Ottawa Bluesfest is an annual outdoor music festival that takes place each July in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. While the festival's lineup historically focused on blues music at its inception, it has increasingly showcased mainstream pop, hip hop, reggae, rock and EDM in recent years. Bluesfest has become the second largest music festival in Canada and the third largest music festival in North America.
Aerial view of the 2007 Bluesfest
Bluesfest crowds during the 2011 festival
A beautiful view of the closing night of Ottawa's RBC Bluesfest 2018, as taken by a Bluesfest volunteer.
LeBreton Flats known colloquially as The Flats is a neighbourhood in Somerset Ward in central Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It lies to the west of Centretown neighbourhood, and to the north of Centretown West. The Ottawa River forms the western and northern limit, with the western side being a wider area of the river known as Nepean Bay.
LeBreton Flats
LeBreton Flats, c. 1865
LeBreton Flats after the 1900 fire.
Two children in LeBreton Flats in 1963, as the lands were being expropriated and the residents forced to vacate the neighbourhood.