the Ottawa River to the city of Kingston, Ontario on Lake Ontario. The canal was opened in 1832 as a precaution in case of war with the United States and is still in use today, with most of its original structures intact ... |
SPARKS STREETSparks Street is a street in downtown Ottawa, that was converted into an outdoor pedestrian street in 1966, making it the earliest such street or mall in North America. Sparks runs from Elgin Street in the east to Bronson Avenue. The Sparks Street Mall, that contains a number of outdoor restaurants and also a number of works of art and fountains, only runs from Elgin to Bank Street ... |
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