Showing posts with label Inspiration Village. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inspiration Village. Show all posts

Sunday, October 15, 2017

National Parks

One of the displays at Inspiration Village was about the national parks of Canada, which can be found in every single province and territory. Some are larger, some smaller. Some are easily accessible, others are in remote spots. Parks Canada manages them, and also manages the various National Historic Sites spread throughout the country.


Here we have a larger view of Inspiration Village, with the Connaught Building and the Peace Tower in the background.


Nunavut's displays caught my interest during my visits to Inspiration Village over the summer. The territory, created as a division of the Northwest Territories at the end of the 20th century, features some of our most rugged and beautiful landscapes.


In this display, the background banner includes one of those landscapes- Mount Thor.


I should have photographed this display a few minutes earlier than I did. Manitoba's display included large polar bears of the stuffed animal variety, and when I was first looking here, a family had a little white dog posing among the bears. That dog was very patient; one expects it was used to being a photo subject.

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Inspiration Village

As I'm doing other things today here, I have a photo post at my writer's blog today about a recent open house at the National Arts Centre. Go on over and take a look.

Inspiration Village is the title of an installation that went through the summer here in Ottawa, set in the Byward Market downtown. It was staged as part of the Canada 150 celebrations, consisting of music, buskers, and displays of provinces, territories, and other organizations. On Labour Day, the last day it was active, I came by to photograph. Stilt walkers were in abundance. 


One of the stilt walkers went about, proclaiming that she was everyone's favourite season: autumn.


There were a couple of large signs here for posing for photos; this first one is an initiative of one of our banks, and there have been counterparts of it elsewhere across the country this summer.


The second one you've seen glimpses of above, and it was the city spelled out large scale. I have more from this event tomorrow.