Right after breakfast we left the hotel and drove North on highway 15.
Highway 15 wends itself leisurely along the Rideau Canal and on several occasions you may leave the highway and drive West for a few kilometers to one of the 49 locks which lift boats from Kingston, Ontario all the way up to Ottawa, the Nations capital.
The trip, over 202 km, takes about 4-5 days, along rivers, through picturesque lakes, out of one lock and then into another, until all 49 of them have lifted you up and away.
In the building process only very few workers lost their lives through work accidents, ( 7 in 1827 ) but over 1000 died of Malaria.
Should you be interested in more facts about this "Heritage Waterway", I can recommend that you Google:
www.rideau-info.com/canal/map-waterway.html
Ottawa has become a very nice, I would almost say 'beautiful' town of about 900,000 inhabitants with many interesting structures, art galleries, museums in both, Ottawa and across the river into Quebec, Hull.
You may wonder why I say that Ottawa has become a beautiful town:
When I lived there from May 1955 to April 1957 it was a "cow town". Although it was the capital, I was told that diplomatic Ambassadors feared an appointment to Ottawa, due to its dull, provincial nature.
Today it is a thriving, bustling, beautiful and interesting small Metropolis, the Capital City of a wonderful country.
That, in any event is the considered opinion of
Bertstravels.
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