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Ottawa

noun

A member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario.

A river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal. Synonyms: Ottawa river, Outaouais.

The capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec). Synonyms: Canadian capital, capital of Canada.

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... with Lake Ontario by a series of twenty-seven locks with a drop of three hundred feet in twenty-six miles. This undertaking prepared the way for the subsequent opening of the St. Lawrence canal system (183 miles) and of the Rideau system by way of the Ottawa River (246 miles). There was thus provided an ocean outlet to the north, although it was not until 1856 that an American vessel reached London by way ...

— The Paths of Inland Commerce - A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway, Volume 21 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Archer B. Hulbert

... by a resolution of the Senate at the last session of Congress, in the boundaries of the land granted by the Chicago treaty of 1833 to the united nation of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatamie Indians, has received their assent under certain modifications, specified in their agreement of the 1st ...

— Impressions of America - During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. • Tyrone Power

... Parliament in the year 1890, by John Lovell & Son, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture and Statistics at Ottawa. ...

— April's Lady - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

... accordance with this arrangement This "perambulating system" was tried for several years, but it proved so inconvenient and expensive that the legislature in 1858 passed an address to Her Majesty praying her to choose a permanent capital. The place selected was the city of Ottawa, on account of its situation on the frontier of the two provinces, the almost equal division of its population into French and English, its remoteness from the American borders, and consequently its ...

— Lord Elgin • John George Bourinot

... Adams, "Rural Planning and Development." Canada Commission of Conservation, Ottawa, 1917, ...

— The Farmer and His Community • Dwight Sanderson

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