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Move over, Google, there’s a new sheriff in town.
The scavenger hunt that had teams of Ottawans hoofing and busing from Hintonburg to Parliament Hill, the ByWard Market and the Glebe on Sunday proved popular enough to set a Guinness World Record.
The previous record for the world‘s largest scavenger hunt was 2,079, set in 2014 by a Google-sponsored hunt in Provo, Utah. On Sunday, 2,733 people successfully completed Ottawa’s event, which was put on by Escape Manor as part of the Ottawa2017 celebrations, enshrining O-Town’s well-deserved place in the scavenger-hunt firmament.
“I may contact Google and challenge them to top this,” organizer and Escape Manor co-owner Steve Wilson said, “and we can just go back and forth.” (According to Wilson, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson asked him to repeat the hunt next year.)
The hunt began at 9 a.m. at city hall’s Marion Dewar Plaza with 3,600 registered hunters in teams of four. Guided by placemat-sized maps and their wits, they headed to the aforementioned neighbourhoods plus Little Italy, Chinatown, Sparks Street and Centretown. Along the way, they had to answer trivia questions and collect as many of the 150 listed photos and videos as they could, including pictures with a caribou and a Canadian two-dollar bill and a video showing four strangers playing leapfrog.
The Ultimate Canadian, aka Don Estabrook, took part Sunday’s scavenger hunt.
Participants were encouraged to wear costumes for the occasion, and a large number did, especially if you consider dressing up as Senators, Blue Jays, Habs, Redblacks or Raptors fans a costume. Apart from that, there had been enough creative trips made to various costume departments and tickle trunks to encourage people-watching, including a squad of Mike Myers/Wayne’s World lookalikes, the red-white-and-blue-clad Wonder Woman Wannabes, lumberjacks and a woodworking shop teacher’s handful of squid (that’s four, by the way).
One particularly Canada 150-themed foursome dressed as Sir John A. Macdonald, a beaver, a maple tree and a Canada flag, calling themselves The Eh Team. The flag and the former PM, aka Angelina Ouimet and Pierre Viau, were celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary.
“We thought this would be a fun way to celebrate Canada’s 150th and our sixth,” said Angelina Ouimet, the flag.
There were points to be accumulated and prizes to be won, but, judging from the roughly 1.8 per cent of participants randomly polled, none cared a sous about winning. One team comprising teachers from École Élémentaire Publique Kanata admitted their only real competitive goal was to beat another team of teachers from École Élémentaire Publique Kanata.
Others, like Annie Belanger, who celebrated her 31st birthday by dressing as a unicorn in a taffeta tutu, were delighted simply to get their names (sort of) into the Guinness record book. “Now THAT’s off my bucket list,” Belanger said before admitting that it only got on her bucket list earlier in the day.
The best team costume went to a family of zombies (Brandon and Karen Dsjardins, Sherry Arbic and Tanya Van Waard), while Don Estabrook, aka The Ultimate Canadian, claimed top solo male outfit and might have received a prize for best attitude had one been awarded.
“Why did I do this? To celebrate Canada 150,” he said. It’s a blast. Why wouldn’t you do it is the better question.
“Everyone says Ottawa is boring, and just this whole year especially … The crowds that came out for Canada Day, the crowds that came out for La Machine, the crowd here, being part of fighting that stereotype is great.
“No, Ottawa is not boring; there’s lots of stuff to do here.”
bdeachman@postmedia.com
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The scavenger hunt that had teams of Ottawans hoofing and busing from Hintonburg to Parliament Hill, the ByWard Market and the Glebe on Sunday proved popular enough to set a Guinness World Record.
The previous record for the world‘s largest scavenger hunt was 2,079, set in 2014 by a Google-sponsored hunt in Provo, Utah. On Sunday, 2,733 people successfully completed Ottawa’s event, which was put on by Escape Manor as part of the Ottawa2017 celebrations, enshrining O-Town’s well-deserved place in the scavenger-hunt firmament.
“I may contact Google and challenge them to top this,” organizer and Escape Manor co-owner Steve Wilson said, “and we can just go back and forth.” (According to Wilson, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson asked him to repeat the hunt next year.)
The hunt began at 9 a.m. at city hall’s Marion Dewar Plaza with 3,600 registered hunters in teams of four. Guided by placemat-sized maps and their wits, they headed to the aforementioned neighbourhoods plus Little Italy, Chinatown, Sparks Street and Centretown. Along the way, they had to answer trivia questions and collect as many of the 150 listed photos and videos as they could, including pictures with a caribou and a Canadian two-dollar bill and a video showing four strangers playing leapfrog.
The Ultimate Canadian, aka Don Estabrook, took part Sunday’s scavenger hunt.
Participants were encouraged to wear costumes for the occasion, and a large number did, especially if you consider dressing up as Senators, Blue Jays, Habs, Redblacks or Raptors fans a costume. Apart from that, there had been enough creative trips made to various costume departments and tickle trunks to encourage people-watching, including a squad of Mike Myers/Wayne’s World lookalikes, the red-white-and-blue-clad Wonder Woman Wannabes, lumberjacks and a woodworking shop teacher’s handful of squid (that’s four, by the way).
One particularly Canada 150-themed foursome dressed as Sir John A. Macdonald, a beaver, a maple tree and a Canada flag, calling themselves The Eh Team. The flag and the former PM, aka Angelina Ouimet and Pierre Viau, were celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary.
“We thought this would be a fun way to celebrate Canada’s 150th and our sixth,” said Angelina Ouimet, the flag.
There were points to be accumulated and prizes to be won, but, judging from the roughly 1.8 per cent of participants randomly polled, none cared a sous about winning. One team comprising teachers from École Élémentaire Publique Kanata admitted their only real competitive goal was to beat another team of teachers from École Élémentaire Publique Kanata.
Others, like Annie Belanger, who celebrated her 31st birthday by dressing as a unicorn in a taffeta tutu, were delighted simply to get their names (sort of) into the Guinness record book. “Now THAT’s off my bucket list,” Belanger said before admitting that it only got on her bucket list earlier in the day.
The best team costume went to a family of zombies (Brandon and Karen Dsjardins, Sherry Arbic and Tanya Van Waard), while Don Estabrook, aka The Ultimate Canadian, claimed top solo male outfit and might have received a prize for best attitude had one been awarded.
“Why did I do this? To celebrate Canada 150,” he said. It’s a blast. Why wouldn’t you do it is the better question.
“Everyone says Ottawa is boring, and just this whole year especially … The crowds that came out for Canada Day, the crowds that came out for La Machine, the crowd here, being part of fighting that stereotype is great.
“No, Ottawa is not boring; there’s lots of stuff to do here.”
bdeachman@postmedia.com
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