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Thali by Coconut Lagoon
Thali by Coconut Lagoon is a restaurant at 136 O'Connor Street in Ottawa, in the downtown core. It is a place to sit down for a meal rather than a sight to tick off, which makes it an easy stop to fit into a day of explo…
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Tamis Cafe & Restaurant
Tamis Cafe & Restaurant, at 374 Bank St in Ottawa, is a neighbourhood eatery and a stop for street art. Its address is tied to We Demand, a mural painted in 2011 to mark 40 years since a landmark 1971 protest for gay…
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Marion Dewar Plaza
Marion Dewar Plaza is the public square in front of Ottawa City Hall on Laurier Avenue West in downtown Ottawa. It is named after Marion Dewar, a former Mayor of Ottawa and Member of Parliament who is remembered for her …
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Yousuf Karsh Sculpture
The Yousuf Karsh Sculpture in Ottawa honours one of Canada's most celebrated portrait photographers, a refugee who became the person world leaders wanted to be photographed by. It stands in the area between Byward Market…
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Black Lives Matter Mural
The Black Lives Matter Mural in Ottawa is a community artwork by the artist Kalkidan Assefa, found in the Centretown area of the city and tied to the McNabb Community Centre. It matters as much for what happened to it as…
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The Lion Dance mural
The Lion Dance mural is a piece of street art at 726 Somerset St W in Ottawa's Chinatown, painted by local artist Dan Metcalfe. It shows a northern-style lion dance costume in a night scene of fireworks and lotus flowers…
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Rockcliffe Park and the Rockeries
Rockcliffe Park is one of Ottawa's most exclusive neighbourhoods, and the Rockeries are its landscaped rock gardens, at their best when the spring bulbs come through. The lookout gives you the Ottawa River and the Gatine…
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Stornoway Residence
Stornoway is the official residence of the Leader of the Opposition in Canada, in Ottawa's leafy Rockcliffe Park. You can only see it from the street, but it is a quiet reminder that the neighbourhood houses much of the …
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National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada is the country's national art museum, standing on Sussex Drive in Ottawa, close to Parliament Hill and the ByWard Market. It holds major collections of Canadian, Indigenous and European art…
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House of Commons of Canada
The House of Commons of Canada is the elected lower house of the country's Parliament, where Members of Parliament debate and pass the laws that govern Canada. It meets on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on a bluff above the …
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ByWard Market
ByWard Market is a historic market district in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, and one of the oldest and largest public markets in Canada. Its blocks of produce stalls, food shops, cafés, pubs and restaurants sit in Lowertown,…
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Major's Hill Park
Major's Hill Park is a public park in downtown Ottawa, set on a bluff above the Ottawa River and the Rideau Canal, right beside Parliament Hill. It is often described as the city's oldest park, and it offers some of the …
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Famous Five Monument
The Famous Five Monument in Ottawa is a bronze sculpture honouring Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Henrietta Muir Edwards and Irene Parlby, five Alberta women who fought to have women recognised as persons…
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Centennial Flame
The Centennial Flame is a gas-fed flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, burning in a fountain at the front of the grounds on Wellington Street. It was lit to mark 100 years of Canadian Confederation in 1967, and it is stil…
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The Oz Escape in Ottawa
90 min · EN
Places on this quest: House of Commons of Canada · Famous Five Monument
Ottawa: In the Eyes of a Street Artist
67 min · EN · FR
Places on this quest: The Lion Dance mural · Black Lives Matter Mural
Murder Mystery: Death in the Shadows in ByWard Market, Ottawa
90 min · EN · DE · ES · FR · RO · IT
Places on this quest: National Gallery of Canada · ByWard Market
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