Vanier

Worth seeing in and around Vanier

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.

   3 km · 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.

   2.9 km · 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.

   2.4 km · public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   3.6 km · museum in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
5. 05
   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.

   3.2 km · site of the Canadian Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
6. 06
   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.

   3.5 km · natural history museum in Ottawa, Canada · Wikipedia
7. 07
   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.

   3 km · Canadian national war memorial in Ottawa · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Rideau Hall

   Rideau Hall is the official residence of the governor general of Canada, the representative of the monarch of Canada. Located in Ottawa, the capital of the country, on a 36-hectare estate at 1 Sussex Drive, the main building consists of approximately 175 rooms across 9,500 square metres, and 27 outbuildings around the grounds.

   1.7 km · (officially Governor House) is the official residence of the Canadian monarch · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica

   The Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica is a Roman Catholic minor basilica in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada located on 385 Sussex Drive in the Lower Town neighbourhood. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1990.

   2.7 km · church in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Château Laurier

    The Fairmont Château Laurier is a 660,000-square-foot hotel with 429 guest rooms in the downtown core of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Located near the intersection of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive, it is designed in a French Gothic Revival Châteauesque style to complement the adjacent Parliament buildings.

    2.8 km · building in Ottawa, Canada · 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 Vanier

Airports

Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 13 km · Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 150 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 261 km

Stations

Ottawa station, 2.8 km · Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport, 2.7 km · Tremblay station, 2.7 km

• Montréal → Vanier

  162 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · C$24–32
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• Hamilton → Vanier

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• Quebec → Vanier

  375 km · quickest by air, 6h 25m · C$150–230
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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 Vanier. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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