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43 unusual facts about Ottawa


Albert Edwin Honeywell

He was born in Ottawa, the son of Ira Honeywell and Sarah Nelson, the former one of the first settlers in Nepean Township.

Beechwood Avenue

It runs a short distance to Beechwood Cemetery, where it becomes Hemlock Road which runs east until past the Aviation Parkway near the Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport.

Bruce Hutchison

He married Dorothy Kidd McDiarmid in 1925, around the same time that he began his journalism career as a political reporter in Ottawa.

Bulgarian National Front

In Canada the BNF gained attention for the protests it held in Toronto in 1971 against a visit by Alexei Kosygin, a rally held in Ottawa in 1976 and annual masses held on 9 September, the date of the establishment of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, to commemorate Bulgarian war dead.

Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

To assist them in their pastoral work, the bishops have established a permanent bilingual secretariat in Ottawa, which includes various offices and services.

Charles Beaubien

Nevertheless, there is some evidence that Beaubien, while on a trip to Kaskaskia with the Wea, warned George Rogers Clark of an Ottawa plot to kill him.

Charles Berkeley Powell

He represented Ottawa in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1898 to 1904 as a Conservative member.

Christopher Levenson

Levenson lived in the Netherlands and Germany, before moving to Ottawa in 1968.

Cognos Reportnet

ReportNet is developed by Canada’s Ottawa based business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions company Cognos (formerly Cognos Incorporated), an IBM company.

Columbus Red Birds

Columbus immediately gained a new AAA team when the Ottawa franchise of the International League began playing there in 1955.

Cyprien Tanguay

A plaque marks the site of the house in which he lived in the Lower Town area of Ottawa not far from the National Art Gallery and the Byward Market.

Dave Dallas

Dave Dallas was the 25th head football coach for the Ottawa University Braves located in Ottawa, Kansas and he held that position for eight seasons, from 1989 until 1996.

Disgorge Mexico

The instruments were recorded from the 6th to the 17th of August 2007 at Liverpool Court Studios in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Don Harrison

Harrison, a native of Ottawa, Kansas, spent over three decades in the broadcast business.

Erwin Kreyszig

Erwin O. Kreyszig (January 6, 1922 in Pirna, Germany – December 12, 2008) was a Professor of Mathematics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Prior to joining Carleton University in 1984, he held positions at Stanford University (1954/55), the University of Ottawa (1955/56), Ohio State University (1956–60, professor 1957) and he completed his habilitation at the University of Mainz.

Fallingbrook

Fallingbrook, Ottawa, a neighborhood in the community of Orléans, in the city of Ottawa

Frederick John French

French studied law in Ottawa and Toronto, was called to the bar in 1870 and set up practice in Prescott, also working in Ottawa.

George F. Le Feuvre

Unable to find a civil service post in Quebec, George joined the civil service in Ottawa.

Girard incident

Specialist Third Class Girard, a 21-year-old enlisted man from Ottawa, Illinois, used a grenade launcher mounted on an M1 rifle to fire an empty casing at Sakai, which killed her.

Gloucester City

Gloucester City, Ontario: a former city in Ontario, amalgamated into the City of Ottawa in 2001.

Jean Talon

The Jean Talon Building (Building 5) in Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario (a Statistics Canada building, so named because Jean Talon conducted the first census in what is now Canada)

Kazakhstan men's national junior ice hockey team

Kazakhstan boosted plenty of returning players from 2008 upon coming to Ottawa, Canada, to compete in the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Late Night Counsell

Late Night Counsell or LNC is a late night conservative talk show hosted by John Counsell on the radio station CFRA in Ottawa, Ontario.

Lloyd Lozes Goff

His works are also on display at the Federal Buildings in Cooper, Texas, and Hollis, Oklahoma, as well as the U.S. Treasury, New York City Municipal Building, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the U.S. Customs House in New York City, and the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada.

Lycée Claudel d'Ottawa

As the school is located in Canada's national capital, some Canadian politicians' children are among its alumni, including the children of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, of current Quebec Premier Jean Charest

Margaret Mick

Margaret Ann Mick (June 1, 1860 - May 25, 1925) was the first female Canadian peace officer to be killed in the line of duty, and the first woman to be added to the memorial commemorating fallen police or peace officers near Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

MyFax

MyFax is an Internet business communication tool which had been provided by the Ottawa-based software company Protus IP Solutions.

Neil M. Colgan

He is also commemorated in the Canadian Police and Peace Officer's Memorial on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Nesta Toumine

She was born Nesta Williams in Thonrhill Heath, Croydon, England, the daughter of Alfred Edward Williams and Agnes Mary Sievers, and was educated in Ottawa.

