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37 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.

Alejandro Abellan

Alejandro Abellan (born May 13, 1965, Ottawa) is a Canadian film and television actor.

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.

Brittania Beach

Britannia, Ottawa - a westend suburban community of Ottawa, Ontario

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 D. Neff

He was the first in his family to attend college, starting at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas, eventually finishing with a BS in Economics from Central Missouri State Teachers College.

Charles N. Haskell

In his work as an attorney, Haskell became one of the most successful lawyers in Ottawa, Ohio, the county seat, as well as one of the most prominent members of the Democratic Party in northwestern Ohio.

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.

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.

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.

Frederic Zook

Previous to that, Zook was a Dean of Students and faculty member of the campus in Ottawa, Kansas.

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.

Funny Bunnies

Funny Bunnies was first published in March 2006 in The Ottawa Herald of Ottawa, Kansas and is now available on the Ottawa Herald's website and on its own official website.

George F. Le Feuvre

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

Giorgos Sikeliotis

From then until his death in Athens in 1984, he took part in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including Ottawa, Rome, Toronto, Montreal, Alexandria, Helsinki and New York, where he had a solo exhibition in 1965 and was nominated for a Guggenheim award.

Gojko Šušak

They had two daughters, Katarina and Jelena, and a son named Tomislav, and the whole family lived in Ottawa.

Jerome Liebling

His photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Jewish Museum in New York, and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

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.

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

Maple Rapids, Michigan

In the early 19th-century Maple Rapids was a site where Maketoquit and his large band of Ottawa processed maple sugar, although their main base was further east in modern Shiawassee County, Michigan.

Margaret Wade Labarge

They moved to Canada, and she spent most of her later years in Ottawa, where the couple had two daughters and two sons.

Neil M. Colgan

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

Occupy Ottawa

It finally converged on the United States Embassy on Sussex Drive to express solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, and protest the eviction and police brutality the movement faced at the time.

Ottawa Athletics

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

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.

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."

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.

Ulmus 'Rosehill'

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

Ypresiomyrma

The holotype part and counterpart are included in the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa collections as GSC 127632a and GSC 127632b.


36th Grey Cup

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

61st Grey Cup

Ottawa Defensive End Charlie Brandon was named Most Valuable Player and Garry Lefebvre was named Most Valuable Canadian.

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.

Autostade

Ottawa's Russ Jackson and Frank Clair ended their Hall of Fame careers with a 29-11 win over Saskatchewan.

Bruce Racine

Bruce played his youth hockey in the Ottawa Valley and spent one season in the CJHL with the Hawkesbury Hawks before joining Northeastern University where he was a two-time All-American, He set school records for games played, minutes played and wins leading the Huskies to Beanpot Championships in 1985 and 1988 and a Hockey East Championship in 1988.

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.

Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball

Barring any unforeseen troubles, this would mark a return to Ottawa for the first time since the Ottawa Rapidz played in 2008.

Carillon Generating Station

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

Château Laurier

Château Laurier was commissioned by Grand Trunk Railway president Charles Melville Hays, and was constructed for $2 million, between 1909 and 1912 in tandem with Ottawa's downtown Union Station (now the Government Conference Centre) across the street.

CJSB

CKQB-FM, a radio station (106.9 FM) licensed to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CJSB from 1982 to 1994

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.

Downtown Ottawa

It will include 3 subway stations; one between Lyon and Kent Streets, integrated with Place de Ville, the next station will be built between O'Connor Street and Metcalfe Street and one under Rideau Street with multiple entrances in the Rideau Centre.

Elissa Lansdell

She then began working in front of the camera, reporting on weather at The Weather Network in Toronto and The New RO in Ottawa.

Eve, the Serpent and Death

Eve, the Serpent and Death (or Eve, the Serpent, and Adam as Death) is a painting by the German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung, housed in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Fairness is a Two-Way Street Act

Both sides of the Ontario-Quebec border are highly populated with major population centres on both sides - Ottawa and Cornwall on the Ontario side, and Montreal and Hull on the Quebec side.

Fred Chittick

He played seven seasons for Ottawa, before retiring from play after the 1901 season, the season in which Ottawa won the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (successor from AHAC) championship.

Frederic Erskine Bronson

Frederic Erskine Bronson, PC (December 4, 1886 – April 1953) was a leading Ottawa businessman and chairman of the Federal District Commission, forerunner of the National Capital Commission, a government body empowered with planning Canada's National Capital Region of Ottawa-Hull and Gatineau.

George Harrison Dunbar

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

Jeff Sarwer

Jeff used to entertain large crowds by playing 40 people at the same time known as simultaneous chess, every Canada Day from the age of 7 on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

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 Cheveldayoff

Educated at Carleton University in Ottawa, University of Saskatchewan, and Newport University in Southern California, Cheveldayoff holds a B.A. (Honours) in Economics and Political Science (1988) and a Masters of Business Administration (1996).

Larry Regan

Lawrence Emmett Regan (b. August 9, 1930 in North Bay, Ontario - d. March 9, 2009 in Ottawa, Ontario), was a retired Canadian National Hockey League(NHL) professional ice hockey player and hockey executive.

Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies

In September 1990, the Sheptytsky Institute moved to Ottawa, and in May 1992 became an academic unit of the Faculty of Theology at Saint Paul University.

Mike Shaver

Shaver attended high school at Lisgar Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, where he began working with Ingenia Communications Corporation, an Ottawa-area computer consultancy that later dissolved.

Montréal Québec Temple

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

MyFax

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

Nelofer Pazira

Nelofer holds a degree in Journalism and English Literature from Carleton University (Ottawa), and an master's degree in Anthropology/Sociology and Religion from Concordia University (Montreal).

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.

O.P. Dwivedi

He was a past president of the Canadian Political Science Association (Ottawa), president of the Canadian Asian Studies Association (Montreal), and a former Vice President of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration, Brussels, Belgium.

Ottawa Giants

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

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.

Ottawa-Carleton Educational Space Simulation

The current incarnation of the Habitat, composed entirely of drywall with metal supports, is made up of seven modules: the Control Room, Interlock, Longhouse, Hotlab, Washroom, Engineering Closet, and Airlock.

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.

Paul Dewar

He has also been actively involved with the Coalition for a Healthy Ottawa, the Partnership for a Pesticide Bylaw, the Old Ottawa East Community Association, and Fair Vote Canada, and he has served on the board of directors of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization.

Percy Sparks

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

Pierz

Francis Xavier Pierz, Roman Catholic missionary to the Ottawa and Ojibwa Indians

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.

Power Holding Company of Nigeria

In 2007, the Bureau of Public Enterprises hired CPCS Transcom Limited, an international consulting firm based in Ottawa, Ontario, to provide advice about the best ways to move forward with the privatization of the country's 11 distribution companies and the 6 generation companies.

Sparks Street

The street also became Ottawa's commercial hub and was home to a number of the city's banks and the lumber companies of the Ottawa Valley.

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.

Thomas G. Fuller

Capt Thomas G Fuller ran Thomas Fuller Construction, which built the Ottawa Police Service headquarters, Ottawa General Hospital, Ottawa Congress Center, the Varette Building (1982) on Albert Street, and Standard Life's twin towers on Laurier Avenue.

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.