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Re: [OM] Bay Area Get together

Subject: Re: [OM] Bay Area Get together
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:28:25 -0700
At 07:37 AM 3/28/2003 -0800, Mike Butler wrote:

Next, to continue the hectic pace at which my life is running I will be in Canada the week of April 7th. I know we have quite a few Canadian members, but I do not know if there are any in the Kanata (sort of near Ottawa I'm told) area.

Yeah, Kanata's basically a suburb of Ottawa, though I'm sure they'd be miffed to be thought of like that. ;-) Perhaps more of a "bedroom community" or "satellite community." Planned as a "new community" just west of Ottawa with construction starting in the early 60's, and pretty much the epicentre of the Ottawa area's "Silicon Valley North."

I am not exactly sure where Ottawa is yet but that is where I'll be for the week (looking for it on Yahoo as I write).

Heh. Easternmost Ontario, just across (south of) the Ottawa river from Hull, Quebec, and, by car, a couple of hours east and north of Toronto. If you want nightlife, you drive over to Hull; Ottawa, being our nation's capitol, is pretty boring at night for all but the embassy-and-intelligentsia crowd (who get to go to all the soirees). Sorry, Ottawanians, but I've been there on business several times -- boooooooooring! But the casino across the water is interesting, and there are some nice restaurants in the downtown Ottawa area.

I'll have Saturday free, leaving Sunday morning, but at this time I won't have a car. So if there are folks in the area interested in getting together or have suggestions for things to see and / or do please drop me a line.

There's a few -- Tom Trottier comes to mind immediately... Ottawa has several wonderful attractions, such as the various museums, art galleries, etc. And did I mention the nightlife in Hull? ;-)


Garth (ducking and running from the howls of outrage by Ottawa residents)

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