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Ottawa   /ˈɑtəwˌɑ/   Listen
Ottawa

noun
1.
A member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario.
2.
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.
3.
The capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec).  Synonyms: Canadian capital, capital of Canada.



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"Ottawa" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Act of Parliament in the year 1890, by John Lovell & Son, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture and Statistics at Ottawa. ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... was quite willing to go to the Ottawa House. He had never fared luxuriously, and he had no doubt that even at the Ottawa House he should live better than ...
— Struggling Upward - or Luke Larkin's Luck • Horatio Alger

... Island, British Columbia, Manitoba, Keewatin, Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Athabasca, each with its own Parliament, are united under the Dominion Government; the Governor-General is the Viceroy of the Queen; the Dominion Parliament meets at Ottawa, the federal capital; nearly every province has its university, that of Toronto being the most important; the largest town is Montreal; Toronto, Quebec, Hamilton, and Halifax are all larger than the capital; taken possession of ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... account, certain it is that our orators were too much absorbed in the good done by men and for men, to once recur to the valuable aid, self-denying patriotism and lofty virtues of the nation's unrepresented women. There were a few exceptions: Col. Wm. M. Ferry, of Ottawa county, Michigan, in his historical address delivered in that county, July Fourth, took pains to make favorable mention of the daughter of one ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... a paper ('Transactions of the Ottawa Academy of Natural Sciences,' 1868, by John D. Caton, late Chief Justice of Illinois.) by Judge Caton, of which my father often ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin


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