Museums

• Portrait Gallery of Canada
  Portrait Gallery of Canada
  The Portrait Gallery of Canada is a Canadian art collection specialising in portraiture. It was established on 23 January 2001 by the Government of Canada as a program of Library and Archives Canada....
  
  
• National Gallery of Canada
  National Gallery of Canada
  The National Gallery of Canada , located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries.The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was...
  
  
• Canadian Museum of Civilization
  Canadian Museum of Civilization
  The Canadian Museum of Civilization is Canada's national museum of human history and the most popular and most-visited museum in Canada....
  
   (in Gatineau
  Gatineau
  Gatineau is a city in western Quebec, Canada. It is the fourth largest city in the province. It is located on the northern banks of the Ottawa River, immediately across from Ottawa, Ontario, and together they form Canada's National Capital Region. Ottawa and Gatineau comprise a single Census...
  
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• Canadian War Museum
  Canadian War Museum
  The Canadian War Museum is Canada’s national museum of military history. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, the museum covers all facets of Canada’s military past, from the first recorded instances of death by armed violence in Canadian history several thousand years ago to the country’s most recent...
  
  
• Victoria Memorial Museum Building, housing the Canadian Museum of Nature
  Canadian Museum of Nature
  The Canadian Museum of Nature is a natural history museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Its collections, which were started by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1856, include all aspects of the intersection of human society and nature, from gardening to gene-splicing...
  
  
• Canadian Museum of Science and Technology
• Laurier House
  Laurier House
  Laurier House is a National Historic Site of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located at 335 Laurier Avenue East . It was formerly the residence of two Canadian Prime Ministers, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and William Lyon Mackenzie King. The house was built in 1878, but had significant later alterations...
  
  
• Bytown Museum
  Bytown Museum
  The Bytown Museum is a small museum in Ottawa located on the lower locks of the Rideau Canal at the Ottawa River just below Parliament Hill.The museum's exhibits follow the early history of the city, originally known as Bytown, and the construction of the Rideau Canal...
  
  

Government buildings

• Parliament of Canada
  Parliament of Canada
  The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislative branch of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in the national capital, Ottawa. Formally, the body consists of the Canadian monarch—represented by her governor general—the Senate, and the House of Commons, each element having its own officers and...
  
  
  • Peace Tower
    Peace Tower
    The Peace Tower is a focal bell and clock tower, sitting on the central axis of the Centre Block of the Canadian parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario. The present incarnation replaced the Victoria Tower after the latter burned down in 1916, along with most of the Centre Block...
    
    
  • Library of Parliament
    Library of Parliament
    The Library of Parliament is the main information repository and research resource for the Parliament of Canada...
    
    
• Ottawa City Hall
  Ottawa City Hall
  The current Ottawa City Hall is the city hall of Ottawa, Canada. The downtown complex consists of two connected buildings: a modern wing located on Laurier Avenue and a 19th century heritage wing located on Elgin Street...
  
  
• Ottawa Courthouse
  Ottawa Courthouse
  The Ottawa Courthouse is an Ontario provincial courthouse in Ottawa, Ontario. It is the main provincial court for the Ottawa area, and as such handles most of the region's legal affairs. The building is home to small claims, family, criminal, district, and the Ottawa branch of the Ontario Superior...
  
  
• Supreme Court of Canada
  Supreme Court of Canada
  The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system. The court grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts, and its decisions...
  
  
• National Library and Archives of Canada
• Langevin Block
  Langevin Block
  The Langevin Block is an office building facing Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. As the home of the Privy Council Office and Office of the Prime Minister, it is the working headquarters of the executive branch of the Canadian government...
  
  
• Cartier Square Drill Hall
  Cartier Square Drill Hall
  The Drill Hall at Cartier Square is a dedicated military training facility in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It has been a local landmark since its construction in 1879. The drill hall is long and has two tall mansard towers....
  
  
• East and West Memorial Buildings
  East and West Memorial Buildings
  The East Memorial Building and West Memorial Building are a pair of government buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Construction started in 1949 to house the rapidly growing Department of Veterans Affairs. The buildings were thus originally named the Veterans Memorial Buildings. They were...
  
