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Travel Guide – Ottawa, Canada


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Otto is Canada’s fourth-largest City hi
welcome to watchmojo.com
I’m your host Christine and today we’ll
continue our travel series with a look
at Canada’s capital located in the
Ottawa Valley Ottawa is the capital of
Canada it was chosen as such by Queen
Victoria in 1857 for its strategic
location as a compromise between two
colonies and the French and English
population the climate in Ottawa has a
varied range in temperatures with the
record high being a hundred degrees
Fahrenheit the city receives roughly 93
inches of snow annually between
mid-december and early April daytime
temperatures in January average 13
degrees Fahrenheit average temperatures
in July or 80 degrees Fahrenheit with
high humidity being an irritating issue
attracting approximately three million
visitors each year
Ottawa’s Parliament Hill is home to
Canada’s landmark government building
the best-known of the Parliament
Buildings is the centre block which
includes the Peace Tower a national
symbol inside the centre block is the
House of Commons and senate’s chambers
and the Library of Parliament the entire
parliamentary compound measures 112
thousand 360 square miles the Rideau
Canal connects Ottawa on the Ottawa
River to Kingston on Lake Ontario
registered as a unesco world heritage
site in 2007 the canal measures 126
miles
today both tours on the canal are
offered and recreational boaters use it
to travel between Ottawa and Kingston
showcasing over 3 million tulips Ottawa
plants more of a flower per capita than
any other City
tulip bulbs were a gift from the Dutch
royal family in 1945 after Canada
sheltered the princess during the Second
World War and played a large part in
liberating the Netherlands
Ottawa’s Canadian Museum of Civilization
is Canada’s most visited Museum and
traces over a thousand years of Canadian
history the National Gallery of Canada
holds the world’s most comprehensive
collection of Canadian and Inuit art
Otto is also home to the worst largest
collection of hedged mazes with Saunders
farm housing nine large mazes and a
series of puzzle mazes with over 50
galleries and theaters in the area
heritage buildings parks and shopping
locations the toughest problems visitors
in Ottawa is deciding what to do
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