Museums!
Ottawa has some magnificent buildings - some like Parliament with its copper roof
but also many new, not too tall bildings of interesting glass and steel construction e.g the National Art Gallery. Particualrly liked the exhibitions of Inuit art, early colonial paintings, and work by the Group of Seven. We could have done with much more time in The Museum of Civilisation (another magnificent building) - excellent recreation of colonial Canadian development to 1970s + even better installations and displays of aboriginal culture.
In evening Barbara managed to get us tickets to the Diefenbunker a decomissioned Cold War bunker (built to house the PM and top govt officials) that has been made into a museum by the locals in Carp. A chilling reminder of a period of history that could so easily be repeated.
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