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Ottawa

February 05, 2023

This article is about the capital of Canada. For other uses, see Ottawa (disambiguation).

Ottawa (/ˈɒtəwə/ (listen), /ˈɒtəwɑː/; Canadian French: [ɔtawɑ]) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR).[14] As of 2021, Ottawa had a city population of 1,017,449 and a metropolitan population of 1,488,307, making it the fourth-largest city and fourth-largest metropolitan area in Canada.

Ottawa
Federal capital city
City of Ottawa
Ville d'Ottawa (French)
From top, left to right: Centre Block on Parliament Hill, the Government House, Downtown Ottawa, the Château Laurier, the National Gallery of Canada and the Rideau Canal
Flag
Coat of arms
Nicknames: 
Motto(s): 
"Advance-Ottawa-En Avant"
Written in the two official languages.[4]
OpenStreetMap
Ottawa
Location within Ontario
Ottawa
Location within Canada
Coordinates: 45°25′29″N 75°41′42″W / 45.42472°N 75.69500°W / 45.42472; -75.69500
Country Canada
ProvinceOntario
Established1826 as Bytown[6]
Incorporated1855 as City of Ottawa[6]
Amalgamated1 January 2001
Government
 • TypeSingle-tier municipality with a Mayor–council system
 • MayorMark Sutcliffe
 • City councilOttawa City Council
 • Federal
representation
List of MPs
 • Provincial
representation
List of MPPs
Area
[7][8][9]
 • Federal capital city2,790.30 km2 (1,077.34 sq mi)
 • Urban
520.82 km2 (201.09 sq mi)
 • Metro
6,767.41 km2 (2,612.91 sq mi)
Elevation
70 m (230 ft)
Population
 (2021)
 • Federal capital city1,017,449 (4th)[5]
 • Density365/km2 (950/sq mi)
 • Urban
1,068,821 [10]
 • Urban density1,954/km2 (5,060/sq mi)
 • Metro
1,488,307 (4th)
 • Metro density185/km2 (480/sq mi)
 • Demonym[11][12]
Ottawan
Time zoneUTC−05:00 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Postal code span
K0A-K4C[4]
Area codes613, 343, 753
GDP (Ottawa–Gatineau CMA)CA$76.6 billion (2016)[13]
GDP per capita (Ottawa–Gatineau CMA)CA$57,849 (2016)
Websitewww.ottawa.ca

Ottawa is the political centre of Canada and headquarters to the federal government. The city houses numerous foreign embassies, key buildings, organizations, and institutions of Canada's government, including the Parliament of Canada, the Supreme Court, the residence of Canada's viceroy, and Office of the Prime Minister.[15]

Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855,[16] its original boundaries were expanded through numerous annexations and were ultimately replaced by a new city incorporation and amalgamation in 2001. The municipal government of Ottawa is established and governed by the City of Ottawa Act of the Government of Ontario, and has an elected city council across 24 wards and a mayor elected city-wide.

Ottawa has the most educated population among Canadian cities[17] and is home to a number of colleges and universities, research and cultural institutions, including the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Algonquin College, the National Arts Centre, the National Gallery of Canada; and numerous national museums, monuments, and historic sites.[18] It is one of the most visited cities in Canada, with over 11 million visitors in 2018.[19][20]

Etymology

The city name Ottawa was chosen in 1855 as a reference to the Ottawa River, the name of which is derived from the Algonquin adawe, meaning 'to trade'.[21][22] The city's modern name in Algonquin language is Odàwàg.[23] The Algonquin Anishinaabe previously occupied a large tract of land on which Ottawa was settled.[24]

History

Main article: History of Ottawa
For a chronological guide, see Timeline of Ottawa history.

