Lower Town

Worth seeing in and around Lower Town

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

   The Rideau Canal is a 202-kilometre long canal that links the Ottawa River at Ottawa with the Cataraqui River and Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Its 46 locks raise boats from the Ottawa River 83 metres upstream along the Rideau River to the Rideau Lakes, and from there drop 50 metres downstream along the Cataraqui River to Kingston.

   900 m · canal between Ottawa and Kingston, Canada · Wikipedia
2. 02
   National Gallery of Canada

   The National Gallery of Canada, located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum. The museum's building takes up 46,621 square metres, with 12,400 square metres of space used for exhibiting art.

   700 m · museum of art in Ottawa, Canada · Wikipedia
3. 03
   University of Ottawa

   The University of Ottawa, often referred to as uOttawa, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, the capital city of Canada. The main campus is located on 42.5 hectares directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottawa across the Rideau Canal in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood.

   1.4 km · public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Library and Archives Canada

   Library and Archives Canada is the federal institution tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada. The national archive and library is the 16th largest library in the world.

   2 km · national library and archives of Canada · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Canadian Museum of History

   The Canadian Museum of History is a national museum on anthropology, Canadian history, cultural studies, and ethnology in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. The purpose of the museum is to promote the heritage of Canada, as well as support related research.

   1.4 km · museum in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
6. 06
   TD Place Stadium

   TD Place Stadium is an outdoor stadium in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located at Lansdowne Park, on the southern edge of The Glebe neighbourhood, where Bank Street crosses the Rideau Canal.

   4 km · outdoor stadium in Ottawa, Canada · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Parliament Hill

   Parliament Hill is an area of Crown land on the southern bank of the Ottawa River that houses the Parliament of Canada in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. It accommodates a suite of Gothic revival buildings whose architectural elements were chosen to evoke the history of parliamentary democracy.

   1.1 km · site of the Canadian Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Canadian Museum of Nature

   The Canadian Museum of Nature is a national natural history museum based in Canada's National Capital Region. The museum's exhibitions and public programs are housed in the Victoria Memorial Museum Building, a 18,910-square-metre structure in Ottawa, Ontario.

   2.3 km · natural history museum in Ottawa, Canada · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Canadian War Museum

   The Canadian War Museum is a national museum on the country's military history in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The museum serves as both an educational facility on Canadian military history and a place of remembrance.

   2.7 km · national museum in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
10. 10
    National War Memorial

    The National War Memorial, titled The Response, is a tall, granite memorial arch with accreted bronze sculptures in Ottawa, Ontario, designed by Vernon March and first dedicated by King George VI in 1939. Originally built to commemorate the Canadians who died in the First World War, it was in 1982 rededicated to also include those killed in the Second World War and Korean War and again in 2014 to add the dead from the Second Boer War and War in Afghanistan, as well as all Canadians killed in all conflicts past and future.

    1.1 km · Canadian national war memorial in Ottawa · 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.

Getting to Lower Town

Airports

Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 12 km · Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 152 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 260 km

Stations

Ottawa station, 3.6 km · Ottawa Central Station, 2.8 km

• Montréal → Lower Town

  6905 km · quickest by air, 15h 50m · C$2,020–3,140
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• Hamilton → Lower Town

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• Quebec → Lower Town

  6672 km · quickest by air, 15h 32m · C$1,980–3,080
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No local-transport research exists yet for Lower Town

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 Lower Town. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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