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Ottawa is now a single-tiered census division, home to 1,017,449 people. [1] The city centre is located at the confluence of the Ottawa and Rideau Rivers. The Ottawa River forms the entire northern boundary of the city which it shares with the province of Quebec's municipalities of Pontiac and Gatineau.
A colourful character is linked to this region. Antoine Labelle (1833-1891), parish priest of Saint-Jérôme from 1868 to 1891 and deputy commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Colonization from 1888 to 1890, used this waterway to visit and support the many settlers who settled between Saint-Jérôme and Mont-Laurier.
Ottawa [a] is the capital city of Canada.It is located in the southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River.Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). [13]
The Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben measures about 700 km (435 mi), running from the Montreal area on the east to near Sudbury and Lake Nipissing on the west. [2] On the east, it joins the Saint Lawrence rift system, a half-graben which extends more than 1000 km along the Saint Lawrence River valley and links the Ottawa and Saguenay Graben.
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.
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.
Although a majority of the Algonquin First Nation lives in Quebec, the entire Ottawa Valley is Algonquin traditional territory. Present settlement is a result of adaptations made as a result of settler pressures. [242] A railway bridge over the Ottawa River in Mattawa, Ontario.
ZEC Dumoine is located north of the Ottawa River. Its territory is between: the Zec de Rapides-des-Joachims on the east side. The Dumoine River (flowing to the south) serves as a demarcation between these two ZECs, that is between Lake Laforge (to the north) and the Ottawa River (at the height of Holden Lake);