Early history

Ottawa is situated on the traditional land of the Algonquins, a broad Indigenous people who are closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe peoples.[25][26]

The Ottawa Valley became habitable around 10,000 years ago, following the natural draining of the Champlain Sea.[27][28] Archaeological findings of arrowheads, tools and pottery indicate that Indigenous populations first settled in the area about 6,500 years ago.[29][30] These findings suggest that these Algonquin people were engaged in foraging, hunting and fishing, but also trade and travel. Three major rivers meet within Ottawa, making it an important trade and travel area for thousands of years.[29] This period ended with the arrival of settlers and colonization of North America by Europeans during and after the 15th century.[31]

European exploration and early development

In 1610, Étienne Brûlé, became the first documented European to navigate the Ottawa River, passing what would become Ottawa on his way to the Great Lakes.[32] Three years later, Samuel de Champlain wrote about the waterfalls in the area and about his encounters with the Algonquin people.[33]

The first non-Indigenous settlement in the area was created by Philemon Wright, a New Englander. Wright founded a lumber town in the area on 7 March 1800 on the north side of the river, across from the present-day city of Ottawa in Hull.[34][35] He, with five other families and twenty-five labourers, also created an agricultural community, which was named Wrightsville.[36][37] Wright pioneered the Ottawa Valley timber trade (soon to be the area's most significant economic activity) by transporting timber by river from the Ottawa Valley to Quebec City.[38]

In 1826, news of the impending construction of the Rideau Canal by the British military led to land speculators founding a community on the south side of the Ottawa River.[39] The following year, the town was named after British military engineer Colonel John By who was responsible for the entire Rideau Waterway construction project.[40] The Rideau canal provided a secure route between Montreal and Kingston on Lake Ontario. It bypassed a vulnerable stretch of the St. Lawrence River bordering the state of New York that had left re-supply ships bound for southwestern Ontario easily exposed to enemy fire during the War of 1812.[41]

 
Camp used by soldiers and labourers of the Rideau Canal, on the south side of the Ottawa River in 1826. The building of the canal attracted many land speculators to the area.

Colonel By set up military barracks on the site of today's Parliament Hill. He also laid out the streets of the town and created two distinct neighbourhoods named "Upper Town" west of the canal and "Lower Town" east of the canal. Similar to its Upper Canada and Lower Canada namesakes, historically "Upper Town" was predominantly English-speaking and Protestant whereas "Lower Town" was predominantly French, Irish and Catholic.[42][page needed]

Bytown's population grew to 1,000 as the Rideau Canal was being completed in 1832.[43][44] Bytown' early pioneer period saw Irish labour unrest that attributed to the Shiners' War from 1835 to 1845[45] and political dissension that was evident in the 1849 Stony Monday Riot.[46] In 1855, Bytown was renamed Ottawa and incorporated as a city.[22] William Pittman Lett was installed as the first city clerk, serving from 1844 to 1891, guiding Ottawa through 36 years of development, leading the hiring of key municipal roles, founding civic organizations, and proposing a set of by-laws for the city.[47][48][49]

The selection of Ottawa as capital

Selection of Ottawa as the capital of Canada predates the Confederation of Canada. The selection was contentious and not straightforward, with the parliament of the United Province of Canada holding more than 200 votes over several decades to attempt to settle on a legislative solution to the location of the capital.[50]

The governor general of the province had designated Kingston as the capital in 1841. However, the major population centres of Toronto and Montreal, as well as the former capital of Lower Canada, Quebec City, all had legislators dissatisfied with Kingston. Anglophone merchants in Quebec were the main group supportive of the Kingston arrangement.[51] In 1842, a vote rejected Kingston as the capital, and study of potential candidates included the then-named Bytown, but that option proved less popular than Toronto or Montreal.[52] In 1843, a report of the Executive Council recommended Montreal as the capital as a more fortifiable location and commercial centre; however, the governor general refused to execute a move without a parliamentary vote.[53] In 1844, the Queen's acceptance of a parliamentary vote moved the capital to Montreal.[54]

In 1849, after violence in Montreal, a series of votes was held, with Kingston and Bytown both again considered as capitals. However, the successful proposal was for two cities to share capital status, and the legislature to alternate sitting in each: Quebec City and Toronto, in a policy known as perambulation.[55][56] Logistical difficulties made this an unpopular arrangement,[57] and although an 1856 vote passed for the lower house of parliament to relocate permanently to Quebec City, the upper house refused to approve funding.[58]

