1. Musée Bytown (Bytown Museum)

The Bytown museum is a small, quaint local museum run by the local historical society that presents the history of the town itself, to me it provides a refreshing contrast to the other government run museums in the city, much less glitzy with a very small town homey feeling The ground floor of the museum is free, it contains the gift shop and a static exhibit of artifacts from the construction of the canal and a small "theatre" when you can view a video of the history of the construction of the Canal. Admission to the two upper floors is C$5 (not $2.25) they contain a number of small exhibits about the history of the area, at present the focus of the second floor is on the contributions of various ethnic groups to the city's history, there are displays regarding the earliest Jewish, Lebanese, Irish, Italian and Chinese families to come to the city. The rest of the museum is given over to personal artifacts of Colonel By and general artifacts of the cities history.