Newford

De Lint generally avoids writing about cities that he has not been to; however, his hometown of Ottawa did not afford him the necessary freedoms for certain stories, and he began to set them in an "unnamed" big city.

Ottawa Athletics

The Ottawa Athletics were a professional minor-league baseball team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that operated from 1952-1954.

Ottawa Giants

The Ottawa Giants were a professional minor-league baseball team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that operated in 1951.

Ottawa Library

The Ottawa Library is a Carnegie library located at the intersection of 5th and Main Streets in Ottawa, Kansas.

Ottawa-Carleton Educational Space Simulation

The Habitat, called the Hawking III as the third in a series of OCESS habitats named after eminent physicist Stephen Hawking, is the simulated living space for astronauts during missions.

Pikkardiyska Tertsiya

In 2001, they were headliners at the Ukrainian Festival on Bloor Street in Toronto, followed with a big concert in that city's downtown and then another concert in Ottawa.

Robert Taylor Shillington

Born in Merivale, a rural village now located within the city limits of Ottawa, in 1867, Shillington was one of ten children of Thomas and Elizabeth Shillington.

Russell County, Ontario

Cumberland Township became part of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton in 1969, and is now part of the single-tier city of Ottawa.

The Bridge at Narni

It was painted in September 1826, and was the basis for the larger and more finished View at Narni, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1827, and is now in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Trudi Williams

Representative Williams was born in Ottawa on October 22, 1953 and came to Florida in 1968.

Ulmus 'Rosehill'

The tree was later marketed by the Willis Nursery Co. of Ottawa, Kansas.

Wesley Irwin Haskett

He was born in Montreal, the son of Samuel Wesley Haskett, and was educated at Lisgar Collegiate Institute in Ottawa.

WQEW

On some nights, WQEW can be picked up loud and clear as far West as Cleveland, Ohio, where it out performs WWMK AM 1260 in its distance areas, and as far North as Ottawa, Canada.


2010 Central Canada earthquake

This earthquake occurred as Canadian environment minister Jim Prentice was conducting an interview in Ottawa, and he reported that his chair started to move.

36th Grey Cup

Calgary's Woody Strode recovered and returned it to the Ottawa eleven yard line.

Actinolite, Ontario

Greyhound express buses between Toronto and Ottawa use Actinolite's Log Cabin Restaurant as a rest stop.

Alan Nunn May

In January 1943 the Cambridge team including Nunn May transferred to the Montreal Laboratory which was building a reactor at Chalk River near Ottawa, Canada.

Aulacogen

As aulacogens remain places of weakness, given the appropriate conditions, they can reactivate into active rift valleys again, as had happened to the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben in Ontario and Quebec, Canada, an ancient aulacogen that reactivated during the breakup of Pangaea.

Bob Kudelski

Traded to Florida by Ottawa for Evgeny Davydov, Scott Levins, Florida's 6th-round choice (Mike Gaffney) in 1994 Entry Draft, and Dallas' 4th-round choice (previously acquired, Ottawa selected Kevin Bolibruck) in 1995 Entry Draft, January 6, 1994.

Bryan Ryley

His work is found in numerous private and public collections, such as, The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; Kelowna Public Art Gallery, Kelowna; Vernon Public Art Gallery; The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York; Petro Canada Collection; Shell Collection in Calgary, Alberta.

Bursey

Cathy Bursey-Sabourin, Fraser Herald at the Canadian Heraldic Authority in Ottawa, Canada

Canada and the 1960 United States presidential election

While official Ottawa leaned towards supporting Richard Nixon, the Canadian public was much more favourable to John F. Kennedy.

Carillon Generating Station

The dam also includes a modern lock that facilitates traffic up the Ottawa River, superseding the Carillon Canal.

Coat of arms of Ottawa

A royal crown alludes to Queen Victoria's choice of Ottawa as Canada's capital, while the maple leaf is the national emblem of Canada.

Corydon Partlow Brown

One of Brown's most important tasks during his time at Public Works was to convince the serving Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, that the future of Manitoba depended on the issuing of railway charters (disallowed by Ottawa).

Design U

Penny has also given many design seminars at local design shows, written a weekly design column for The Ottawa Citizen newspaper, and written numerous articles for magazines such as Ottawa Interiors and Style at Home.

Dominican University

Dominican University College a bilingual Roman Catholic university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Electric stove

Canadian inventor Thomas Ahearn filed patent number no. 39916 in 1892 for an "Electric Oven," a device he probably employed in preparing a meal for an Ottawa hotel that year.

George Harrison Dunbar

The George Dunbar Bridge which crosses the Rideau River near Carleton University in Ottawa was named in his honour.

International Guide Academy

Now IGA continues its program availability, with a course in Ottawa, Canada; Denver, Colorado; Cuernavaca, Mexico, and on board the NCL Star.

