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By Jodi and Dan Asian Trip of a Lifetime
November 3rd 2008

The sweet taste of timmy's

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amazing sunset

How many movies can you watch during a 28 hour travel day? Jodi writing......... Dan and I arrived home late Saturday night. We arrived at Pearson airport, much to our embarassment, sporting flips flops and shorts (well only Dan was foolish enough to wear shorts). The truth is you are not really keen to pack warm November wear in mid July...so there we were. It was really cold. Our first stop inside the domestic terminal was Tim Hortons. Dan was actually able to stomach two large coffees while waiting for our flight to Ottawa. It did help with the cold. Thankfully [View Full Entry]

By smb543
November 2nd 2008

Back in Canada!

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Cielle in Time Square
ah, New York, New York :-)

Well I've now been in Canada for (eek!) almost 3 and a half months! Which I guess proves the old adage that time does fly when you're having fun!! :-) Cielle and I flew into New York from Frankfurt and had a really lovely couple of days hanging out and enjoying the atmosphere. We went out on the Staten Island ferry, ate sushi in the sun, visited ground zero and the new building project there, hung out in Central Park people watching, and I managed to catch a Louise Bourgeois retrospective at the Guggenheim and see some of the artworks that [View Full Entry]

By ChahtaSiaHoke
October 23rd 2008

Day Seven...

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First Nations People Exhibit, Musée Canadien des Civilisations

Bonjour! Day Seven was a good day, although, I didn't want to leave Ottawa, whatsoever ;) The day started with us packing our things up and loading the car. We went to Pharmacie Rideau, where we mailed our postcards back to the Mother. From there we got in the car and headed towards the Musée Canadien de la Guerre (Canadian War Museum). This museum was awesome! It started with the First Nations People and went all the way down to the Korean War. We started out going through the bottom floor, which I must agree with Sister, the paintings were up [View Full Entry]

By ChahtaSiaHoke
October 20th 2008

Day Five...

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O Canada!

Bonjour d'Ottawa!! I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE CANADA!!!! Yes, her majesty is so completely tired of hearing my say this, however, this is very true. I absolutely LOVE Ottawa and Canada. It has to be one of the most wonderful cities that I have been to in my lifetime. I love everything about Ottawa, the people, the bilingualism, the culture, the museums, the natural wonders, everything! It is absolutely GREAT! Today started off as usual; Her majesty and I running on Indian time... AKA late as usual white people time, hahaha. We start [View Full Entry]

By umyl026
October 11th 2008

Sightseeing in Ottawa and Gatineau

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City bus tour Ottawa On Friday after noon I tooK the city bus tour around Ottawa. It was a bright sunny day perfect for sitting on the top deck of an open bus. Trip to Gatineau Today I am taking a tour out to Gatineau Park to see the wildlife. [View Full Entry]

By umyl026
October 10th 2008

University of Ottawa

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Uni of Ottawa

University of Ottawa Digitization in Canada by John Teskey This is a mass digitization project being carried out by different institutions including UofT and LAC. The aim is to digitize books and papers by Canadians and about Canada. The final service will be delivered through Canadiana.org. Currently have 200,000 metadata records loaded representing 1 million objects. National science library, emerging roles in the Canadian context: CISTI The model in Canada for the collection of STM materials is different from the Uk. [View Full Entry]

By umyl026
October 9th 2008

Library and Archives Canada preservation centre

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LAC

Library and Archives Canada preservation centre visit We spent the morning at the LAC preservation centre in Gatineau. We did not really know what to expect from this visit but it turned out to be fascinating. We met a number of the technical staff carrying out preservation work and digitization projects. We were also taken into the storage containers and had the safety and the control features explained. Amazing building that should be used in a sci-fi film. LAC website [View Full Entry]

By umyl026
October 9th 2008

Library of Parliament

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Tour of Parliament

Library of Parliament visit Our visit to the Parliament began with a tour of the buildings by one of the public guides. We got to see both the House of Commons and the senate. We were also taken up the memorial tower that has all the names of the war dead in a beautiful book. The pages are turned each day so that all those that lost their lives we remembered during the year. After the public tour we were taken on a special tour of the Parliament library that most visitors are not able to do. The Parliament library was [View Full Entry]

By umyl026
October 8th 2008

Travel to Ottawa

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Marriott hotel

Travel to Ottawa After we left Ryerson we went straight to the airport to catch a flight to Ottawa. I cannot tell you anything about the flight as I fell asleep before we even took off and and only woke upwhen we landed. The Yow airports bus that I had booked was ready and waiting for us. We got to the Marriott in good time to yet changed and get out for dinner. [View Full Entry]

By umyl026
October 8th 2008

CARL Dinner

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CARL Dinner After arriving in Ottawa at 6.15 pm it was a quick turn around at the hotel and a cab ride to the Byward Market and the Black Thorn Café. It was a good opportunity to meet members of CARL that come from right across Canada. [View Full Entry]

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