I haven’t been posting for a while. Things have been very busy here. On May 25th, my DH and I headed to Ottawa, Ontario, our nation’s capital. I had to attend 3 days of meetings in GatineAu, Quebec, just across the river from Ottawa. My husband and I decided to stay on in Ottawa after the meetings were over and have a little bit of a holiday. We had a great time exploring Ottawa and returned home on June 1.
These were the last of the tulips in Ottawa when we were there. The Canadian Tulip Festival was hosted by the city of Ottawa from May 1 to 18 so we just missed the height of the blooms. http://www.tulipfestival.ca/en/index.html
While I was attending meetings during the day, my DH was busy exploring the city. He visited the Canadian Museum of Nature. http://nature.ca/nature_e.cfm
The “castle” that houses the Canadian Museum of Nature was built in 1905. The building was intended to mirror the Centre Block of Canada’s Parliament Buildings.
These dinosaurs guard the entrance to the Talisman Fossil Gallery.
This Polar Bear is housed in the Mammal Gallery.
These two birds are located in the Bird Gallery.
This large turtle hangs in the Talisman Energey Fossil Gallery.
These were the last of the tulips in Ottawa when we were there. The Canadian Tulip Festival was hosted by the city of Ottawa from May 1 to 18 so we just missed the height of the blooms. http://www.tulipfestival.ca/en/index.html
While I was attending meetings during the day, my DH was busy exploring the city. He visited the Canadian Museum of Nature. http://nature.ca/nature_e.cfm
The “castle” that houses the Canadian Museum of Nature was built in 1905. The building was intended to mirror the Centre Block of Canada’s Parliament Buildings.
These dinosaurs guard the entrance to the Talisman Fossil Gallery.
This Polar Bear is housed in the Mammal Gallery.
These two birds are located in the Bird Gallery.
This large turtle hangs in the Talisman Energey Fossil Gallery.
Many houses were the home to small businessess like this dumpling shop.
Two more shots from Chinatown.
This is a photo of the Canadian War Museum. http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/home
The building expresses the message of the museum with small windows spaced high along the protruding copper fin that spell, “Lest we forget” in both English and French in Morse code.
The Canadian War Museum has the largest green roof–at 10,684 square metres, of its kind in North America. The roof is covered in the same tall-grass species that grow along the Ottawa River. The roof is actually a self-sustaining ecosystem that requires minimal maintenance. The plants help “clean” the air of smog and air pollution. The roof includes a 300 millimetre mix of soil and retention board that can hold up to 720,000 litres of storm water.
This photo has been reproduced life size within the museum. It was known as the shot seen around the world. This was the famous photograph shot by Claude Dettloff, a Province newspaper photographer in New Westminster during an October day in 1940. Jack Bernard was another soldier in a parade of enlisted men marching down Eighth Street and off to the Second World War. Just as the march crossed Columbia Street, Jack’s five-year-old son Warren bolted from the crowd waving farewell from the sidewalk. Warren’s mom, Bernice, reached out to grab him, just as his father reached back to touch him. Dettloff captured had only one shot left in his camera.When The photograph ran the next day, Oct. 2, 1940, on the front page of The Province. Then Life Magazine named the photograph its “photo of the week.” Soon other newspapers and magazines were featuring the photograph. By war’s end, it was the Canadian equivalent of the famous V-Day shot of a sailor kissing a nurse in New York’s Times Square.
Two more shots from Chinatown.
This is a photo of the Canadian War Museum. http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/home On Thursday nights admission to museums in Ottawa is free. Since the Canadian War Museum was within walking distance of our hotel, we visited there on Thursday night.
The building expresses the message of the museum with small windows spaced high along the protruding copper fin that spell, “Lest we forget” in both English and French in Morse code.
The Canadian War Museum has the largest green roof–at 10,684 square metres, of its kind in North America. The roof is covered in the same tall-grass species that grow along the Ottawa River. The roof is actually a self-sustaining ecosystem that requires minimal maintenance. The plants help “clean” the air of smog and air pollution. The roof includes a 300 millimetre mix of soil and retention board that can hold up to 720,000 litres of storm water.
This photo has been reproduced life size within the museum. It was known as the shot seen around the world. This was the famous photograph shot by Claude Dettloff, a Province newspaper photographer in New Westminster during an October day in 1940. Jack Bernard was another soldier in a parade of enlisted men marching down Eighth Street and off to the Second World War. Just as the march crossed Columbia Street, Jack’s five-year-old son Warren bolted from the crowd waving farewell from the sidewalk. Warren’s mom, Bernice, reached out to grab him, just as his father reached back to touch him. Dettloff captured had only one shot left in his camera.When The photograph ran the next day, Oct. 2, 1940, on the front page of The Province. Then Life Magazine named the photograph its “photo of the week.” Soon other newspapers and magazines were featuring the photograph. By war’s end, it was the Canadian equivalent of the famous V-Day shot of a sailor kissing a nurse in New York’s Times Square. The Canadian War Museum is Canada’s national museum of military history and focuses on military conflicts that occurred on Canadian soil, involved Canadian forces, or had a significant effect on the country and its people.
