30年前的Ottawa,比现在少几栋高楼、少几个居民区、没有加长公共汽车而已。
中国的变化是天翻地覆。
Ottawa in the 1980s
This decade saw the Capital assume its role as the cultural showcase for the nation. New festivals such as Winterlude, the Canadian Tulip Festival and the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival were launched; the National Arts Centre Orchestra developed into one of the world's pre-eminent orchestras; and new museums and galleries rose throughout the city.
Two new buildings, in particular, captured people's imaginations. The National Gallery of Canada, inaugurated in 1988, now houses the most comprehensive collection in the world of Canadian art as well as masterpieces from Europe, Asia and the Americas. The Canadian Museum of Civilization, opened the following year, traces Canada's intriguing history from prehistoric times to the present. Visitors come face-to-face with longhouses and totem poles, life-size reconstructions of historic Canadian scenes and larger-than-life movies in the museum's OMNIMAX and IMAX theatre.