  
• Bank of Canada
  Bank of Canada
  The Bank of Canada is Canada's central bank and "lender of last resort". The Bank was created by an Act of Parliament on July 3, 1934 as a privately owned corporation. In 1938, the Bank became a Crown corporation belonging to the Government of Canada...
  
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• Confederation Building (Ottawa)
  Confederation Building (Ottawa)
  The Confederation Building is a gothic revival office building in Ottawa, Canada. Located just west of the Parliament Buildings at Bank and Wellington Streets, it is generally considered part of Parliament Hill. Originally the land where the Confederation Building, and also the Supreme Court of...
  
  
• Department of National Defence Headquarters (Canada)
  Department of National Defence Headquarters (Canada)
  The Major-General George R. Pearkes Building is the principal location of Canada's National Defence Headquarters and is located in Ottawa, Ontario....
  
  
• Government Conference Centre
  Government Conference Centre
  The Government Conference Centre is a government building in downtown Ottawa, Canada, located at 2 Rideau Street. It is situated at the intersection of Wellington Street and the Rideau Canal, just a short distance from the Parliament buildings and Confederation Square, and across the street from...
  
  
• Sir Leonard Tilley Building
  Sir Leonard Tilley Building
  Sir Leonard Tilley Building and Annex is a Canadian federal office building property consisting of two buildings and operated by the Public Works and Government Services Canada and located at 719 Heron Road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was designed by Bemi & Associates Architects in 1987. The...
  
  
• Ottawa Convention Centre
  Ottawa Convention Centre
  The Ottawa Convention Centre is a convention centre in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada which opened in April 2011. The Centre replaces the Ottawa Congress Centre, which opened in 1985. The new centre is built on the site of the Congress Centre building, which was demolished in 2008-2009. The...
  
   formerly Ottawa Congress Centre

Official residences

• Rideau Hall
  Rideau Hall
  Rideau Hall is, since 1867, the official residence in Ottawa of both the Canadian monarch and the Governor General of Canada. It stands in Canada's capital on a 0.36 km2 estate at 1 Sussex Drive, with the main building consisting of 170 rooms across 9,500 m2 , and 24 outbuildings around the...
  
  
• 24 Sussex Drive
  24 Sussex Drive
  24 Sussex Drive is the official residence of the Prime Minister of Canada, located in the New Edinburgh neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario. Built between 1866 and 1868 by Joseph Merrill Currier, it has been the official home of the Canadian prime minister since 1951.-History:The house at 24 Sussex...
  
  
• Stornoway
  Stornoway (residence)
  Stornoway is the name of the official residence of the Leader of the Opposition in Canada, and has been used as such since 1950. It is provided in recognition of the opposition leader's position...
  
  
• 7 Rideau Gate
  7 Rideau Gate
  7 Rideau Gate is the Canadian government's official guest house for distinguished visitors, such as heads of state and high-level government officials...
  
  

Embassies and high commissions

• Algerian
  Embassy of Algeria in Ottawa
  The Algerian Embassy in Canada is the embassy of Algeria in Ottawa, Canada. It is located in the Fleck/Paterson House in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood of Ottawa. It is located at 500 Wilbrod and looks out on the Rideau River.- History :...
  
   (Fleck/Paterson House)
• American
  Embassy of the United States in Ottawa
  The United States Embassy in Ottawa is a building located in Ottawa which opened in 1999.-Original mission:Before this date the mission occupied a 1930s era building directly across from Parliament Hill at 100 Wellington Street...
  
  
• Angolan
  Embassy of Angola in Ottawa
  The Embassy of the Republic of Angola in Canada is the embassy of Angola in Canada. It is located in Panet House at the corner of Laurier Avenue and King Edward, next to the University of Ottawa. The current charge d'affaire ad interim is Sofia Silverio Da Silva.- History :Panet House was built in...
  
   (Panet House)
• British
  High Commission of the United Kingdom in Ottawa
  The British High Commission in Ottawa is the main diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in Canada. It is located at 80 Elgin Street in downtown Ottawa, across the street from the National Arts Centre and not far from Parliament Hill.- History :...
  
