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city’s best-known shopping and restaurant
districts (www.byward-market.com/en/
home). It’s a stone’s throw from the CF
Rideau Centre, home to upscale retailers
such as Nordstrom, Michael Kors, and

Tiff any and Co. (www.cfshops.com/
rideau-centre.html).

Beyond downtown, vibrant neighbour-
hoods packed with independent restaurants
and boutiques include Wellington West,
Westboro and the Glebe. The latter is also
home to TD Place (www.tdplace.ca ), a recently
redeveloped site featuring everything from
shops, restaurants and cinemas to a lively
farmers’ market, the home stadium of both
the Canadian Football League’s Ottawa
REDBLACKS (www.ottawaredblacks.com )
WINTERLUDE • DESTINATION CANADA/CANADIAN HERITAGE and the professional Ottawa Fury FC soccer
team (www.ottawafuryfc.com ), and the
arena where the Ontario Hockey League’s
Ottawa 67’s (www.ottawa67s.com ) play.
Speaking of hockey, the National Hockey
League’s Ottawa Senators (www.nhl.com/
senators ) play their home games at the
Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata.

CULTURE AND HISTORY
Ottawa and its sister City of Gatineau, on
the opposite shore of the Ottawa River, are
home to numerous national museums and
historic sites. For art lovers, the Canadian

and Indigenous Galleries at the National
Gallery of Canada show how creators from
many artistic traditions have infl uenced
each other (www.gallery.ca). The gallery’s big
show this summer will be Gauguin: Portraits,
the world’s fi rst show devoted solely to the
French artist’s pictures of people.
The Canadian Museum of Nature (www.
nature.ca) is a magnet for animal lovers and
CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM • DESTINATION CANADA/CANADIAN MUSEUM OF HISTORY
families. One highlight is the Canada Goose
CANADIAN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM • DESTINATION CANADA
Arctic Gallery, where visitors can learn about
the ecology, geography and Indigenous
peoples of Canada’s polar regions through
multimedia installations, rare artefacts and
interactive games.
Canadian architect Douglas Cardinal
designed the sinuous curves of the Canadian

Museum of History (www.historymuseum.
ca ), on the shore of the Ottawa River. This

summer, in its exhibition Neanderthals, the
museum will highlight the history of some
of humankind’s closest forebears. The heart
of the museum is the Grand Hall, where
sunshine from six-storey windows
illuminates a permanent display of totem
poles and other artworks created by
Indigenous peoples of Canada’s West Coast.
History lovers should also leave time
for two other Ottawa sites. The Canadian