River taxis are a hot ticket in a sizzling Ottawa summer | Ottawa

As I steered the 24-foot, 12-seat water taxi towards the dock outside the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau last week, I turned to Lara-May Baumann — technically the captain of the vessel despite the fact that I was at the helm — and asked if she wouldn’t mind docking the boat. I’d had a couple of practice runs doing it without passengers, but they weren’t the smoothest of transitions, and I didn’t want the pair of brochure-clutching tourists I was now responsible for ferrying across the Ottawa River to be left: a) with a poor impression of our city simply because of an ungainly landing on my part; or b) soaked. Read More