Ottawa

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Without a doubt our nations capital is opulent. The Ottawa Valley is very pretty with the Ottawa River and Rideau Rivers. We parked the fifth wheel and bought day passes for the bus, which was a very good way to travel and see the city. We started with standing in line for tickets to tour the parliment building and the historic parliment building, then watched the changing of the guard at 10 am with all its pomp and padgetry and the band was very enjoyable. After that the 2 tours. We had excellent tour guides and learned alot of facts we did not know including the soon to be addition of nunivit to our provinces. Our first Prime Minister Sir John A Macdonald had an incredible foresite in brining Canada together and did you know New Bruinswick is the only true biligunial province. I have dubbed the Parliment Building "the money pit" for all its splendor (its easy to restore and have a beautiful building with an endless supply of money) and this is where lots of our tax dollars go. Just a little cynicisim there. We had lunch in a Pub on the promenade and then onto the Gatineau and then the the musuem of Civilization. This was on the Quebec side of the river in Hull. Unfortunately we did not allow enough time and at 5:30 it was time to catch the last bus back to the 5th wheel. The next morning we left Ontario and are continuing on to our next destination Compton, Quebec.

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Photos

House of Commons
Again Blurry we were allowed on the floor because parliment is not in session

archway
so many of these down the halls

Statute Queen Victoria
this library is beautiful and houses thousand of documents and books the only building saved in a big fire because someone closed the iron doors

Library
the wood work is beautiful

Church
Looking across to Hull from the parliment grounds

The Senate
Red for Royalty

The Eternal Flame
this has all the provinces and the year they joined confederation

More Parliment
there were to many of these buildings to include them all

ceiling in foyer of legislative
Hand painted

House of Commons
got this a little blurry but wanted to show the stained glass windows every window depicts the provinces flower

Parliment Buildings
Peace Tower shown in fore front

Queen Elizabeth II
these bronze statutes are every where

5 women
declaring women should have equal rights

Baldwin, Lafontaine
Ministers of upper and lower canada at that time

Main Foyer of the Legislative building
the architecture is amazing

Canada Floor
these las 3 pictures were taken at the Museum of Civilization

Native Peoples Floor
unfortuately we can't remember the sculptors name but he is from BC