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We are "Step On Guides" Ottawa, who together with our other office in Quebec City, offer informative and entertaining guided sightseeing tours for QuČbec City, MontrČal and Ottawa.  In Ottawa, our guides are dressed in period costumes and play historical characters such as Prime Minister Mackenzie King.  The tours run from two and a half hours to a full day.  Please find below some sample programs and prices for Canada's colourful capital.

"Ottawa City Tour"

Your two and a half hour tour starts off at magnificent Parliament Hill, the centre stage of Canadian
political life and a place of striking architectural beauty.  During July and August you can gather there and watch the Changing of the Guard.  We will stop and admire the stunning grandeur of the world famous Museum of
Civilization which also offers a wondrous panorama of the Capital City.
We will show you famed Sussex Drive with its museums, churches, embassies, everything from the Royal Canadian Mint via 24 Sussex Drive, the Prime Minister's home, to the Governor General's residence at beautiful Rideau Hall.  While driving along Rideau Canal, your guide will recount its colourful history of glory and death.  You will get a look a the Horse Stables of the "R.C.M.P. Musical Ride" with its pampered thoroughbreds.  And no trip to Ottawa would be complete without the well-known and popular
Byward Market, the belly of the town.  Lots to see, lots to enjoy, be sure to bring your camera!

"All Day Tour of Ottawa with Wakefield Village"

This tour includes the above city tour plus a visit to the beautiful Ornamental Gardens and, if you join us in May, we will tour the spring Tulip Festival with more than three million tulips in bloom.  Then, we're off to the picturesque village of Wakefield, Quebec, an hour's drive, and the opportunity to wander around the village and check out the many unique shops and stores.  This tour lasts around eight hours and includes a lunch break.

"Four hour Excursion to the Village of Wakefield and Surrounding Area"

Owing to Wakefield's popularity, we have added this special four hour tour which gives you enough time to enjoy this lovely region.  Our specially trained guide will meet you at your hotel and then accompany you on a leisurely drive along the scenic Gatineau River, through charming little communities to the picturesque village of Wakefield, Quebec.  This quaint town is full of clapboard houses with deep gables, reminding one of a Bing Crosby movie.  Our guide will make recommendations for lunch at one of several unique little restaurants in town or even to make up a picnic lunch at a local bakery and enjoy it in a riverside park while watching the crew of one of Canada's last authentic steam trains turn the huge locomotives on a special turntable.  We will stop at the beautifully restored wooden covered bridge spanning the mighty Gatineau as well as at the Old Grist Mill, which stands just above the village at the foot of the beautiful Falls.  Tour members will long remember this relaxing and enjoyable trip through lovely countryside and back to a less hectic time.  We look forward to seeing you in 2004!