Ottawa

   I left Sudbury on Tuesday morning and continued on Rt 17 East toward Ottawa, Canada's capital. The trip was a bit over 300 miles through Ontario Forrest for most of the drive. It started to rain shortly after I left and the rain followed me all day, getting me wet later in the evening at dinner.

   About one third of the way the road started to parallel the Ottawa River which begins somewhere in the many lakes of northern Ontario and Quebec. It becomes a major river long before it reaches Ottawa and eventually flows into the St Lawrence River creating the island at the city of Montreal. 

   In Ottawa the river is the border with Quebec and my hotel was on the French speaking side of the river. In Ottawa the streets are named Wellington, Albert and Queen. Across the bridge is Rue Champlain and Boul. Des Allumettiéres.

   I went to the excellent War Museum this morning. I learned some things I never heard before including the Finian Raids where Irish Americans from the US attacked Canada in the mid 1800's. There was also a note about a German landing in Labrador in WW2 where they set up a weather station to aid their U-boats. It was so remote that the Canadians didn't discover it until 1981.