The capitol of Canada is Ottawa which is on the river and on the border between Ontario and Québec as Provinces and is part of Ontario, with the city being one of the most beautiful capitol cities of all the Americas.
Areal view of the city
The city was founded in 1826 as Bytown and it was a logging community on the Rideau Canal which connected the area with Kingston on Lake Ontario, with the area changing in its existence when in 1857 Queen Victoria chose the location of what is now Ottawa as the capitol of The United Province of Canada. This area was total wilderness, and as it was planned from the moment that it became a capitol Ottawa became the only such city to be developed in wilderness within the Americas to be a nation's capitol alongside Washington D.C and Austin Texas as well as Brasilia and Belmonpan Belize. The Parliament Buildings were built from 1857 to 1866, and in 1867 the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada as a Confederation was to prepare to move into these buildings. Sir John A. MacDonald was born in Scotland and came to North America, with him becoming the first Prime Minister to serve a British Monarch over the Dominion that was founded in her name as she was Victoria.
The city when it was first named as a capitol
Parliament and the river
The Parliament Buildings are on what is called Parliament Hill which overlooks the Ottawa River, which in French is by the name of Les Outaouais who were the Algonquin First Nation Band that lived on the river. The buildings are of Gothic Revival designs with elegant towers and the tallest is the Memorial Tower, which honors those who died on the Plains of Flanders and the in the Forests of The Ardennes as well as the hills of Verdun and Château-Thierry in France including the areas around Lille France during The War to End All Wars. Bells ring in that Tower and especially on Remembrance Day when those dead are honored as well as the dead from The Second World War and The Korean War, with the Tower overlooking the beautiful front lawn of the buildings which are also a parade grounds. These amazing buildings have great Halls and balconies on those upper sections of the buildings, with inside Arcades of Gothic settings being known all over these palatial structures.
The Royal Guards of Red Coats and Blue Pants as well as Black Shoes and Hats made of Black feathers parade a changing of the guard in front of the Parliament, with this being the Royal Guard's Tattoo which is the same one that occurs in front of Buckingham Palace in Westminster Greater London over in Great Britain.
The Gothic masterpiece of the Diamond shaped Library of Parliament overlooks the river from the buildings with that structure being attached to the buildings but it is actually separate, and the huge stacks of books and microfilm as well as now a days hard drives dominates the Library as if it was a setting of second wall inside the chamber.
The Chamber of the House of Commons is a beautiful Gothic masterpiece with the Speakers Chair being in the center of the rear section of the chamber and the chairs of the Representatives of the majority and those Lawyers for this Chamber's opposition are divided by the length of two swards, when a beautiful Arched doorway is this Chamber's entrance with a huge wooden door. Canada's Senate Chamber is also a Gothic masterpiece but smaller and of Red rugs and chairs, in which the Throne for the Governor General is in the middle of the rear of the Chamber as it is in the House of Lords. The Throne has Marble bricks behind the Throne, and a Marble statue of Victoria on top with that being where he or she who is the Governor General opens Parliament. Like it is within the House of Commons Senators are divided in between the majority and the opposition {although anointed until age 75} by the length of two swards, and on that Throne the Sovereign would sit if he or she was to ever visit.
George the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth Bowles Lyon were the first to ever make the visit back in 1939 just before war broke out, of which yes he who was named Albert at birth and Bertie by his family stuttered as he addressed the Parliament but with she who would after he sadly died in 1952 be forever known as "The Queen Mum" right beside him. Elizabeth the 2nd has made the trip more than once, and it was in front of the Parliament on a rainy day that she and then Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau signed the Constitution and the date was April the 17th of 1982.
It is to mention that above both walls of the House of Commons one sees beautiful Stained Glass Windows when Stained Glass Windows are also above the walls of the Senate, while in dealing with the Senate Paintings are on the walls when both chambers have wooden panels on the walls. The roof of the Senate has octagon shaped settings with Coats of Arms which are those of the Provinces and Territories while the roof of the House of Commons is of beautiful Tiles, and both have Chandeliers dangling from their roofs but the Senate's roof is of Gold Leaf on solid wood.
The Canadian Flag has stood on either side of the Speaker's Chair and The Throne since it was introduced and accepted by all voters in 1965, and it also stands at either side of the doorways of the House of Commons and The Senate let alone it being in front of the Parliament Buildings and on top of the Memorial Tower.
