Ottawa: January 16, 2016; trying to get the iconic shot

An iconic shot of Ottawa

Is there an iconic shot of Ottawa? While visiting other cities earlier on my sabbatical, I tried getting what would be considered definitive skyline shots of each of the cities. Does Ottawa have an equivalent?  Is it this?

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Parliament in the middle, Gatineau to the right, the Fairmont Chateau Laurier on the left.
Using my panorama setting. January 16, 2016 at 7:45 AM.  f/4, 1/60 at ISO 400.  

Or is this all that's required?

Ottawa: January 15, 2016; man, it's cold, and Parliament

I'm in Ottawa--a small trip before I go to Hawaii in just over two weeks. It is freezing here. Around -10 degrees celsius, with a wind chill in the minus teens. It's supposed to warm up overnight and get just above freezing tomorrow. I had forgotten how cold it gets here, and it makes me embarrassed at how I was complaining about the "cold" in Nashville and Austin, like here, and here.

I look forward to the day in a few weeks when I complain about the "cold" day in Hawaii when it is only 20 degrees celsius....

As always, click on the photos to enlarge....

Ghosts during the tour of Parliament

Well, as anyone who has been reading this knows, I enjoy a good legislature or state capitol building. So after arriving, I decided to take the tour of Parliament.  I went to school in Ottawa, but hadn't visited Parliament since I was a kid.  While on the tour, this guy walked right by us:

Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.  Ever the politician,
he stopped to shake hands with the tour group. I asked him whether
he had anything better to do than just wander around Parliament and
talk to people. I actually said nothing of the sort....