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ByWard Market

What is there

Worth seeing in and around ByWard Market

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Rideau Canal

    Canal between Ottawa and Kingston, Canada

    500 m · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    National Gallery of Canada

    Museum of art in Ottawa, Canada

    600 m · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    University of Ottawa

    Public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    900 m · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Library and Archives Canada

    National library and archives of Canada

    1.5 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Canadian Museum of History

    Museum in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    TD Place Stadium

    Outdoor stadium in Ottawa, Canada

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Canadian Museum of Nature

    Natural history museum in Ottawa, Canada

    1.6 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Parliament Hill

    Site of the Canadian Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    600 m · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Canadian War Museum

    National museum in Ontario, Canada

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    National War Memorial

    Canadian national war memorial in Ottawa

    400 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to ByWard Market

Airports
Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 12 km · Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 152 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 260 km
Stations
Ottawa station, 3.4 km · Ottawa Central Station, 2.1 km
  • Montréal → ByWard Market
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · C$24–32
  • Hamilton → ByWard Market
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Quebec → ByWard Market
    378 km · quickest by air, 6h 22m · C$140–220
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for ByWard Market

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for ByWard Market. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHowever, there is a tourist-oriented water taxi that runs between Ottawa and Hull for about $6 one way.

From Wikivoyage: Ottawa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    563 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    570 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    3,172 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,180 km
  5. 05
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    3,197 km

If you know how people move in ByWard Market – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to ByWard Market

ByWard Market is 2 km from Ottawa, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.