The national capital region has a huge amount of potential that could be far better exploited by the tourism industry, if people put their minds to it. The Ottawa River is a good example of this under-use of natural resources, but maybe things are about to change.
CBC Ottawa announced this week that this summer there will be a new attraction in town.
Wilderness Tours, a white water rafting company that normally operates from much further upstream, near Cobden,
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Ottawa River with the city ahead, from the Remic Rapids
below Bate Island, spring 2013 |
will begin offering tours down the Ottawa River right in the heart of the nation's capital beginning in June [...] The company has been given permission to take customers downstream through the Des Chênes and Remic Rapids from Britannia to Lemieux Island, just west of Chaudiere Island.
It sounds like a good idea that will especially appeal to visitors from elsewhere in Canada or from overseas, because:
... tour guides will also inform participants about aboriginal, fur and lumber trade history [...] "You're not just being told about the history of the Ottawa river. You're experiencing it for yourself."
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