Ottawa city.Capital of Canada - статья по прочим предметам

 

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  • Ottawa is served by both of Canada's major railroads and several airlines.
  • (1991) city, 313,987; Ottawa-Hull metropolitan area, 920,857.
  • In 1855 Bytown was incorporated and rechristened Ottawa after the Indian tribe.
  • There is bus service throughout the city.
  • Navigation on the Ottawa and Rideau rivers, except for pleasure craft, is a thing of the past.
  • The major cultural centres remain the city's three universities.
  • Its metropolitan area lies astride the Ontario-Quebec border.
  • The rivers served as passageways for explorers and traders over the following two centuries.
  • It was hastened by the arrival in 1826 of Lt. Col.
  • John By of the Royal Engineers to work on canalizing the river, and the town became Bytown.
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