The funding impasse led to the ending of the legislature's role in determining the seat of government. The legislature requested the Queen make the determination of the seat of government. The Queen then acted on the advice of her governor general Edmund Head,[59] who, after reviewing proposals from various cities, selected the recently renamed Ottawa. The Queen sent a letter to colonial authorities selecting Ottawa as the capital, effective 31 December 1857. George Brown, briefly a co-premier of the Province of Canada, attempted to reverse this decision, but was unsuccessful. The Queen's choice was ratified by the Parliament in 1859, with Quebec serving as interim capital from 1859 to 1865.[50][60] The relocation process began in 1865, with the first session of Parliament held in the new buildings in 1866, and the buildings were generally well received by legislators.[61]

 
Ottawa in 1859, before construction on Parliament Hill. Two years prior, Queen Victoria selected the city as the permanent capital of the Province of Canada.

Ottawa was chosen as the capital for two primary reasons.[62] First, Ottawa's isolated location, surrounded by dense forest far from the Canada–US border and situated on a cliff face, would make it more defensible from attack.[63][64] Second, Ottawa was approximately midway between Toronto and Kingston (in Canada West) and Montreal and Quebec City (in Canada East) making the selection an important political compromise.[65][66]

Other minor considerations included that despite Ottawa's regional isolation, there was water transportation access from spring to fall, both to Montreal via the Ottawa River, and to Kingston via the Rideau Waterway.[67] Additionally, by 1854 it also had a modern all-season railway (the Bytown and Prescott Railway) that carried passengers, lumber and supplies the 82 kilometres (50 miles) to Prescott on the Saint Lawrence River and beyond.[36][63] Ottawa's small size was also thought to be less prone to politically motivated mob violence, as had happened in the previous Canadian capitals.[68] Finally, the government already owned the land that eventually became Parliament Hill, which it thought would be an ideal location for the Parliament Buildings.[65]

The original Parliament buildings, which included the entre, East and West Blocks, were constructed between 1859 and 1866 in the Gothic Revival style.[69] At the time, this was the largest North American construction project ever attempted and Public Works Canada and its architects were not initially well prepared for the relatively shallow-lying bedrock, and had to redesign architectural drawings, leading to delays. The Library of Parliament and Parliament Hill landscaping were completed in 1876.[70]

Post-Confederation

 
LeBreton Flats after the 1900 Hull–Ottawa fire. The fire destroyed one-fifth of Ottawa and two-thirds of neighbouring Hull, Quebec.

Starting in the 1850s, entrepreneurs known as lumber barons began to build large sawmills, which became some of the largest mills in the world.[71] Rail lines built in 1854 connected Ottawa to areas south and, from 1886, to the transcontinental rail network via Hull and Lachute, Quebec.[72] By 1885 Ottawa was the only city in Canada whose downtown street-lights were powered entirely by electricity.[73] In 1889, the Government developed and distributed 60 "water leases" (still in use) to mainly local industrialists which gave them permission to generate electricity and operate hydroelectric generators at Chaudière Falls.[74] Public transportation began in 1870 with a horsecar system,[75] overtaken in the 1890s by a vast electric streetcar system that operated until 1959.[76]

The Hull–Ottawa fire of 1900 destroyed two-thirds of Hull, including 40 percent of its residential buildings and most of the buildings of its largest employers along the waterfront.[77] It began as a chimney fire in Hull on the north side of the river, but due to wind, spread rapidly throughout the widespread wooden buildings. In Ottawa, it destroyed about one-fifth of the buildings from the Lebreton Flats south to Booth Street and down to Dow's Lake.[78][79] The fire had a disproportionate effect on west end lower-income neighbourhoods. It had also spread among many lumber yards, a major part of Ottawa's economy. The fire destroyed approximately 3200 buildings and caused an estimated $300 million in damage (in 2020 Canadian dollars).[80] An estimated 14% of Ottawans were left homeless.[81]

 
Ottawa Post Office, located in Confederation Square, pictured in the early 20th century