The Royal Guards of Red Coats and Blue Pants as well as Black Shoes and Hats made of Black feathers parade a changing of the guard in front of the Parliament, with this being the Royal Guard's Tattoo which is the same one that occurs in front of Buckingham Palace in Westminster Greater London over in Great Britain.
The Gothic masterpiece of the Diamond shaped Library of Parliament overlooks the river from the buildings with that structure being attached to the buildings but it is actually separate, and the huge stacks of books and microfilm as well as now a days hard drives dominates the Library as if it was a setting of second wall inside the chamber.
The Chamber of the House of Commons is a beautiful Gothic masterpiece with the Speakers Chair being in the center of the rear section of the chamber and the chairs of the Representatives of the majority and those Lawyers for this Chamber's opposition are divided by the length of two swards, when a beautiful Arched doorway is this Chamber's entrance with a huge wooden door. Canada's Senate Chamber is also a Gothic masterpiece but smaller and of Red rugs and chairs, in which the Throne for the Governor General is in the middle of the rear of the Chamber as it is in the House of Lords. The Throne has Marble bricks behind the Throne, and a Marble statue of Victoria on top with that being where he or she who is the Governor General opens Parliament. Like it is within the House of Commons Senators are divided in between the majority and the opposition {although anointed until age 75} by the length of two swards, and on that Throne the Sovereign would sit if he or she was to ever visit.
George the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth Bowles Lyon were the first to ever make the visit back in 1939 just before war broke out, of which yes he who was named Albert at birth and Bertie by his family stuttered as he addressed the Parliament but with she who would after he sadly died in 1952 be forever known as "The Queen Mum" right beside him. Elizabeth the 2nd has made the trip more than once, and it was in front of the Parliament on a rainy day that she and then Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau signed the Constitution and the date was April the 17th of 1982.
It is to mention that above both walls of the House of Commons one sees beautiful Stained Glass Windows when Stained Glass Windows are also above the walls of the Senate, while in dealing with the Senate Paintings are on the walls when both chambers have wooden panels on the walls. The roof of the Senate has octagon shaped settings with Coats of Arms which are those of the Provinces and Territories while the roof of the House of Commons is of beautiful Tiles, and both have Chandeliers dangling from their roofs but the Senate's roof is of Gold Leaf on solid wood.
The Canadian Flag has stood on either side of the Speaker's Chair and The Throne since it was introduced and accepted by all voters in 1965, and it also stands at either side of the doorways of the House of Commons and The Senate let alone it being in front of the Parliament Buildings and on top of the Memorial Tower.
Parliament Hill
The House of Commons and the main doorway
The Senate and The Throne {which is waiting patently for for William and Kate}
The Library
Parliament Hill has on either side of the Parliament Buildings the East Block and the Langevin Block, in which one is where the members of Parliament have some of their offices when the other is where the Prime Minister has his or hers offices as well as those high ranking members of the Cabinet of Ministers or Council of Government {Conseil du Gouvernment}. The East Block is of Gothic Revival designs and it has a beautiful Bell Tower on its end and a smaller tower on the opposite side, when The Langevin Block is of Victorian designs and elegantly arcaded windows and doorways.
The East Block and The Langevin Block
The home of the Supreme Court is of Gothic designs but it is modern and with a huge Glass setting of windows with a Steel Roof and it was built with a Marble setting of walls, with the structure literally mirroring those designs that are of The Parliament Buildings and both The East Block and The Langevin Block.
The Supreme Court Building
Right in front of those Parliament Buildings is Canada's Tomb of The Unknowns, where an unnamed body from Canada's action in Europe during The War to End All Wars and The Second World War's Pacific and European Theatres as well as North African Theatre including Canada's actions in The Korean War are entombed. Those who served in The First Gulf War and The Afghanistan War as well as those who served in Ruanda and The Congo as well as Haiti or anywhere else for The U.N. are honored at the Memorial, with the dates of 1914 to 1919 being chiseled in the main pedestal of the Memorial Arch. That is for this Monument was built because of those who died on the Plains of Flanders Fields and in the Forests of The Ardennes and Verdun as well as Château-Thierry, let alone the areas around Lille. Those who died in the area of Brouxelles were also honored, including those who died in Luxemburg as well as Northern Italy in the Alps as mentioned in A Farwell To Arms by Hemmingway. Canadians did fight in Palestine and Turkey, when there were also those who fought in the RAF over the Somme River in France and over Germany during the War to End All Wars.
