During the Cold War, Canada must have felt like the meat in the sandwich - being situated between the Soviet Union and the USA. So they built a number of bunkers for their politicians and others that would withstand a nuclear bomb a kilometre away. The Diefenbunker near Ottawa has been turned into a museum, and you can wander through its four floors and get throughly lost. The rooms include equipment from the bunkers such as teletypes, furniture... The rooms are mocked up in their original purpose. And it is a place worthy of Get Smart.
I got lost on the way to the museum and went a lot further on, so I visited another closed park - Fitzroy Provincial Park, which is on the Ottawa River and even has a beach.
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