Museums in Ottawa - Rideau Hall, Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Canadian War Museum, Library and Archives Canada, Watson's Mill (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Rideau Hall, Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Canadian War Museum, Library and Archives Canada, Watson's Mill, National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Nature, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Governor General's Foot Guards, Currency Museum, CFS Carp, Portrait Gallery of Canada, Canadian Ski Museum, Horaceville, Ottawa, Centrepointe Theatre, Bytown Museum, Laurier House, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Canada Agriculture Museum, Billings Estate Museum, Nepean Museum, Ottawa School of Art, Canada and the World Pavilion, Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation. Excerpt: Rideau Hall is, since 1867, the official residence in Ottawa of both the Canadian monarch and the Governor General of Canada. It stands in Canada's capital on a 0.36 km (88 acre) estate at 1 Sussex Drive, with the main building consisting of 170 rooms across 9,500 m (102,000 ft), and 24 outbuildings around the grounds. While the equivalent building in many countries has a prominent, central place in the national capital (Buckingham Palace, the White House, and the Royal Palace of the Netherlands, for example), Rideau Hall's site is relatively unobtrusive within Ottawa, giving it more the character of a private home. Most of Rideau Hall is used for state affairs, only 500 m (5,400 ft) of its area being dedicated to private living quarters, while additional areas serve as the offices of the Canadian Heraldic Authority and the principal workplace of the governor general and his or her staff - either the term Rideau Hall, as a metonym, or the formal idiom Government House is employed to refer to this bureaucratic branch. Officially received at the palace are foreign heads of state, both incoming and outgoing ambassadors and high commissioners to Canada, and Canadian crown ministers for audiences with either the viceroy or ...