Skating On The Rideau Canal

24 February 2010By Zhu 22 Comments

Winterlude may be over, but the Rideau Canal, our national landmark, is still open for skating. Downtown Ottawa, I keep on seeing passers-by casually carrying a pair of skates in the hands or on their shoulders, heading to the longest skating rink in the world (okay, I know some may argue it’s not!). The crowd on weekends is pretty impressive!

Only in Canada you can see toddlers skating perfectly, moms pushing strollers on ice and teens goofing around, secretly training and hoping to be the next Wayne Gretzky.

Skating on the Canal is actually pretty hard because the ice if far from being smooth — no zamboni to resurface it! It can get quite slushy (slush is a mix of ice/ snow and water) and there are holes here and there.

Walker With Skates

Looking Down At The Canal

The Rideau Canal

Slow Down, Skaters Ahead	Ice
Father and Son	No Pedestrians (Too Icy!)
Tying Up Skates	Baby Skating
Ooops.. Hole In The Ice	Little Girl Resting
Queuing For... Yeah, Beavertails	Yes, I Love Them!

The Rideau Canal

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Priyank said:

I really want to go to the canal and skate. I learnt skating and I think it will be very nice to tell people that “I skated in the Rideau canal”… hehehe! Enjoy the beavertail!
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# 18 March 2010 at 10:24 pm