Janice Dean

Previously, she was on CHUM Limited in Ottawa where she held numerous positions such as a morning news anchor for Breakfast @ the New RO, producer and host of The Broad Perspective on CFRA and an anchor for KOOL-FM.

John Turmel

In the election, Turmel ran as an independent against Green Party leader Trevor Hancock in Toronto—Beaches, Marc Gauvin ran in Ottawa Centre, supporter Serge Girard in Ottawa—Vanier, and John and Ray’s mother, Therese Turmel ran in Ottawa West, and Ray Turmel ran as an "independent Green" in Nepean—Carleton.

Juana Muñoz-Liceras

Juana Muñoz-Liceras is Professor of Hispanic and General Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

Ken Fogarty

:For the former mayor of Ottawa, see Kenneth Hubert Fogarty

Kenny Caceros

He played for the Orange for four years before returning to Ottawa to play for the Fury's PDL club, where he played three seasons.

Lawrence Day

As a youth in Ottawa, Day came under the influence of Fedor Bohatirchuk, a strong Ukrainian International Master and doctor, who had emigrated to Canada after the Second World War.

Michael Joseph Hoeppner

He studied for the priesthood and continued his education with a JCL from St Paul's in Ottawa and a master's in Education from a Winona-area university.

Michael Pitfield

He went to Ottawa to join the civil service in 1959 where he worked as an administrative assistant to Justice Minister E. Davie Fulton.

Montréal Québec Temple

The temple serves more than 12,200 church members from the Montréal; Ottawa, Ontario; Montpelier, Vermont; and upstate New York areas.

Nepean Township, Ontario

The original town hall of the township of Nepean was located in Westboro, which became part of Ottawa in 1949.

Nick Foligno

He is an avid supporter of cancer patient care and research at Roger’s House, the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation, the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation and the Ottawa Hospital Foundation.

Nothing Special

The song got into heavy rotation at Toronto's 102.1 The Edge, and Ottawa's Live 88.5, and has reached #1 on the MuchMusic Countdown.

Ottawa Fringe Festival

Because Ottawa is a bilingual city, both English and French productions are presented at the Fringe, though a small number of productions in past years have been bilingual.

Ottawa Valley

Among the well-known people who hail from the Ottawa Valley, are former governor-general and broadcaser Adrienne Clarkson, Alanis Morissette, Margaret Atwood, Lorne Greene, Bryan Murray, Terry Murray, Frank Finnigan, Bruce Cockburn, Peter Jennings, Matthew Perry, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Redman, Tom Green, Rich Little, Paul Anka, Alan Verch and Princess Margriet, sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Pat Cochrane

Pat Cochrane was a Canadian morning radio personality (disc jockey) on CHOG (AM 640 The Hog) in Toronto, CJSB (54 Rock) in Ottawa, CFBR-FM in Edmonton, CKIK-FM in Calgary, CHIQ in Winnipeg, CHEC in Lethbridge, CKSO in Sudbury and CJOK in Fort McMurray.

Percy Sparks

Born on March 7, 1880 in Ottawa, Canada, Sparks was the great grandnephew of Ottawa pioneer Nicholas Sparks.

Peter Appleyard

Appleyard and Sinatra performed together several years later during a benefit concert in Ottawa that was arranged by Rich Little.

Philémon Yang

Yang lived in Ottawa's Grenfell Glen neighbourhood during his long stint as High Commissioner.

Postage stamps and postal history of the Bahamas

The Bahamians accomplished by overprinting 5d Staircase issues with "SPECIAL / DELIVERY" and sending them to Canada, where they were on sale in four post offices (Ottawa, Toronto, Westmount, and Winnipeg) for 10 cents each.

Ralph W. Beiting

He received the Meeker Award from Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas, in 1997; and the Lincoln Award from Northern Kentucky University in 1998, which said, "This award represents a commitment to service, fidelity to noble causes and sense of turning challenges into opportunities."

Ron Mueck

An exhibit of his work was also on view at the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa from 2 March to 6 May 2007, organized by the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (Paris), in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada, the Brooklyn Museum and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

The Guess Who

He contacted the band about participating in an advertising project for Coca-Cola; this turned out to be the recording of a split LP with Ottawa band The Staccatos (soon to rename themselves The Five Man Electrical Band).

The Prime Radicals

Produced by GAPC Entertainment of Ottawa, Ontario for TVO and distributed by Picture Box Distribution, The Prime Radicals features comedic actor and high school teacher Norm MacQueen as Uncle Norm, 12-year-old Kevin Wang as Kevin and 19-year-old Alanna Bale as Alanna.

Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony

Another version of the central panel is found in MASP in São Paulo, Brazil, while a copy by a follower of Bosch can be found in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and another version in the Prado Museum in Madrid.