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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.
This is a list of nicknames and slogans of cities in Canada.Many Canadian cities and communities are known by various aliases, slogans, sobriquets, and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national, or international scales, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.
By 1914, Ottawa's population had surpassed 100,000 and today it is the capital of a G7 country whose metropolitan population exceeds one million. The origin of the name "Ottawa" is derived from the Algonquin word adawe, meaning "to trade". The word refers to the indigenous peoples who used the river to trade, hunt, fish, camp, harvest plants ...
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. 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 National Capital Region (NCR) (French: Région de la capitale nationale, pronounced [ʁeʒjɔ̃ də la kapital nasjɔnal]), also known as Canada's Capital Region and Ottawa–Gatineau, is an official federal designation encompassing the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario, the adjacent city of Gatineau, Quebec, and surrounding suburban and exurban areas.
As in the other two Canadian territories, the only incorporated city in the Yukon is its capital, Whitehorse. Dawson was also previously incorporated as a city, but when the criteria were changed in the 1980s, its status was reduced to that of a town due to population. Through special provision, however, it was officially the town of the city ...
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...
A city is displayed in bold if it is a provincial or federal capital (Ottawa). An italicized city is its largest in its province. The three territories (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut) and one province (Prince Edward Island) do not have municipalities among the 100 most populous in Canada.