Ottawa

Canada Day with Glen and Carol

Crowd downtown for Canada Day Celebrations

Parliament Buildings

Ottawa River Valley

William McKenzie Kings summer house

Supreme Court of Canada

Ottawa canal with locks

We have celebrated Canada Day in Ottawa. William and Kate were here waiting for us. We are staying at my cousin Carols but Will and Kate are staying elsewhere. We went downtown for the celebrations along with 300,000 other people. What a party! Ottawa certainly knows how to celebrate July 1^st. Fireworks were great. Weather is very hot here. It is about 29C and only goes down to about 20C at night. Seems that is the way it is almost everywhere we go. Hope it continues as we head west as Manitoba is flooded. We also visited William McKenzie King’s summer retreat. He was a rather strange one. He built ruins on his property and held séances. But it was special to go where he once lived. We had a nice drive with Carol and Glen and drove up to a spot where we could see the Ottawa valley. Today we went back downtown and had a tour of the Supreme Court and the Parliament Buildings. It was very interesting. Also they have a lock system for the Ottawa river. Ed was especially interested in that. He enjoyed watching the boats go down the locks. It has been a very enjoyable visit here and we are so glad we came to Canada’s capital city.