Ottawa


Formerly Bytown. Founded about the year 1827, and named after

Colonel By, a Royal Engineer, who built the Rideau Canal, and whose

workmen formed the nucleus of the infant town. The name was changed to

Ottawa in 1854, and Queen Victoria, in 1858, selected the place as the

seat of government. In 1867 it became the capital of the new Dominion.



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