The Hull bank

Back to the Ottawa River, for this post.

Standing outside the Musée des Civilisations in Hull, you're awarded the best view of Parliament Hill in the National Capital Region. From the Hill itself, the view is also good, but marred to some extent in its glamour by the toilet paper factory straight ahead of you.

Wikipedia photo, taken in summer time

Some say that the skyscrapers, government offices rising from the Place du Portage, do not enrich the view either; that's a matter of taste. The plumes of steam on winter days are a dramatic enhancement. In the nineteenth century the steam and the mills were on the Ontario side.

Next to the paper products factory is an interesting memorial to the original industry that gave this part of Canada its prosperity, the lumber trade. On this spot once stood a matchstick factory belonging to E.B. Eddy, and the still-standing stone tower was part of it. The next thing downstream to be noticed on the Hull bank is the distinctive architecture of the museum, and in the distance, the Gatineau Hills.

The Hull bank from Nepean Point, this photo more typical of the current season