Ottawa Self Guided Walking Tour And Scavenger Hunt

This is the starting point of your adventure and the location of the current Senate of Canada, as the Parliament building undergoes a multi-year renovation.
Learn some history and solve a few challenges outside the building.
Spend 15 minutes here.

Learn about this important monument and solve a challenge about it while you're here.

Walk over the Rideau Canal and spend time with a few different monuments, learning about the history of Canada and solving challenges with each.

Discover Canada's heroes, one from 5 significant periods in Canada's history.
Solve a challenge here.

Spend 5 minutes discovering the 14 flags of Canada, the country flag, 10 provincial flags, and 3 territorial flags. At the base of each flag is its armory.

Walk along the Rideau Canal towards the National Arts Centre. Learn its history and the concerts and plays it puts on.
Solve a challenge while you are here.
Spend 10 minutes walking to it.

See this museum and learn its significance and history.
Solve a challenge while here.
Spend 5 minutes.

See Ottawa's City Hall building and learn about its many functions.
Spend 5 minutes here.

Walk through this beautiful park. See 3 distinct features and solve challenges with each.

Learn the history of this gorgeous historic hotel. Solve a challenge here.
Spend 5 minutes here

See a beautiful memorial that plays music next to the National Arts Centre. Discover who Oscar Peterson was and solve a challenge here.

Learn about Canada's participation in 5 separate conflicts from 1899 onward. Solve a challenge here.

Walk on this pedestrian street to view many historic buildings. Learn more of the city's history.
Solve several challenges as you move from a monument to a historic building, to another monument...

Walk by the city's main tourist information center.
5 minutes here

Learn this building's history and solve a challenge here.

Walk by and learn about this museum in a modern glass building.
Solve a challenge here.
Spend 5 minutes.

Admire and learn about this historical "Art Deco" with Chateau-inspiration building. Also, learn how the Supreme Court functions
Solve a challenge here and walk around back to see the Ottawa River and learn about Gatineau across the river.
Spend 10 minutes here

See the national gallery building from afar and learn some of its history. You'll see it up closer further on.
Solve a challenge here.
Spend 5 minutes

Learn about this important media building near Parliament Hill.
Spend 5 minutes here

Learn about this flame and when it was lit, and who lit it.
Solve a challenge

Learn about the Canadian Parliament building and its important sections. Discover some of its history and solve challenges about them.
Spend 10 minutes here

See and learn about Sir Wilfrit Laurier, Canada's 5th and 1st francophone Prime Minister. Canada has had a long history of alternating French and English party leaders.
Solve a challenge here.

See and learn about this museum from the other side of the Rideau Canal.
Learn which film shot scenes here in winter.
Solve a challenge here.
Spend 5 minutes here

Walk around the west side of this historic hotel. Learn about its beginnings and "Chateau" style architecture.
Spend 5 minutes

Walk through this park behind the Chateau Laurier hotel and beside the Rideau Canal.
See the United States Embassy on the other side of the park, the Notre-Dame d'Ottawa Cathedral, and the National Arts Galery.
Solve a few challenges here.

Your adventure continues at this open-air public market and shopping district. Learn about its history.
5 minutes here.

This is your final full stop on your activity, before returning to the start location. Learn about this school and solve a challenge involving art from Canada's First Nations.
Spend 5 minutes here