You don't have to walk far to find signs of normality returning to Ottawa.
The lunchtime queues at the food truck, just a block from the scene of Wednesday's terrorist rampage, were like those on any other day.
"We had to come back, everyone had to come back," the driver told me.
As the carpet of flowers, tributes and patriotic messages grows at the war memorial where Corporal Nathan Cirillo died, it was business as usual in offices in the downtown streets nearby.
"Today we wake up, it is a new day and we don't want to let them win," said a man taking a cigarette break outside the Parliament Pub.
"We're going to go on and keep our freedom. This is what we're about."
A passing restaurant worker, who said he was an immigrant, added: "We thought that today we'd have no customers, but it was so busy and I was shocked that we had so many customers.
"Everyone was okay about it, they were not nervous. Maybe it has something to do with the character of the people here because this is how they are - they can forgive things."
And Justin Trudeau, son of Canada's longest serving prime minister and himself now a Liberal Party MP, stopped to tell Sky News that the country's traditions of peace and freedom would prevail.
The only physical impact for many residents of Canada's capital was a backlog on the buses as they tried to negotiate a city with many roads closed.
At the city centre bus stops, they scroll through news updates on their phones.
But beneath the surface the spirit of "Keep Calm and Carry On" hides more that a little edginess.
It was a telling moment of the tension in this city that, even as roads around parliament were opened up by police, a significant presence of officers moved in to maintain security.
Privately, some people do admit that they feel uncertain, that they wonder what is around the corner after two terrorist attacks in three days left two soldiers dead.
Nobody mentions Canada losing its innocence. Some do openly recognise that the country's decision to enter the fight against Islamic State has changed the game at home.
In shops and on building sites, overheard conversations on the streets of Ottawa reveal that this week's events are all anyone is talking about.
"Things will change," they say. But nobody is quite sure how.
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