1939 to 1945 is also chiseled on the pedestal when 1950 to 1954 is also chiseled on the pedestal as those were the passing of both The Second World War and The Korean War, and Angels honoring peace made of Bronze are on top of the Arch when Soldiers of The War to End All Wars are also in Bronze within the Arch. The Eternal Flame is in front of the Arch, in which a Changing of the Guard Tattoo occurs in front of the Memorial.
1939 to 1945 is also chiseled on the pedestal when 1950 to 1954 is also chiseled on the pedestal as those were the passing of both The Second World War and The Korean War, and Angels honoring peace made of Bronze are on top of the Arch when Soldiers of The War to End All Wars are also in Bronze within the Arch. The Eternal Flame is in front of the Arch, in which a Changing of the Guard Tattoo occurs in front of the Memorial.
The War Memorial
The Governor General lives in a Palace called Rideau Hall, with a Tattoo Changing of The Guard occurring in front of the main Gateway of the Palace and it is of Neo Roman and Palladian designs alongside it having an Octagon Shaped structure that is scene from the main Gate. The Palace has a setting of Edwardian settings besides Victorian settings, and a beautiful Garden is behind the structure when a beautiful lawn with elegant Trees being in front alongside a setting of fountains which includes that which is the Fountain of Hope which was designed upon the anniversary of the end of The Second World War. Beautiful Lampposts are alongside the front lawn, when the twin Guard Houses at the front Gate are made of Blue color painted Wood and with beautiful Granite Pillars behind them with elegant Lampposts standing on top of the Pillars. Located on the grounds one finds a sculpture that is First Nation and it is made out of slabs of rock in the shape of a Man, and it is called an Inukshuk with one being in front of most Parliament Buildings or residences of a Lieutenant Governor in various Provinces when it was also used on the front cover of Rush's 1996 album of Test for Echo.
The Ballroom and The Tent Room are two great chambers in the Palace, with The Ballroom being of beautiful settings that are reminiscent of Ballrooms in various Palaces of Europe, with the walls being of powder blue with marbleized plasters and cream trim alongside shades of peach and old gold on the ceiling all with gilt. The impressive Tent Room is a chamber of a roof of draped fabric, in which a wall covering of vertically sriped red and gold fabric with a padded backing rises to meet the same fabric hung in a swag fashion outwards from a single coffer in the centre of the ceiling. This is elegantly trimmed around the perimeter of the room, with a scallop edged valence of simple passementerie and tassels. In The Tent Room one sees paintings of Queen Victoria as a young woman and Queen Elizabeth the 2nd as an elder woman, when Paintings of Governor Generals are also in the room.
The Ballroom and The Tent Room are two great chambers in the Palace, with The Ballroom being of beautiful settings that are reminiscent of Ballrooms in various Palaces of Europe, with the walls being of powder blue with marbleized plasters and cream trim alongside shades of peach and old gold on the ceiling all with gilt. The impressive Tent Room is a chamber of a roof of draped fabric, in which a wall covering of vertically sriped red and gold fabric with a padded backing rises to meet the same fabric hung in a swag fashion outwards from a single coffer in the centre of the ceiling. This is elegantly trimmed around the perimeter of the room, with a scallop edged valence of simple passementerie and tassels. In The Tent Room one sees paintings of Queen Victoria as a young woman and Queen Elizabeth the 2nd as an elder woman, when Paintings of Governor Generals are also in the room.
Rideau Hall's main facade
The Main Gate and the Tattoo Changing of the Guard
The Rear Garden
The Ballroom and The Tent Room
Painting of a young Queen Victoria and a Painting of an elder Queen Elizabeth the 2nd
The Inukshuk at Rideau Hall in Winter and The Fountain of Hope
The current Governor General is Julie Payette who was an Astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency or CSA, with her being such a Champion for so many that she also helped carry the Olympic Flag into the Sports Center in Vancouver British Columbia during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. This beautiful blonde and curly haired woman Captain Kirk was born in Montréal in 1963 just as Star Trek came to be , and she was obviously influenced by Star Trek if not Star Wars and 2001 A Space Odyssey as well as the Soviet Film masterpiece of Solaris.
