The journey to La Cité Golf Club begins at Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW), roughly an hour's drive east through the bilingual borderlands where Ontario meets Quebec. The route follows the Ottawa River corridor, transitioning from capital city sprawl to the gentler agricultural patchwork of Prescott and Russell Counties, where roadside signs shift seamlessly between English and French. As you approach Hawkesbury, the landscape flattens into river valley terrain, and the final turn reveals the club's grounds tucked along the north shore - a quietly refined retreat where the rhythms of francophone Eastern Ontario set the tone before the first tee.