Ottawa, for example, is as easy as getting down to Union Station. Stop the press. And according to plan, we may not see them au natural again for another 10 years. Preservation projects prevail.
Visitors still find their way inside, however, through a makeshift clapboard tunnel.
Some say there's no political science lesson more revealing than a seat in the spectator gallery after the tour. It would help if Parliament was in session. Complete your orientation, for example, by continuing eastward over the Rideau Canal, past Rideau Centre, Ottawa's downtown mall extraordinaire. By 1854, Bytown was deemed by Queen Victoria as the perfect location for a capital city. The name, however, must have lacked that touch of imperial quality as it was immediately changed to the more exotic, Ottawa.