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Rideau Canal Cruise

Ottawa Queen
aboard the Ottawa Queen, Miss SBJ II & Lady By

Description:

  • Items of interest include
    National Arts Centre • University of Ottawa • Landsdowne Park • Carleton University • Experimental Farm • Dow’s Lake • and much more.
  • All Cruises include a bilingual and live commentary.
  • The duration of the cruise is one and one quarter hours.
  • Our three canal boats were built specifically for this tour. From our boats you will enjoy the best view possible of one of the engineering marvels of the nineteenth century, the Rideau Canal. Our guides will show you this major part of Canadian history as no one else is able to. Along the way you will be shown many of the major sites that have led to the development and rise of Ottawa as a city and a seat of government.
  • We operate from May to October.

Schedule and Location:
Boats leave daily from the Rideau Canal Dock, located behind the National Conference Centre, five minutes from Parliament Hill and directly across the street from the Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel.

Boat leaves daily at:
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.* - 8:30 p.m.*

* The evening tours operate from June 22 till September 3.