Bus 2 Ottawa Final Itinerary

FINAL ITINERARY St. Marguerite d'Youville - Grade 8 Halton Catholic District School Board Tour ID: 19-29149/1, Ottawa June 12 to 14, 2019 BUS 2 Day One - Wednesday June 12, 2019 3:00 PM Cycling Along the Ottawa River 7:00 AM Pacific Western Motor Coach Grab your helmets and follow your guide as Arrival at your school of a washroom you bike along the Ottawa River. This fun equipped, climate controlled, highway motor outdoor adventure runs rain or shine and coach. Load your luggage and prepare for allows students to see a different side of departure. NOTE: your coach size may change Major’s Hill Park, Alexandra Bridge, Portage based on your group size. Bridge, Victoria Island and the Main Locks. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Meet your guide at # of Buses: 2 x 52 the Plaza Bridge on Rideau Street 15-20 Charter #: 50594 minutes before your scheduled start time. Dispatch #: 1-800-387-6787 Duration: 75 minutes 7:30 AM Board your motor coach and depart. Address: East arch, Plaza Bridge, Appropriate rest and meal stops will be made. 2 rue Rideau Street, Ottawa, Ontario Phone: 613-241-4140 Your Tour Leader will be picked up en route. 4:15 PM Board your motor coach and depart for your They will get to know the students on a first next activity. name basis and lead discussions. 4:30 PM Hotel Check In at the Delta Approximate time of arrival at the Delta Take Highway #407 to and from your Ottawa City Centre. destination. Address: 101 Lyon Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Participate in The Adventure! K1R 5T9 What time is it? Adventure Time! This Phone: 613-237-3600 Brightspark Exclusive spans the entire trip to 5:15 PM Board your motor coach and depart for your keep your students engaged. The game bonds next activity. groups together as they try to win the most points, with correct answers to trivia, NOTE: Upon arrival of dinner at Lone Star, positivity and punctuality, by the end of the your drivers are off duty for the remainder of tour. Optional social media component with the evening. trip hashtags and a photo contest available. 5:30 PM Fajita dinner Lone Star (chicken & beef) - 2:00 PM Legislate This! Byward Market Join your Tour Leader on Parliament Hill to MENU: Lone Star's famous chips and salsa, learn how a bill becomes a law. Students will fries, mesquite grilled chicken & beef fajitas debate a sample piece of legislature during served with homemade flour tortillas, sautéed this mock parliament and will discover the onions and peppers, guacamole upon request, processes that MPs experience as they vote in Pico de Gallo, sour cream and cheddar cheese, new legislation. This Brightspark Exclusive is a soft drink and cookies. fun game that ties perfectly into the curriculum. Duration: 60 minutes Address: 128 George Street, Ottawa, Ontario, 2:30 PM As a group, walk to your next activity. K1N 9N9 Phone: 613-562-9865

@brightsparkcanada Quote: 19-29149/1 | May 22, 2019 | Tour Consultant: Jennifer Holden | Page 1 of 4 FINAL ITINERARY St. Marguerite d'Youville - Grade 8 Halton Catholic District School Board Tour ID: 19-29149/1, Ottawa June 12 to 14, 2019 BUS 2 6:45 PM Haunted Jail Tour 10:00 AM SparkTogether Visit death row and the gallows inside the Old Your students will participate in fun, team Carleton County Jail and other haunted building games led by your Tour Leader. This locations in Ottawa while your tour guide Brightspark Exclusive will challenge students’ recounts supernatural encounters. LOCATION: problem solving and decision making skills in Tours depart from the ticket booth at the an interactive setting. corner of Sparks Street and Elgin Street. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Dress appropriately, 10:30 AM As a group, walk to your next activity. tours run rain or shine.

Duration: 60 minutes 11:00 AM Guided Tour of the National Gallery of Canada Address: 46 Sparks Street, (Ticket Office), Enjoy a guided tour of one of the architectural Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5A5 jewels of Ottawa, the National Gallery of Phone: 613-232-0344 Canada, which contains paintings and sculptures from around the world. Works by 7:45 PM Discover Bytown Picasso, Van Gogh, Warhol, and the Group of Explore Ottawa’s past and present with your Seven are some of the thousands displayed Tour Leader as you walk through the for everyone to enjoy. NOTE: The tour is one important historical landmarks of our capital. hour in duration. Afterwards, group will have Students will discover the dubious history of time to explore the Museum and Gift Shop. Bytown as they are guided through the streets of the Byward Market, walk along the Rideau Duration: 60 minutes Canal – a UNESCO World Heritage Site, see Address: 380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, the National War Memorial, and visit the steps K1N 9N4 of Parliament Hill. Phone: 613-990-1985 12:15 PM As a group, walk to your next activity. 9:00 PM As a group, walk back to your accommodations. 12:30 PM Rideau Centre Lunch at your own cost at the Rideau Centre. 10:00 PM Night Security provided each evening by G4S With more than a dozen places to eat, the Security - 8 hrs Rideau Centre has something for everyone. Night Security will patrol hallways each After lunch, the students may be permitted evening between 10:00pm - 6:00am (Number some time to explore the mall. of Guard(s): 2) Duration: 45 minutes Day Two - Thursday June 13, 2019 Address: 50 Rideau Street, Ottawa, Ontario, 8:45 AM As a group, walk to your next activity. K1N 9J7 Phone: 613-236-6565 9:00 AM Buffet breakfast at Tuckers Marketplace 1:15 PM Board your motor coach and depart for your MENU: Cereals, scrambled eggs, bacon, hash next activity. browns, French toast, fruit salad, pancakes, fruit and chocolate chip toppings, either apple or orange juice, coffee or tea.

