About City

Ottawa is Canada’s capital, a dynamic showcase city of more than one million people. Located in Ontario at the Quebec border, it’s a place where you’ll hear English and French spoke in the streets; where you can discover Canada’s proud heritage at impressive national sites and famous landmarks, including the Rideau Canal (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). It’s a city steeped in culture, with world-class museums and galleries displaying stunning national collections and special exhibitions from Canada and around the world.

Ottawa is a destination alive with celebration, beginning each year with February’s Winterlude, continuing through May’s Canadian Tulip Festival, heating up July 1 with the biggest Canada Day celebration in the country, and going all-out with headliner summer music festivals.

This city is a uniquely beautiful place: an urban center on the edge of nature where you can enjoy the great outdoors — just outside your hotel room, and nearby in the surrounding countryside. There’s an easy cosmopolitan vibe here, and Ottawa is known for being both welcoming and walkable. Explore the distinctive local neighborhoods, including the historic ByWard Market: by day this area boasts a bustling farmers’ market and chic shops, by night it hums with activity at the restaurants, pubs, and nightclubs.

Ottawa has the most educated population among Canadian cities and is home to a number of post-secondary, research, and cultural institutions, Ottawa has the highest standard of living in the nation and low unemployment. It ranked 2nd nationally and 24th worldwide in the quality of life index and is consistently rated the best place to live in Canada.

This is also a city that enjoys the finer things in life, with a culinary community that’s earning wide acclaim, unique boutiques and shopping districts, a lively local music and art scene, and always exciting nightlife.

This is Ottawa, Canada’s capital. Come to experience it for yourself.

Attractions & Landmarks

• Parliament Hill.
• National Gallery of Canada.
• Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.
• Canada Science and Technology Museum.
• ByWard Market.
• Commissioners Park.
• Petrie Island.
• Canadian Museum of Nature.
• Famous Five Monument.
• Fletcher Wild life Garden.
• Little Ray.
• Dows Lake Pavilion.
• Pirate Adventures of Ottawa.
• Winter Lude.
• Science & Technology Museum.