Visiting Manotick's Mill

Not many Canadian communities can boast of having a working grist mill...

But we have one in Ottawa, in the village of Manotick - now within our city limits.

It's open in summer.

Flour is milled and sold...

... and a popular by-product sold as duck chow.

A mill is a dusty place, with flour and chaff in the air.

This gives summer workers - dressed in period costumes - work to do, trying to keep it clean.