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Originally Posted by FFX-ME

It seems Ottawa's tourism is dominated by architecture and museums. Ottawa has much too many museums, and unfortunately it's all we have. Which begs the question: How come Ottawa doesn't have any of the large attractions nearly all other large cities have, such as a zoo, and aquarium or an amusement park. Calypso was a nice development (although Cascade already existed) but it is quite a ways from the city.

Were there, at some point in time projects such as a zoo (BTW Papanack is a sad excuse for a zoo an hour away from the city), an aquarium, or an amusement park? Or are such projects planned?

It would be great if they moved the animals from Papanack inside the city, with new, high quality, enclosures. It would be a low cost way of getting this going and developing a world class attraction for the capital. It could then be developed like marine land, for example, to include rides, etc, to making a large, multi-purpose, amusement park that you can realistically spend whole days there,

Youre missing the nationally significant green space and the Rideau Carleton Raceway!