Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Wakefield riverfront in Quebec Canada

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The village of Wakefield is 18 miles northwest of Ottawa on the west shore of the Gatineau River, and I seem to have been flying north up that river from Rock cliffe for years, past the village in a bend of the river just a few miles north of Cascades float base. It is where the tourist steam train goes through, and by "through" I mean that literally as the tracks are at the side of the main street, and one of the things it goes past is the Black Sheep Inn which hosts Canadian musical groups and individuals at the weekends. Though the radio in Ottawa uses the name in English it is actually and visibly called "Mouton Noir" on the sign. There is no airfield, and no float base. There aren't even all the buildings that are on the riverfront as it stretches further south and north. There is a public dock where you can tie up. Apart from the fact that the idea caught my fancy one afternoon outside the Mouton Noir I really can't think why I made this.