Duration: 60 minutes Address: 61 York Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 5T2 Phone: 613-241-6525

@brightsparkcanada Quote: 19-29149/1 | May 22, 2019 | Tour Consultant: Jennifer Holden | Page 2 of 4 FINAL ITINERARY St. Marguerite d'Youville - Grade 8 Halton Catholic District School Board Tour ID: 19-29149/1, Ottawa June 12 to 14, 2019 BUS 2 1:30 PM Guided Tour at the Supreme Court of Canada 6:00 PM Board your motor coach and depart for your This tour will familiarize you with all Canadian next activity. judicial system and how decisions made by the Supreme Court Justices affect all Canadians. 6:30 PM Brightspark Gala at Lago Subject to availability, your students will Enjoy a delicious dinner before joining in our participate in a Mock Trial, where they will Sparktacular dance party featuring our play judge and jury to learn the process interactive DJ. BUFFET MENU: Assorted firsthand. artisan breads, tender field greens topped with fresh seasonal vegetables, caesar salad Duration: 45 minutes with crisp romaine, bacon bits and grated Address: parmesan cheese, homemade vinaigrettes and 301 Wellington Street (at Kent Street), dressings, chef's choice of seasonal Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0J1 vegetables, oven roasted garlic and rosemary Phone: 613-995-5361 Ext: 1 >1 spiced mini potatoes, boneless skinless 2:15 PM Board your motor coach and depart for your chicken breast with maple apple bourbon bbq next activity. sauce, chef choice of pasta with tomato sauce, beverage, dessert. 2:30 PM Visit the National Holocaust Monument Unveiled in the Fall of 2017 the National Duration: 180 minutes Holocaust Monument is located across the Address: Dows Lake Pavilion, street from the Canadian War Museum. The 1001 Queen Elizabeth Driveway, Ottawa, Memorial serves as a symbol of Canadian Ontario, K1S 5K7 values and diversity, and as a memorial to the Phone: 613-235-5246 innocent men, women and children who 9:30 PM Board your motor coach and return to your perished during the Holocaust. accommodations.

3:00 PM Visit the Canadian War Museum Day Three - Friday June 14, 2019 Wander through the halls to see the museum’s 7:30 AM Hotel Check Out award-winning architecture, its collection of Check out of your accommodations and store war art and its large military vehicles. This your luggage to be picked up later in the day. stunning structure, on the banks of the Ottawa River, houses the largest military history collection in Canada and spans the period 8:00 AM As a group, depart on foot for your next from The Seven Years’ War to the present. activity. NOTE: Group will also attend a theatrical orientation at 3:10pm. 8:15 AM Buffet breakfast at Tuckers Marketplace MENU: Cereals, scrambled eggs, bacon, hash Duration: 90 minutes browns, French toast, fruit salad, pancakes, Address: 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, fruit and chocolate chip toppings, either apple K1R 1C2 or orange juice, coffee or tea. Phone: 819-776-7000 4:30 PM Board your motor coach and return to your Duration: 60 minutes accommodations to refresh for this evening's Address: 61 York Street, Ottawa, Ontario, activities. K1N 5T2 Phone: 613-241-6525 With the help of your specialized Tour Leader, 9:15 AM Board your motor coach and depart for your consult The Adventure leader board to see next activity. which teams are ahead before continuing with the next challenges or activities.

@brightsparkcanada Quote: 19-29149/1 | May 22, 2019 | Tour Consultant: Jennifer Holden | Page 3 of 4 FINAL ITINERARY St. Marguerite d'Youville - Grade 8 Halton Catholic District School Board Tour ID: 19-29149/1, Ottawa June 12 to 14, 2019 BUS 2 9:45 AM The Heist at the Canadian Museum of Nature Congratulations on completing The Adventure. In the nation’s capital, a heavily guarded gem Your specialized Tour Leader will reveal the stone has been stolen! Students will learn final leader board, announce the winners and about potential suspects from their Tour award prizes! Leader, then will work together in groups to look for clues throughout the museum. Will 9:00 PM Welcome Home! your group solve the mystery? NOTE: Address Approximate time of arrival at your school. - 240 McLeod Street (at Metcalfe) Ottawa, K1P 6P4. Phone Number - 613-566-4701.

Duration: 75 minutes Emergency Phone Numbers: 416-486-6440 or 1-800- Address: 267-6425. After Hours (Emergency Only): Dial please refer to above mentioned location number above and listen for the emergency extension Phone: N/A number listed in the message. 11:00 AM Board your motor coach and depart for your next activity.

11:30 AM Visit Notre Dame Basilica Officially recognized as an historic monument, Notre Dame Basilica is the oldest surviving church in Ottawa. It stands on the site that was occupied by the first Catholic chapel open to both anglophones and francophones of Bytown.

Duration: 45 minutes Address: 385 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 5H5 Phone: 613-241-7496 12:15 PM As a group, walk to your next activity.

12:30 PM The Byward Market Time to have lunch at your own cost and explore one of Canada's oldest and largest public markets. The legendary builder of the Rideau Canal, Lieutenant Colonel John By, laid out the plan for the Market. Within its streets, you will find museums, cafés, specialty food shops, boutiques, restaurants and more.

Duration: 60 minutes Address: 55 Byward Market Square, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 9C3 Phone: 613-562-3325 1:30 PM Board your motor coach and depart for hotel to pick up your luggage and load onto your motor coach upon arrival.

2:30 PM Board your motor coach and depart for home. Appropriate rest and meal stops will be made en route.

@brightsparkcanada Quote: 19-29149/1 | May 22, 2019 | Tour Consultant: Jennifer Holden | Page 4 of 4