On 1 June 1912, the Grand Trunk Railway opened both the Château Laurier hotel and its neighbouring downtown Union Station.[82][83] On 3 February 1916, the Centre Block of the Parliament buildings was destroyed by a fire.[84] The House of Commons and Senate was temporarily relocated to the recently constructed Victoria Memorial Museum, now the Canadian Museum of Nature[85] until the completion of the new Centre Block in 1922. The centrepiece of the new Parliament Buildings is a dominant Gothic Revival-styled structure known as the Peace Tower.[86]

The location of what is now Confederation Square was a former commercial district centrally located in a triangular area downtown surrounded by historically significant heritage buildings which include the Parliament buildings. It was redeveloped as a ceremonial centre in 1938 as part of the City Beautiful Movement and became the site of the National War Memorial in 1939 and designated a National Historic Site in 1984.[87] A new Central Post Office (now the Privy Council of Canada) was constructed in 1939 beside the War Memorial because the original post office building on the proposed Confederation Square grounds had to be demolished.[88]

Post-Second World War

 
V-Day, downtown Ottawa in 1945, to mark the end of World War II
 
Greber plan's National Capital Greenbelt surrounding the urban core
 
The John G. Diefenbaker Building was Ottawa's fourth city hall from 1958 until 2001.

Ottawa's former industrial appearance was vastly altered by the 1950 Greber Plan.[89] Prime Minister Mackenzie King hired French architect-planner Jacques Greber to design an urban plan for managing development in the National Capital Region, to make it more aesthetically pleasing and a location more befitting for Canada's political centre.[90][91] Greber's plan included the creation of the National Capital Greenbelt, the Parkway and the Queensway highway system. His plan also called for changes in institutions such as moving downtown Union Station (now the Senate of Canada Building) to the suburbs, the removal of the street car system, the decentralization of selected government offices, the relocation of industries and removal of substandard housing from the downtown. The plan also recommended the creation of the Rideau Canal and Ottawa River pathways.[90][92][93]

In 1958, the National Capital Commission was established as a Crown Corporation through the National Capital Act. The commission's original mission was to implement the Greber Plan recommendations—which it conducted during the 1960s and 1970s.[94] This marked the creation of a permanent political infrastructure for managing the capital region. Prior attempts to do so in the previous 50 years had been temporary in nature. These included plans from the 1899 Ottawa Improvement Commission (OIC), the Todd Plan in 1903, the Holt Report in 1915 and the Federal District Commission (FDC) which was established in 1927 with a 16-year mandate.[95][96]

From 1931 to 1958, City Hall had been at the Transportation Building adjacent to Union Station (now part of the Rideau Centre). In 1958 a new City Hall opened on Green Island near Rideau Falls where urban renewal had recently transformed this industrial location into green space.[97] In 2001, Ottawa City Hall returned downtown to a 1990 building on 110 Laurier Avenue West, the home of the now-defunct Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton. This new location was close to Ottawa's first (1849–1877) and second (1877–1931) City Halls.[98] This new city hall complex also contained an adjacent 19th-century restored heritage building formerly known as the Ottawa Normal School.[97]

From the 1960s to the 1980s, there was a large increase in construction in the National Capital Region,[99] which was followed by large growth in the high-tech industry during the 1990s and 2000s.[100] Ottawa became one of Canada's largest high-tech cities and was nicknamed Silicon Valley North. By the 1980s, Bell Northern Research (later Nortel) employed thousands, and large federally assisted research facilities such as the National Research Council contributed to an eventual technology boom. The early adopters led to offshoot companies such as Newbridge Networks, Mitel and Corel.[101][102]

In 1991, provincial and federal governments responded to a land claim submitted by the Algonquins of Ontario, regarding the unceded status of the land Ottawa sits on.[103] Negotiations have been ongoing, with an eventual goal to sign a treaty that would release Canada from claims for misuse of land under Algonquin title, as well as affirm various rights of the Algonquins and negotiate other conditions for this title transfer.[104]

