Christmas Lights In The Capital

Today and tomorrow I close out the Christmas series with lights in the capital. I start with this view on the Sparks Street pedestrian mall.

A few blocks away at City Hall, trees are decorated. The Cartier Square Drill Hall neighbours the contemporary wing of City Hall in the background.

Across the street from City Hall is Confederation Park. Its Christmas decorating is a bit different. Balls of light are hung between trees, and instead of lights wound around branches, coloured spotlights from the ground illuminate the trees.

The Lord Elgin Hotel is lit up in the background here. The National Aboriginal Veterans Monument can be seen in silhouette against it.

The National Arts Centre looms in the background in this shot.

One more view looking into the park. I was heading up the street from here past the NAC.

The NAC is part of the boundary of Confederation Square, and the National War Memorial is the heart of the square. Christmas lights were ringing around the trees surrounding it.

From here I proceeded to Parliament Hill. For many years in the summers there has been a light show called Northern Lights projected onto Centre Block. It has a winter counterpart, on from early December into early January, and it turns out to be back, even with the work going on in Centre Block. The light show is a new one compared to when I last saw it in 2019; I don't know if it was on last year at all, and I wasn't around during the summer at night to see if Northern Lights was being held this past summer. If you're in the area, the show is about fifteen minutes long, repeating on the quarter hour from past five until eleven or so in the evenings.