{"id":794321,"date":"2026-07-11T04:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/794321\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T04:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:59:45","slug":"new-swimming-dock-opens-near-history-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/794321\/","title":{"rendered":"New swimming dock opens near history museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The National Capital Commission (NCC) has opened its second new Ottawa River swimming dock this summer.<\/p>\n

A promised dock near the Canadian Museum of History in downtown Gatineau, Que., has opened, the NCC said Friday. <\/p>\n

The dock is accessible for unsupervised swimming from dawn until dusk, the NCC said. Water testing results will be published on Swim Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Swimming started at the East Dock near the Ottawa Locks on the Ontario side of the river last month.<\/p>\n

Those two docks join those at the River House near Rockcliffe Park,\u00a0which opened in 2023<\/a>, and the Dow’s Lake dock on the Rideau Canal\u00a0that made its debut last year.<\/a><\/p>\n

The NCC has long operated beaches in the region.<\/p>\n

The federal Crown corporation has been focusing<\/a>\u00a0on bringing more activities to the Ottawa, Gatineau and Rideau river shorelines, saying they had been underused for years. <\/p>\n

WATCH | Coverage of the new docks from last month:\"\"<\/p>\n

Two new places to swim in the heart of the National Capital Region<\/p>\n

The National Capital Commission has announced the opening of two new swimming holes along the Ottawa River: one near the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau and one near Major’s Hill Park in Ottawa. Natalia Goodwin has the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-794321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}