Ottawa's city limits had been increasing over the years, but it acquired the most territory on 1 January 2001, when it amalgamated all the municipalities of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa–Carleton into one single city.[105] Regional Chair Bob Chiarelli was elected as the new city's first mayor in the 2000 municipal election, defeating Gloucester mayor Claudette Cain.[106] The city's growth led to strains on the public transit system and road bridges. On 15 October 2001, a diesel-powered light rail transit (LRT) line was introduced on an experimental basis. Known today as the Trillium Line, it was dubbed the O-Train and connected downtown Ottawa to the southern suburbs via Carleton University. The decision to extend the O-Train, and to replace it with an electric light rail system, was a major issue in the 2006 municipal elections, where Chiarelli was defeated by businessman Larry O'Brien.[107] After O'Brien's election, transit plans were changed to establish a series of light rail stations from the east side of the city into downtown, and for using a tunnel through the downtown core.[108] Jim Watson, the last mayor of Ottawa prior to amalgamation, was re-elected in the 2010 election.[109]

In October 2012, the City Council approved the final Lansdowne Park plan, an agreement with the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group that saw a new stadium, increased green space, and housing and retail added to the site.[110][111] In December 2012, City Council voted unanimously to move forward with the Confederation Line, a 12.5 km (7.8 mi) light rail transit line, which was opened on 14 September 2019.[112]

Geography

Main article: Geography of Ottawa

Neighbourhoods

Further information: List of neighbourhoods in Ottawa

The present day city of Ottawa consist of the historic main urban area, as well as other urban, suburban and rural areas within the city's post-amalgamation limits.[113]

Old Ottawa

Old Ottawa refers to the former pre-amalgamation city, as well as the former city of Vanier, a densely populated, historically francophone, working class enclave, and the former village of Rockcliffe Park, a wealthy residential neighbourhood adjacent to the Prime Minister's official residence at 24 Sussex and the Governor General's residence.[114][115] The old city includes the downtown core and older neighbourhoods to the east, west, and south. These vibrant neighbourhoods include the bustling commercial and cultural areas of Centretown, Lower Town, and Sandy Hill, the affluent tree lined neighbourhoods of The Glebe, Westboro, and New Edinburgh, and the historically blue-collar communities of Hintonburg, Mechanicsville, Carlington, and LeBreton Flats, with a mixture of housing types, artist lofts, and industrial uses. The old city also includes the ethnic enclaves of Chinatown and Little Italy.

Suburbs and outlying communities

 
Map of Ottawa showing urban areas and names of historical communities

Modern Ottawa is made up of eleven historic townships, ten of which are from the former Carleton County and one from the former Russell County.[116] Ottawa city limits are bounded on the east by the United Counties of Prescott and Russell; by Renfrew County and Lanark County in the west; on the south by the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville and the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry; and on the north by the Regional County Municipality of Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais and the City of Gatineau.[117][118]

The main suburban areas extend a considerable distance to the east, west and south of the inner-city.[119][120] These areas also include the former cities of Cumberland, Gloucester, Kanata and Nepean.[121] The towns of Stittsville and Richmond within the former Goulbourn Township are to the southwest.[114][122] Nepean as a suburb also includes Barrhaven.[114][123] The communities of Manotick and Riverside South are on the other side of the Rideau River, and Greely, southeast of Riverside South.[114]

A number of rural communities (villages and hamlets) are administratively part of the Ottawa municipality.[119] Some of these communities are Burritts Rapids; Ashton; Fallowfield; Kars; Fitzroy Harbour; Munster; Carp; North Gower; Metcalfe; Constance Bay and Osgoode.[114] Several towns are within the federally defined National Capital Region but outside the city of Ottawa municipal boundaries;[119] these include communities of Almonte, Carleton Place, Embrun, Kemptville, Rockland, and Russell.[114]

 
Ottawa above the Ottawa River in 2017, left to right— Byward Market · Fairmont Château Laurier · National Gallery of Canada · Rideau Canal Locks · Parliament Hill with Library of Parliament and Peace Tower · Alexandra Bridge · Downtown Ottawa towers · Supreme Court of Canada

Architecture

Main article: Architecture of Ottawa
 
Completed in 1913, the Connaught Building was constructed in a Gothic Revival style.

