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Secret Ottawa

The Unique Guidebook to Ottawa's Hidden Sites, Sounds, & Tastes

by (author) Laura Byrne Paquet

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2000
Category
Ontario
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550224351
    Publish Date
    Oct 2000
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

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.

About the author

Laura Byrne Paquet is the author of The Urge to Splurge: A Social History of Shopping. Her articles have appeared in more than 70 publications in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including National Geographic, Traveler, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, enRoute, Chatelaine, Canadian Living, and The Ottawa Citizen. Between her globe-trotting adventures, she finds time to write romance novels from her Ottawa home.

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