  
• Brunei Darussalam
  High Commission of Brunei Darussalam in Ottawa
  The High Commission of Brunei Darussalam in Canada is currently located in Ottawa, Canada, in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood at 395 Laurier Avenue East in the building known as Stadacona Hall.-Stadacona Hall:...
  
   (Stadcona Hall)
• P. R. Chinese
• Croatian (Toller House)
• French
  Embassy of France in Ottawa
  The Embassy of France in Ottawa is the diplomatic mission of France to Canada, located at 42 Sussex Drive in the New Edinburgh neighbourhood of Ottawa....
  
  
• German
• Russian

Office towers

• Lester B. Pearson Building
  Lester B. Pearson Building
  The Lester B. Pearson Building is the headquarters of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. It is located at 125 Sussex Drive in the Lower Town neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, and was built between 1968 and 1973. It is named after Lester B...
  
  
• L'Esplanade Laurier
  Esplanade Laurier
  L'Esplanade Laurier is an office complex in downtown Ottawa, Canada. It consists of two 23-story towers, a three story underground parking garage and a podium containing a two-story shopping mall. The entire structure is clad in white carrara marble, making it clearly stand out of from the other...
  
  
• Place de Ville
  Place de Ville
  Place de Ville is a complex of office towers in downtown Ottawa. It currently consists of four buildings, Place de Ville A, B, and C, and the 'Podium' building, two large hotels, and the city's largest underground parking garage. The buildings are linked by an underground shopping complex...
  
  
• Place Bell
  Place Bell
  Place Bell is one of the tallest buildings in Ottawa, Canada with a height of . The 27-storey building stands on Elgin Street in downtown Ottawa, and is distinguishable by its wide stature .The...
  
  
• Major-General George R Pearkes Building, sometimes called the "Department of National Defence Building"
• World Exchange Plaza
  World Exchange Plaza
  The World Exchange Plaza is a building in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The first phase of the project was completed in 1991. It covers an entire city block between Metcalfe and O'Connor south of Queen Street. The twenty-storey building was unusual in Ottawa for its visual flair. The eastern...
  
  
• C.D. Howe Building
• Thomas D'Arcy McGee Building
  Thomas D'Arcy McGee Building
  The Thomas D'Arcy McGee Building, at 90 Sparks Street, is an office building in Ottawa, Canada. It is located on the south side of Sparks Street, east of Metcalfe. The building was opened in 1981 with the Royal Bank of Canada as its main occupant and accordingly it was named the Royal Bank Centre...
  
  
• R.H. Coats Building
• CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre
  CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre
  The CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre is located on Sparks Street in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and is home to the head office of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the CBC's various English and French language operations in the National Capital Region...
  
  
• Heritage Place
• Place du Portage
  Place du Portage
  right|thumb|250px|The Place du Portage complex facing the Ottawa River.Place du Portage is a large office complex in the Hull sector of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, situated along Boulevard Maisonneuve and facing the Ottawa River...
  
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  Gatineau
  Gatineau is a city in western Quebec, Canada. It is the fourth largest city in the province. It is located on the northern banks of the Ottawa River, immediately across from Ottawa, Ontario, and together they form Canada's National Capital Region. Ottawa and Gatineau comprise a single Census...
  
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• Terrasses de la Chaudière
  Terrasses de la Chaudière
  Terrasses de la Chaudière is a complex of government office buildings in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. The complex was built in 1978 as part of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's initiative to see more federal workers based in the Quebec side of the Ottawa River. It was built by developer Robert Campeau...
  
   (in Gatineau
  Gatineau
  Gatineau is a city in western Quebec, Canada. It is the fourth largest city in the province. It is located on the northern banks of the Ottawa River, immediately across from Ottawa, Ontario, and together they form Canada's National Capital Region. Ottawa and Gatineau comprise a single Census...
  