She took the office in 2017 on October the 2nd and she is the fourth woman Governor General of Canada with the others being Haitian born Michaëlle Jean and Asian-Canadian Adrienne Clarkson, in which the first ever woman Governor General of Canada was Jeanne Sauve who was born in Saskatchewan to Fransaskois parents. Sauve was present at the Opening Ceremony of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, when Jean was present at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Sauve was in office from 1984 to 1990 when Clarkson was in office from 1999 to 2005, while Jean was in office from 2005 to 2010 of which she left the office just 9 months after she was at the Opening Ceremony in Vancouver but continued to inspire so many Haitian immigrants to Canada in the years since.
She took the office in 2017 on October the 2nd and she is the fourth woman Governor General of Canada with the others being Haitian born Michaëlle Jean and Asian-Canadian Adrienne Clarkson, in which the first ever woman Governor General of Canada was Jeanne Sauve who was born in Saskatchewan to Fransaskois parents. Sauve was present at the Opening Ceremony of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, when Jean was present at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Sauve was in office from 1984 to 1990 when Clarkson was in office from 1999 to 2005, while Jean was in office from 2005 to 2010 of which she left the office just 9 months after she was at the Opening Ceremony in Vancouver but continued to inspire so many Haitian immigrants to Canada in the years since.
Payette as an Astronaut and on the Throne in The Senate
Jean on The Throne in The Senate
The ever beautiful and amazing Jeanne Sauve
The Prime Minister lives in a beautiful Mansion of Victorian designs made of Stone, with the Prime Minister having no personal bodyguards and when that individual visits The United States or other nations where security is important any Chief of State who has no bodyguard need to be protected and on Tax Payers Expense making it a problem.
The Prime Minister's Residence
The city of Ottawa is home to great Museums and one is the ultra Modern and almost all Glass and Steel made National Gallery, with it having a Tower of Trapezoid shapes on its roof while it is across the river from Parliament Hill but in Hull. The Canadian Museum of History or Musée canadien de l’histoire {CMH} was designed in a setting of curves overlooking the river in each building from within Hull, with one honoring The Canadian Shield and another resembling a Turtle's Head which is a First Nation symbol of Mother Earth where as for the third building it resembles a melting Glacier. Both the National Gallery and the Canadian Museum of History were originally in old buildings of Victorian designs, but they outgrew those buildings and needed new ones.
The National Gallery
Inside The National Gallery
The Canadian Museum of History
The city is home to the amazing Rideau Falls which are on the river where the Rideau River flows into the Ottawa River, of which the falls have a rock in between the two sections of the falls in which the old Town Hall of Ottawa is still on that Rock and it now houses Foreign Affairs employees. This is a very ultra modern building and it was named in honor of former Prime Minister John A Diefenbaker who was in office from 1957 to 1963 and was the last Tory {Conservative} to be Prime Minister of Canada from the elections of 1963 to the elections of 1979 although that Tory Government only had life for less than a year. Diefenbaker died a year before those elections and it was not until Brian Mulroney brought the Tories to power in 1984 that a Tory victory was possible, but such a victory was possible in 1984 due to Pierre Elliott Trudeau retiring early that year and his successor John Turner being a weak leader in the short months he was in office.
The city is governed by a Mayor and a City Council who are all elected and the city has a setting of Wards as it is with every other city in Ontario, and the Wards are represented by Aldermen who are commonly called Councillors and each Ward has a Councillor.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau once he became Prime Minister in 1968 pushed for the creation of Canada having two Official Languages for its Federal System which are English and French, and as Ottawa is the Federal Capitol {but without a Federal District being where it is} both French and English are official. The Bilingual Language Parliamentary Act of 1969 came to be because of those actions with him also leading Canada through the Terrorist Crisis of The October Crisis of 1970, when French Canadian Marxist radicals tried to begin an IRA like conflict in Québec as a Province. His defeat of that brief crisis made him a hero for those who oppose and hate Terrorism as well as Marxism Leninism, although he opened relations with Mao's China and became very friendly with Cuba's Fidel Castro against U.S. wishes.
Trudeau opened relations with Mao's China in 1970 and visited Peking thus closing relations with Taiwan and Chiang Kai-Chek, with him also causing problems with the U.S over his welcoming Draft Dodgers with asylum. By 1972 no visit between Trudeau and U.S President Richard M. Nixon occurred, but in 1972 Nixon came to Ottawa and not long after Trudeau came to Washington D.C. in order to speak in front of The U.S Congress and also meet again with Nixon. That was when the pullout of South Vietnam was being negotiated by Henry Kissinger in Paris besides the negotiations with Mao's China and the building of détente with The U.S.S.R, with relations being bettered between both nations by 1974.
