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Eastern Standard Time (EST) UTC−05:00 and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) UTC−04:00: Nunavut east of 85° West, and; all communities in the Qikiqtaaluk Region except Resolute; Ontario east of 90° West (except the Big Trout Lake area), plus; west of 90° West: Shebandowan and Upsala areas; Quebec (most of province)
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico. Eastern Standard Time (EST) is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−05:00).
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...
The CBC time signal was typically delayed by about 300 ms with respect to the CHU time signal, because each CBC radio station received the actual time signal from Ottawa by satellite. One of the first announcers of what was then the Dominion Observatory Time Signal on CBC was Lorne Greene, while he was a staff announcer at CBO. [3]
Time zone: Eastern (EST) Forward sortation areas: K1J, K1K. Carson Grove is a neighbourhood in the east end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [1]
Ottawa is known as the most educated city in Canada, with over half the population having graduated from college and/or university. [238] Ottawa has the highest per capita concentration of engineers, scientists, and residents with PhDs in Canada. [239] The city has two main public universities and two main public colleges.
Ottawa and its twin city in Quebec, Gatineau, fall on the boundary between 613 and Quebec's area code 819. However, Ottawa shares a local calling area with the former city of Hull, Quebec (now part of the city of Gatineau). As a result, for 46 years, a call could be completed between Ottawa and Hull with only seven digits.
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.