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Schools

• Lisgar Collegiate Institute
  Lisgar Collegiate Institute
  Lisgar Collegiate Institute is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Lisgar Collegiate Institute, one of the country's best regarded public schools, is located in downtown Ottawa by the Rideau Canal and is only a few blocks from Canada's Parliament Hill...
  
  
• Glebe Collegiate Institute
  Glebe Collegiate Institute
  Glebe Collegiate Institute is a high school in the Glebe neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Administered by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, Glebe Collegiate Institute has approximately 1,500 students; students and sports teams are referred to as "Gryphons".The school offers many...
  
  
• Ashbury
• Elmwood
• Immaculata
  Immaculata High School (Ottawa)
  Immaculata High School is a Roman Catholic high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Ottawa Catholic School Board. It is currently located along the Rideau Canal in Old Ottawa East neighbourhood of Ottawa...
  
  
• Hawthorne Public School
  Hawthorne Public School (Ottawa)
  Hawthorne Public School is a school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 2158 St. Laurent Blvd and represents around 400 students from Kindergarten to Grade Eight from over 50 countries around the world...
  
  
• Algonquin College
  Algonquin College
  Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is a publicly funded English-language college and member of Polytechnics Canada located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The college serves the National Capital Region and the outlying areas of Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec...
  
  

Religious buildings

• Christ Church Cathedral
  Christ Church Cathedral (Ottawa)
  Christ Church Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The church is located in the northwest section of the city's downtown at the western end of Sparks Street at the top of a promontory looking down to the Ottawa River.-Beginnings:...
  
  
• Dominion-Chalmers United Church
  Dominion-Chalmers United Church
  Dominion Chalmers United Church is a large United church, located in downtown Ottawa, at the corner of Cooper and O'Connor Streets...
  
  
• Notre-Dame Cathedral

Other

• Chateau Laurier
  Château Laurier
  The Fairmont Château Laurier is a landmark hotel in Downtown Ottawa, Ontario located near the intersection of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive designed in the Châteauesque style.-History:...
  
  
• Lord Elgin Hotel
  Lord Elgin Hotel
  The Lord Elgin Hotel is a prominent hotel in downtown Ottawa, Canada with 355 guest rooms, located at 100 Elgin Street at Laurier Avenue, across from Confederation Park...
  
  
• Brookstreet Hotel
  Brookstreet Hotel
  The Brookstreet Hotel is a modern luxury hotel in suburban Ottawa, Ontario, located north of the Queensway, near the intersection of March Road and Carling Avenue, in the Kanata Research Park...
  
  
• St. Laurent Shopping Centre
  St. Laurent Shopping Centre
  St. Laurent Shopping Centre is a major shopping centre located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada owned and operated by Morguard REIT. The shopping mall is located just north of Highway 417 at the corner of St. Laurent Boulevard and Coventry Road. It opened its doors in 1967.St...
  
  
• Bayshore Shopping Centre
  Bayshore Shopping Centre
  Bayshore Shopping Centre is a major shopping mall located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, more specifically in the former city of Nepean, Ontario. The mall is one of the busiest in the National Capital Region as it attracts about 7 million visitors per year from across the city and the surrounding...
  
  
• Goodwin House
  Goodwin House
  Goodwin House is a prominent heritage building in Ottawa, Canada. Located at 312 Laurier Avenue East it was built by railway executive George Goodwin from 1899 to 1900. It is one of the largest mansions ever built in the city. It later became a convent for the Grey Nuns, and during the Second...
  
  
• Ben Franklin Place
  Ben Franklin Place
  Ben Franklin Place is a building complex in the Centrepointe area of Ottawa which houses the Centrepointe Branch of the Ottawa Public Library, the Centrepointe Theatre, and a satellite office for the city of Ottawa. It also includes an outdoor skating rink...
  
  
• Lansdowne Park
  Lansdowne Park
  Lansdowne Park is a historic sports, exhibition and entertainment facility in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, owned by the City of Ottawa. It is located along Bank Street and is adjacent to the Rideau Canal, in central Ottawa...
  
  
• National Arts Centre
  National Arts Centre
  The National Arts Centre is a centre for the performing arts located in Ottawa, Ontario, between Elgin Street and the Rideau Canal...
  
