DRONE PHOTOGRAPHY - A Morning With The Ottawa Rowing Club - DJI Phantom

Описание: Aerial photography filmed with a DJI Phantom 3 Advanced. The Ottawa Rowing Club is the oldest rowing club in Canada. It was founded on 6 June 1867, the same year as the Canadian Confederation. One of its founders and first patron, Sir John A. Macdonald, was Canada’s first prime minister. In early 1870s, the ORC ceased to exist before being re-introduced on 25 June 1875. The original club house was a wooden building, initially built on pontoons, and moored to the shore of the Ottawa river at the foot of parliament hill, between the Rideau canal and the Chaudière falls. Whilst the view from the club house over the Chaudière falls was picturesque, the rowing conditions were difficult: vast field of sawdust and other refuse from an immense lumber mill situated about the falls, and logs escaping from the booms. Each spring, along with the melting ice, the club house floated downstream and came aground. Every year it was brought back up near the Rideau canal. In 1884 and 1885, the club house suffered important damage when it sank. In spring 1896, the members of the Club decided to purchase a piece of the river front property at 10 Lady Grey Drive and leave the club house in its current, permanent location. An addition (the present boat house) was added to the original building. The club is just west of and below Sir John A. Macdonald's home Earnscliffe that is now the residence of the Britain's High Commissioner to Canada. With close to 1000 members, the Ottawa Rowing Club is one of the largest clubs in Canada.