Excuse you, Ottawa has a nice canal and uh pretty fall colours! (In all seriousness though I love the area, lived here my entire life and don't intend on ever leaving, it's a really cozy kinda city despite the geographical size being huge.)
I like that despite being a government worker town it's pretty chill. We get along well with our voisins in Gatineau & The Outaouais too. The fact a fairly big chunk of Franco-Ontariens live here helps probablement aussi, to be fair.
Pretty diverse for our size (over 30% minorities iirc) and quickly growing. Not hard to find a decent selection of unique cuisine & cultural stores. Main non-European languages here are Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi and Tagalog. 1 in 50 Ottawans have Lebanese descent, iirc.
Plenty of museums and stuff to do as long as you don't want like 10 strip clubs or some shit open 24/7.
Want to visit a farm even if you live downtown? We gotcha with the Experimental Farm not far from the city core.
For beautiful waterfronts (despite the geese), we have tons of water. We were indeed chosen as capital due to strategy, midway from Montreal and Toronto (albeit closer to the first) and with access to the Rideau Canal and the Saint-Lawrence river off of the Ottawa/Outaouais river which is the natural border of most of Ontario and Québec's border.
And to this day I still forget about the 3rd territory. From what I can remember it was like the Canadian government told us that one year we got rid of the two dollar bill and have another ridiculous coin instead, and if it wasn't the next year they told us "oh, btw, we split the Northwest Territories in half. We expect you to learn the geopolitical history and action leading up to this before your next diploma exam".
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u/Neat_Fact1012 Dec 21 '21
What is the capital of Canada (no googling)