Found a good spot on the mooring wall as people moved on this morning, plan to stay one or more days here and touch base with old friends, also need a run ashore for provisions. We have electrical supplied here but no water.
Saw the beginning of the changing of the guard ceremony on Parliament Hill, the troop marches past the canal on their way to the hill so we got a preview.
Have made our provisioning run and are now good to go for another two weeks, should be in Kingston by then. Dinner ashore with old friends tonight, of in the morning after rush hour (bridges don’t open for us when road traffic is heavy).
Off down that way.
Boadicea's Chariot 
There’s a lifting road-bridge across a sound near us, accessing the nearest town and pretty busy as local roads go. However the operator seems to delight in opening it for the odd yacht or tallish motor craft at the busiest times. Very frustrating.
PS does the Gallic Tendency allow the parliament to be guarded by such troops in unashamedly British bearskins and stuff? 🙂
Janus: there is a Rue Elizabeth II in Québec-ville and Edward/Alexandra Quays in Montréal as well as other grudging acknowledgements of history of Canada as part of the British Empire and later British Commonwealth. At the same time, unlike the rest of Canada which largely knows how to spell correctly, they use the misspellings preferred by the country just south of Canada. I guess they have to get their digs in somehow!
Oh lord, those bear skins in this heat!