  
• Former Ogilvy's Department Store
  Ogilvy's
  Charles Ogilvy Limited, or "Ogilvy's", was a department store in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1887. For much of the 20th century, Ogilvy's was one of Ottawa's higher-end department stores....
  
  
• The Ottawa Hospital
  The Ottawa Hospital
  The Ottawa Hospital or L'Hôpital d'Ottawa is a major, non-profit, public, university teaching hospital in Ottawa made up of the former Grace Hospital, Riverside Hospital, Ottawa General Hospital and Ottawa Civic Hospital. It is a 1,195-bed academic health sciences centre...
  
  
• Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport
  Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport
  Ottawa/Macdonald-Cartier International Airport or Macdonald-Cartier International Airport , in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada is named after Sirs John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier...
  
  
• Ottawa Public Library
  Ottawa Public Library
  The Ottawa Public Library is the library system of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and is the largest bilingual library in North America...
  
   Main Branch
• Ottawa Train Station
  Ottawa Train Station
  Ottawa Station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located at 200 Tremblay Road, is served by Via Rail inter-city trains connecting it to Toronto and Montreal. OC Transpo’s Train rapid transit station carries railway passengers into the city centre or into the eastern suburbs.The station was designed by...
  
  
• Ottawa Curling Club
  Ottawa Curling Club
  The Ottawa Curling Club is an historic curling club located in downtown Ottawa on O'Connor Street. It is the oldest curling club in Ottawa, established in 1851 by Allan Gilmour as the Bytown Curling Club. The Club first played on the Rideau Canal until 1858...
  
  
• Ottawa Baseball Stadium
• Rideau Centre
  Rideau Centre
  Rideau Centre is a three-level shopping centre on Rideau Street in Downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It borders on Rideau Street , the Rideau Canal, the Mackenzie King Bridge, and Nicholas Street....
  
  
• Scotiabank Place
  Scotiabank Place
  Scotiabank Place is a multi-purpose arena, located in Kanata, a suburban district of Ottawa, Ontario. It is home to the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League. It has also hosted the Canadian University Men's Basketball Championship...
  
  

Significant demolished buildings

• Capitol Cinema
  Capitol Cinema (Ottawa)
  The Capitol Cinema was the largest movie theatre ever built in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and was the city's only true movie palace. Opened in 1920, the 2530-seat cinema was regarded as one of the best cinemas designed by famed theatre-architect Thomas W...
  
  
• Daly Building
  Daly Building
  The Daly Building was an historic department store and office building in Ottawa, Canada that was demolished with much controversy in 1991-92....
  
  
• Former city halls:
  • First city hall
    First City Hall (Ottawa)
    The first city hall for the city of Ottawa, Ontario was built in 1849 on Elgin Street between Queen and Albert Streets.Originally known as the West Ward Market Building on Elgin Street, the building was one of two markets in Ottawa, then called Bytown...
    
    
  • Second city hall
    Second City Hall (Ottawa)
    Ottawa, Ontario's second city hall was built in 1877 on Elgin Street between Queen and Albert Streets and next to Ottawa's First City Hall.Built by architects Horsey and Sheard of Ottawa, the Second Empire French and Italian Style had one tall tower and three smaller ones...
    
    
• Russell Hotel
  Russell Hotel (Ottawa)
  The Russell House hotel was the most high profile hotel in Ottawa, Canada for many decades.-History:The hotel was located at the southeast corner of Sparks Street and Elgin. A small hotel was first built there in the 1840s and the small structure was originally named Campbell's Hotel after its...
  
  
• Ottawa Auditorium
• Congress Centre
• Lorne Building

Map of major buildings

See also

• Architecture of Ottawa
  Architecture of Ottawa
  The architecture of Ottawa is most marked by the city's role as the national capital of Canada. This gives the city a number of monumental structures designed to represent the federal government and the nation. It also means that as a city dominated by government bureaucrats, much of its...
  
  
• List of buildings
• List of designated heritage properties in Ottawa
• List of Ottawa roads
• List of tallest buildings in Ottawa-Gatineau
• List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Ottawa