In 1982 after winning reelection in 1980 after a brief almost one year that he was out of office because of his defeat in 1979, Trudeau worked with the very man who he defeated in 1980 who was Tory leader Joe Clark {who succeeded Diefenbaker after he died} to work on the creation of The Canadian Constitution which as already mentioned was signed by him and the Queen of Canada on April the 17th of 1982.
When he died all Canada mourned him either Tory or Liberal as Trudeau was leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, with all his native Province also mourning him either in favor of Succession or staying in Canada for Montréal was his home city and Québec was his home Province. In 2015 Justin Trudeau was elected Canada's youngest Prime Minister since 1979 and he gave the eulogy to his father at his funeral in which Justin Trudeau's mother was Margaret Trudeau and he was born in Ottawa when his father was in office. Sadly, his leadership has not been that of his father with his popularity failing and Justin Trudeau's future as Prime Minister is now in serious jeopardy.
The city is governed by a Mayor and a City Council who are all elected and the city has a setting of Wards as it is with every other city in Ontario, and the Wards are represented by Aldermen who are commonly called Councillors and each Ward has a Councillor.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau once he became Prime Minister in 1968 pushed for the creation of Canada having two Official Languages for its Federal System which are English and French, and as Ottawa is the Federal Capitol {but without a Federal District being where it is} both French and English are official. The Bilingual Language Parliamentary Act of 1969 came to be because of those actions with him also leading Canada through the Terrorist Crisis of The October Crisis of 1970, when French Canadian Marxist radicals tried to begin an IRA like conflict in Québec as a Province. His defeat of that brief crisis made him a hero for those who oppose and hate Terrorism as well as Marxism Leninism, although he opened relations with Mao's China and became very friendly with Cuba's Fidel Castro against U.S. wishes.
Trudeau opened relations with Mao's China in 1970 and visited Peking thus closing relations with Taiwan and Chiang Kai-Chek, with him also causing problems with the U.S over his welcoming Draft Dodgers with asylum. By 1972 no visit between Trudeau and U.S President Richard M. Nixon occurred, but in 1972 Nixon came to Ottawa and not long after Trudeau came to Washington D.C. in order to speak in front of The U.S Congress and also meet again with Nixon. That was when the pullout of South Vietnam was being negotiated by Henry Kissinger in Paris besides the negotiations with Mao's China and the building of détente with The U.S.S.R, with relations being bettered between both nations by 1974.
In 1982 after winning reelection in 1980 after a brief almost one year that he was out of office because of his defeat in 1979, Trudeau worked with the very man who he defeated in 1980 who was Tory leader Joe Clark {who succeeded Diefenbaker after he died} to work on the creation of The Canadian Constitution which as already mentioned was signed by him and the Queen of Canada on April the 17th of 1982.
When he died all Canada mourned him either Tory or Liberal as Trudeau was leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, with all his native Province also mourning him either in favor of Succession or staying in Canada for Montréal was his home city and Québec was his home Province. In 2015 Justin Trudeau was elected Canada's youngest Prime Minister since 1979 and he gave the eulogy to his father at his funeral in which Justin Trudeau's mother was Margaret Trudeau and he was born in Ottawa when his father was in office. Sadly, his leadership has not been that of his father with his popularity failing and Justin Trudeau's future as Prime Minister is now in serious jeopardy.
The Falls and the Diefenbaker Building
Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Prime Minister from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984
Justin Trudeau. Only son of a Canadian Prime Minister to become Prime Minister and to had been born when his father or mother was in office
Ottawa is served by a Police Force that serves the Council Regional Municipality of Ottawa which is the Canadian Capitol Region although it is not a Federal District like it is with The District of Columbia and the Brasileiro Distrito Federal as well as La Ciudad de México {although like The District of Columbia that great city is a self governing entity as if it was a State or Province.} The city of Ottawa is also served by what is the Ontario Provincial Police or OPP and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or "Mounties", as it is the Capitol City and Seat of Government.
