October 2019 Ottawa, Canada

 

In October I returned to Ottawa, Canada for a conference of the International Leadership Association presenting a paper titled “Leaving your mark: Seven strategies for indelible leadership.”

While in Ottawa, I had a few days to stroll around the city taking in a couple of days of beautiful weather and some interesting sights such as the Parliament Building, the Rideau Canal, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located before the National War Memorial in Confederation Square, Ottawa, Ontario. The culmination of a project begun by the Royal Canadian Legion, the tomb was added to the war memorial in 2000 and holds the remains of an unidentified Canadian soldier who died in France during World War I. The soldier was selected from a cemetery in the vicinity of Vimy Ridge, the site of a famous Canadian battle.

The Rideau Canal is named for Rideau, French for “curtain”, and is derived from the curtain-like appearance of the Rideau River’s twin waterfalls where they join the Ottawa River.