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The Ottawa River; Algonkin History Archived 2005-01-07 at the Wayback Machine This page was last edited on 23 November 2024, at 04:59 (UTC). Text is available ...
The history of Ottawa, capital of Canada, [1] was shaped by events such as the construction of the Rideau Canal, the lumber industry, the choice of Ottawa as the location of Canada's capital, as well as American and European influences and interactions. By 1914, Ottawa's population had surpassed 100,000 and today it is the capital of a G7 ...
Illustration of Tenmile Creek from "Picturesque Maumee," 1892. The Ottawa River, also known as Ottawa Creek, is a short river, approximately 20 miles (32 km) long [1] (or about 48 miles (77 km) [1] if Tenmile Creek, the longest tributary, is included), in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan in the United States. [2]
The Ottawa River crossing the Ottawa Valley near the City of Ottawa. In the foreground, skirts of the Gatineau Hills make up part of the southern tip of the Canadian Shield. The Ottawa Valley is the valley of the Ottawa River, along the boundary between Eastern Ontario and the Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.
The Maître canoe, or canot de maître (master's canoe), was used on the Great Lakes and the Ottawa River. It was about 36 feet (11 m) long and 6 feet (1.8 m) wide, weighed about 600 pounds (270 kg) and carried three tons of cargo or 65 90-pound (41 kg) standard packs called pièces. Their crew was 6–12; 8–10 was average.
Timber rafts by Parliament Hill in 1882. The Ottawa River timber trade, also known as the Ottawa Valley timber trade or Ottawa River lumber trade, was the nineteenth century production of wood products by Canada on areas of the Ottawa River and the regions of the Ottawa Valley and western Quebec, destined for British and American markets.
1610 – Étienne Brûlé is the first European to see the Chaudière Falls. 1613 – Samuel de Champlain passes the site of the future Ottawa on June 4. 1613 to 1663 – A 1613 royal charter from the King of France evolved to give successive groups monopolies to invest in the vast territory of New France, control the fur trade and manage colonization.
It is located in Southern Ontario on the southern shore of the Ottawa River. Ottawa was historically an indigenous trading spot for the Algonquin and Mississaugas. Its modern history began in 1610 when the first European settler came to the area. The settlement was founded as Bytown in 1826, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855.