Any armour on display in Ottawa?

Hew · Post by **Hew** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 9:40 pm

My wife and I are going to be in Ottawa next weekend, and I was wondering if there were any displays of armour, or even any kind of medieval-ish collections in the city?
The web site for the War Museum says it's closed for renos until May. The site map for the Museum of Civilization has a section tantalizingly called "The Armoured Warrior", but it's about tanks.

de HervÃƒÂ© · Post by **de HervÃƒÂ©** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 12:05 pm

They are actually building a brand new war museum beside the Ottawa River, its quite immpressive- try to drive by it and take a look. The old war museum had a couple of 16th C helmets on display, but thats it. I used to volunteer at the Museum of Civilization, and they didnt have anything armour related on permanent exhibition (a couple travelling ones had stuff but are gone). I have never heard of any collections in Ottawa (Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto's got some stuff though).

de HervÃƒÂ©

Hew · Post by **Hew** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 10:16 pm

Ah well, thanks anyway.
Maybe we'll look for some wild nightclubs.

BTW - We're going to Ottawa so so that Her Excellency Adrienne Clarkson can pin one of these on my wife:
[img]http://www.gg.ca/honours/medals/msdmedal_military.jpg[/img]
http://www.gg.ca/Search/honours_descrip ... d=213&tc=2 (Susan Rose)

Kel Rekuta · Post by **Kel Rekuta** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:00 am

Hew wrote:Ah well, thanks anyway.
Maybe we'll look for some wild nightclubs.

BTW - We're going to Ottawa so so that Her Excellency Adrienne Clarkson can pin one of these on my wife:
[img]http://www.gg.ca/honours/medals/msdmedal_military.jpg[/img]
http://www.gg.ca/Search/honours_descrip ... d=213&tc=2 (Susan Rose)

Wow! That's great!

Congratulations to Mrs. Rose!

Kel

de HervÃƒÂ© · Post by **de HervÃƒÂ©** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 3:39 pm

I second those congratulations!

You'll like Rideau Hall- some cool architecture. 175 rooms covering 9500 square meters. The gardens are quite large too.