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Ottawa’s hidden treasures

Rent a bike in downtown Ottawa

9 June 2009 Life in Ottawa

This is wicked cool! Starting this week, the city of Ottawa is running a pilot project where you can rent a bike from one of four downtown bike stands. Check out the Bixi website for details – and don’t forget to bring your own helmet!

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Two waterparks for Ottawa

27 May 2009 Ottawa Family Fun

I get a tonne of traffic googling Ottawa’s new water park. Next summer promises to be a wet one as there are not one but TWO water parks opening in the capital. In the east end, there’s Calypso, which promises to be Canada’s largest water park — cool! And in the west end near Barrhaven, [...]

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Fun at the Gloucester Fair

24 May 2009 Ah, me boys

I love the fair. I’ve been going to the fair, whether London’s Western Fair or Ottawa’s SuperEx, for as long as I can remember. I love the fair so much that I even love those little mini-fairs they set up in the parking lot of the strip mall, with half a dozen rides and a [...]

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Save the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography building from the bureaucrats!

2 May 2009 Ottawa's hidden treasures

(cut and pasted with vigour from the Save the CMCP Web site!) The Government has announced that the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) building at 1 Rideau Canal in Ottawa will be taken over by Parliament for office space and meeting rooms. The CMCP is the only museum in Canada devoted to the photographic [...]

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An ode to the Ottawa Public Library

28 April 2009 Life in Ottawa

It was a rainy Saturday morning, and we were on the way to the library. “I think the new door is finally ready,” I told the boys. “Wow!” replied Simon. “This is the BEST day of my LIFE!” (I don’t know where they get their tendencies to hyperbolize. Ahem.) The new door is a construction [...]

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Sugar, sugar (maple, maple!)

9 March 2009 Life in Ottawa

Hey Ottawa peeps – got a question for you! Now that the snow is melting and the sun is bright, the sap is running and it’s maple syrup season again. Hooray for spring!! My brother and his family are coming up to visit for the March Break, and I thought it would be fun to [...]

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Fall Family Fun part three: Saunders Farm

19 October 2008 Life in Ottawa

Today’s post is the third in a series of suggestions for fall family fun in and around Ottawa. On Thanksgiving Monday, friends of ours who also have three boys invited us out to join them at Saunders Farm in Munster, about 20 minutes west of Barrhaven. I’d never been, and had been waffling between bringing [...]

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Fall Family Fun Part 2: Hog’s Back Falls

16 October 2008 Life in Ottawa

I’ve posted several times before about Hog’s Back Falls, truly one of Ottawa’s hidden treasures. It’s one of my very favourite places in the city, especially in the fall. The paths are broad and easily accessible by stroller, but there are paths and steps to be scaled and stone walls to scamper across: plenty of [...]

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Fall Family Fun Part 1: Parc Omega

15 October 2008 Life in Ottawa

It’s been a beautiful autumn so far, and we’ve been out and about enjoying it. If you’re looking to get out and admire the fall colours, this trio of posts might give you some ideas for family outings both expensive (but worth it!) and free, all part of my ongoing exploration of Ottawa’s Hidden Treasures. [...]

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The traditions of fall: Apple-picking

20 September 2008 Life in Ottawa

This year, I’m guessing that even though we picked more apples than ever before (see previous years here and here) we might actually eat all the apples we picked! (It’s funny to look back to the old post from 2005 and see a Simon who’s barely out of babyhood on our first apple-picking expedition. Blog [...]

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