Road Photos 2023 C

On the road again . . . up the two-lane roads through the Adirondacks and then across the Saint Lawrence at Ogdensburg was our path to Ottawa, actually Gatineau.  That photo is looking across the Ottawa River toward the Rideau Canal flight and then, under all those cranes, the Canadian Parliament to the right.

The Ottawa was once known as the Kitchissippi, now the namesake of a beer.

To the left of the photo above Russel Brothers tug Missinaibi is memorialized.  It was also memorialized–as were other boats–on the Canadian $1 bill.

Here’s a stern view.

Outside the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, there’s this intriguing copper and bronze sculpture called namaxsala.  Info and translation can be found here.  I can’t recommend that museum highly enough.

You can read this.

We took the road–cheating, I know but this post is called road photos, not river photos–to Mattawa, the crossroads, where a canoe was built last year, a symbolic yet traditional canoe.  Here’s an interview with the canoe builder.

A lot of folks whose names you’ve heard have passed through here.

Behold Lake Nipissing!  Great photos of the French River to the west can be seen here.

You can read this.

And this.

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All photos, WVD.