Secret Ottawa: The Unique Guidebook to Ottawa s Hidden Sites, Sounds, & Tastes - Softcover

Paquet, Laura Byrne

9781550224351: Secret Ottawa: The Unique Guidebook to Ottawa s Hidden Sites, Sounds, & Tastes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550224352 ISBN 13: 9781550224351

Publisher: ECW Press, 2000

Takes you behind the scenes of the official tourist sites Parliament Hill, the Rideau Canal, the National Gallery of Canada and into the places only locals know. From restaurants where Cabinet ministers do lunch to Canada’s only Cordon Bleu cooking school, from Elvis Lives Lane to a bog carpeted with Arctic wildflowers, and from outlet shops for lingerie to dim wine cellars awash in live jazz, this guidebook shows you how to dig under the government-approved surface to find the city other tourists and many residents miss.

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From the Publisher:

Think you know everything there is to know about the nation's capital? Think again.So you've seen the Peace Tower and the Sparks Street Mall. Think you know everything about the nation's capital? Think again. Secret Ottawa takes you behind the scenes of the official tourist sites - Parliament Hill, the Rideau Canal, the National Gallery of Canada - and into the places only locals know.Any guidebook will tell you about tours of the House of Commons: SecretT Ottawa points you to the restaurants where Cabinet ministers do lunch, and shows you the bunker where John Diefenbaker planned to hide from Cold War missiles.Any guidebook will point you to the National War Memorial: SecretT Ottawa takes you to Elvis Lives Lane, and the statue Mackenzie King put up to honour his dead roommate.Any guidebook will describe the city's historic sites: SecretT Ottawa invites you to visit Canada's only Cordon Bleu cooking school, a bog carpeted with Arctic wildflowers, and the stables where the horses of the Musical Ride learn their trade.Any guidebook will list the big chain bookstores: SecretT Ottawa shows you where to buy the cast-off tomes of the Rockcliffe elite, indulge in a poetry reading, or find landmarks brought to offbeat life by local fantasy author Charles de Lint.And any other guidebook will tell you Ottawa is a bureaucrat's town: Secret Ottawa uncovers the passionate heart beneath the pencil-pushing facade. You'll learn about outlet shops for lingerie and candles, dim wine cellars awash in live jazz, and the best park benches for moonlit romance.Secret Ottawa shows you how to dig under the government-approved surface to find the city other tourists - and many residents - miss.

From the Author:

LAURA BYRNE PAQUET has lived in Ottawa since 1983. Her articles have appeared in more than 40 publications, including Ottawa City Magazine, the Ottawa Citizen, the Globe and Mail, and National Geographic Traveler.

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