Ottawa's Visitors Guide

Ottawa is a large, multicultural city with the warmth and welcome of a smaller town. Here, you can delve into history, art, Canadian culture and politics. You can explore the diversity of Ottawa’s multicultural neighbourhoods and hunt for local and exotic treasures. And you can wander through the green and pastoral parks and visit the rural areas of the city. Come to Ottawa and experience Canada’s capital city.

Ottawa is an open, friendly and welcoming destination for gay and lesbian travelers. Canada's Capital has an LGBT pedigree that extends back to the first-ever gay and lesbian public demonstration in Canada (1971), and that in recent years included perhaps the most public gay marriage of all time between two gay stars of the TV program The Amazing Race. Today, Ottawa is home to a proud and active gay and lesbian community with an ever-expanding variety of clubs, organizations, activities and events – including a very boisterous annual Pride Week celebration – that reflects the diversity of the local community. The centre of gay and lesbian life is the area around Bank Street and Somerset in the downtown core. Our growing gaybourhood has shops and bars and is the home base for local institutions serving the LGBT community. Explore it by day—or by night. But don't feel you have to limit yourself to one neighbourhood. There are things happening all over. On Sunday evenings, for example, there's a lesbian coffee club in suburban Barrhaven. You'll find gays and lesbians all over the city, doing the active things Ottawans do. Check publications such as Capital Xtra for listings and up-to-date information.

Pride Preferred Hotel Partner:

Capital Pride partners with this hotel to offer special discounts to those visitors coming to Pride. It offer great deals and equal rates to what you’ll find on the internet. Most importantly.

Make your sleep count towards Pride. Put your head on a bed in this Pride preferred hotel. Take advantage of the special Pride Packages these hotels offer and reserve your room today.

ARC THE HOTEL, Ottawa's premiere downtown boutique hotel located at 140 Slater St., is the official hotel sponsor for the 2010 Capital Pride Festival.

Ask about the special Capital Pride rate beginning at $119*

Reserve your room today at 1-800-699-2516 or reservations@arcthehotel.com.

*Rates quoted are for double occupancy and do not include applicable taxes and fees. 

Pride Preferred Visitors Information Partner:

• Ottawa Tourism (General infomation for tourists)
• Dorothy's Closet (Everything for the GLBT community)
• Gay Ottawa (Personals and events)
• Out Ottawa (Ottawa's Gay On-line Bar, Nightclub and Special Events Guide)
• Index (Ottawa GLBT business directory)

Pride Preferred Travel Partner:

VIA Rail is proud to sponsor Capital Pride 2010

Please check out VIA Rail and take the train to the 2010 Capital Pride Festival!