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Ottawa

noun

A member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario.

A river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal. Synonyms: Ottawa river, Outaouais.

The capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec). Synonyms: Canadian capital, capital of Canada.

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— Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders • W. H. Triggs, Donald McGavin, Frederick Truby King, J. Sands Elliot, Ada G. Patterson, C.E. Matthews

... his own part, was quite willing to go to the Ottawa House. He had never fared luxuriously, and he had no doubt that even at the Ottawa House he should live better ...

— Struggling Upward - or Luke Larkin's Luck • Horatio Alger

... Buildings in Ottawa were burning, the main switch which controlled the lighting was turned off by mistake and the whole place was plunged into darkness, and this added greatly to the horror and danger. The switch was down a long passage through ...

— The Next of Kin - Those who Wait and Wonder • Nellie L. McClung

... relations of the French towards the other tribes. Many years before the period of which we are writing, certain French captains traded with the Montagnais Indians of Tadousac. These Indians were on friendly terms with the Hurons, the Algonquins Superieurs of the Ottawa river, and the Souriquois of Acadia, and were united in their desire to subdue the terrible Iroquois. As the Iroquois did not trade, Champlain had no relations with them of a business character, and therefore he was not ...

— The Makers of Canada: Champlain • N. E. Dionne

... to encamp here," the Indian added, "for Ottawa Indians hunt in these woods, and they will scalp an Englishman wherever they find him. But if you will go to my ...

— From Farm House to the White House • William M. Thayer

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