"The Mounties
The city has industries besides the Federal Government and Parliament for the city is home to The University of Ottawa and The Kanata Research Park which is ultra modern in its buildings and it is home to High Tech Industries, with the University having beautiful Neo Roman and Post Renaissance as well as Gothic Revival Buildings. Ottawa has many first class Hospitals and Medical Centers, but the overall Free Health Care System of Canada is very troubled because of miss management and overwork including the same ills that occur in Great Britain due to the rationing of medicines and the so called "Death Panels."
The University
The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario or CHEO
The Kanata Research Park or KRP
The city is next to Hull which is in Québec Province and that community is home to the Casino making the whole area very popular with weekend visitors, with the city being served by an International Airport and the Transcontinental as well as Canadian National Railroads including a first class Bus System and what is The OTrain which is a Trolley System for this amazing Capitol City.
The OTrain
The Casino in Hull
The city has a Thoroughbred Racetrack called The Rideau Carleton Raceway which is in the southern part of the city, when a famous Hotel of French Château designs is in the city overlooking what is the Rideau Canal which was named in honor of Sir Wilfred Laurier.
The Racetrack
The Château Laurier
Ottawa is home to an Outdoor Stadium called The TD Place Stadium which is home to the CFL Ottawa Redblacks and the USL Ottawa Fury FC, with the Stadium facing the Rideau Canal in a very elegant setting.
The TD Place Stadium
The Rideau Canal is the great Canal that still serves the city in connecting Ottawa with Kingston, and the Locks of the Canal in the city are probably the oldest existing of anything in Ottawa as a city for the Canal began the city as Bytown. The Canal has barges that go up and down it beneath bridges that connect one side with another, and in winter the Canal is popular with amateur Hockey players and amateur Speed Skaters reminding so many that Canada is home to great Speed Skaters.
The Locks on the Canal and the Canal
The Canal in Winter
The Royal Capitol and National Capitol of Canada has a huge population of Chinese besides Japanese and Indo Sub Continental peoples, with the Festivals of Ottawa that are Chinese being very colorful let alone Holi which is a great celebration from Mother India. One such festival for the people in Canada who are of Chinese origins is Chinese New Year, when another is the Festival of Lanterns or Moon Cake Festival. This festival honors a rebellion where messages were hidden in Moon Cakes and lanterns were used amongst rebels, in which Moon Cakes are baked for the festival and huge lanterns based on the Rebel's Homes are built.
The Moon Cake Festival
Kingston is at the end of the Rideau Canal and it is a beautiful city that is located on the shores of Lake Ontario and facing the 1000 Islands as well as it being where the Saint Laurence begins, with the cities strategic location being important for Britain after 1761 and during the American Revolution and The War of 1812. A Fort called Fort Fredrick was built, and during the American Revolution and The War of 1812 the Fort saw much activity. In the 1840s four round Martello towers were built as tension occurred between The United Province of Canada and the U.S, with that being over Runaway Slaves being given Asylum in Canada and many Americans condemning the United Province for doing so.
Fort Fredrick and one of the four round Martello Towers
Kingston has a Town Hall which is one of the greatest Neo Roman and Palladian designed structures ever built in North America as a City Hall or Government Building of any kind, with the structure being the tallest in the old city. The Town Hall has an elegant front lawn and garden, with it being very much in bloom during Spring allowing Kingston to be a very visited city by many on weekend trips and especially from Ottawa and nearby Toronto.
The Town Hall
The Town Hall above the Kingston Skyline
The city has always lived on Trade and also the Armed Forces as an installation is still in Kingston while Tourism and Commerce is also important, when it is also to mention that Kingston is home to a University that is in a beautiful Stone Building of Victorian origins. That is The Queen's University and it was founded in 1841 just as The United Province of Canada was born and Kingston became it's first Capitol, when the Royal Military College of Canada is in Kingston and this institution is literally Canada's answer to West Point. That is located in the military installation which is called The Canadian Forces Base Kingston or CFB Kingston for short, and the Armed Forces still observe the old Martello Towers when that base as well as the Royal Military College are where Fort Fredrick stood.
The Queen's University
The Military College at night
The 1000 Islands are small islands that are covered with Trees and these are islands that are made of rocks, with the archipelago being at the beginning of the Saint Laurence with half of the archipelago being in Ontario and the other half being in New York State in other words half are in Canada and the other half are in The United States of America. The Friendship Bridge crosses the archipelago, when on an island one sees the beautiful Bolt Castle while on another one sees the beautiful Singer Castle.
The 1000 Islands as well as the Friendship Bridge and both Bolt Castle and Singer Castle
