The sun sets through the Maman sculpture in front of National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa Sunday April 29, 2012. Created by artist Louise Bourgeois as a part of her inaugural commission of The Unilever Series in 1999 for Tate Modern Museum's vast Turbine Hall, "Maman" is over 30ft high and over 33ft wide.
Statue of Samuel de Champlain is silhouetted against a setting sun at Nepean Point in Ottawa April 29, 2012. A French navigator, "The Father of New France" was a cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler who founded New France and Quebec City.