Influenced by government structures, much of the city's architecture tends to be formal and functional; the city is also marked by Romantic and Picturesque styles of architecture such as the Parliament Buildings' gothic revival architecture.[124] Ottawa's domestic architecture contains single family homes, but also includes smaller numbers of semi-detached houses, rowhouses, and apartment buildings.[125] Many domestic buildings in Centertown are clad in red brick, with trim in wood, stone, or metal; variations are common, depending on the cultural heritage of the neighbourhoods and the time they were built.[126]

The skyline has been controlled by building height restrictions originally implemented to keep Parliament Hill and the Peace Tower at 92.2 m (302 ft) visible from most parts of the city.[127] Today, several buildings are slightly taller than the Peace Tower, with the tallest being the Claridge Icon at 143 metres.[128] Many federal buildings in the National Capital Region are managed by Public Works Canada, which leads to heritage conservation in its renovations and management of buildings, such as the renovation of the Senate Building.[129][130] Most of the federal land in the region is managed by the National Capital Commission; its control of much undeveloped land and appropriations powers gives the NCC a great deal of influence over the city's development.[131][132][133]

Climate

Ottawa has a humid continental warm summer climate (Köppen Dfb)[134] with four distinct seasons and is between Zones 5a and 5b on the Canadian Plant Hardiness Scale.[135] The average July maximum temperature is 26.6 °C (80 °F). The average January minimum temperature is −14.4 °C (6.1 °F).[136] The highest temperature ever recorded in Ottawa was 37.8 °C (100 °F) on 4 July 1913, 1 August 1917 and 11 August 1944.[137][138]

 
Skating on the Rideau Canal

Summers are warm and humid in Ottawa. On average there are 11 days across the three summer months of June, July and August that have temperatures exceeding 30 °C (86 °F).[139]

Snow and ice are dominant during the winter season. On average, almost every day of January, February and March, have more than 5 cm of snowpack (29, 28, and 22 days respectively), and on average, approximately 12 days a year see 5 cm or more of snowfall, with 4 of those having over 10 cm.[139]

An average 17 days of the year experience temperatures below −20 °C (−4 °F).[139] Spring and fall are variable, prone to extremes in temperature and unpredictable swings in conditions. The month of May, for example, sees a day below freezing about every other year, but sees days above 30 °C at about the same rate.[139]

Annual precipitation averages around 750mm per year.[139] Precipitation is spread out through the year, with some variation. May through November are the months more likely to see precipitation and major precipitation events, with each month having an average of 3 days of over 1 cm of precipitation, with December through April seeing on average 1–2 days. May through November have on average over 8 cm of precipitation per month, with peaks of approximately 9 cm in June and September. December through April have lower than 8 cm, with February being the driest month at an average of 5 cm of precipitation.[139]

Ottawa experiences about 2,080 hours of average sunshine annually (45% of possible).[139] Winds in Ottawa tend to come from the West, though eastward winds caused by lake-effect cells in afternoons are not unusual.[140] Winds tend to be slightly more dominant during the winter.[137][140]

Climate data for Ottawa (Central Experimental Farm), 1981–2010 normals, extremes 1872–present[a]
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 11.7
(53.1) 		12.7
(54.9) 		26.7
(80.1) 		31.2
(88.2) 		35.2
(95.4) 		36.7
(98.1) 		37.8
(100.0) 		37.8
(100.0) 		36.7
(98.1) 		29.4
(84.9) 		23.4
(74.1) 		17.2
(63.0) 		37.8
(100.0)
Average high °C (°F) −5.8
(21.6) 		−3.1
(26.4) 		2.4
(36.3) 		11.4
(52.5) 		19.0
(66.2) 		24.1
(75.4) 		26.6
(79.9) 		25.4
(77.7) 		20.5
(68.9) 		12.8
(55.0) 		5.5
(41.9) 		−2.0
(28.4) 		11.4
(52.5)
Daily mean °C (°F) −10.2
(13.6) 		−7.9
(17.8) 		−2.2
(28.0) 		6.5
(43.7) 		13.5
(56.3) 		18.7
(65.7) 		21.2
(70.2) 		19.9
(67.8) 		15.3
(59.5) 		8.4
(47.1) 		2.0
(35.6) 		−5.6
(21.9) 		6.6
(43.9)
Average low °C (°F) −14.4
(6.1) 		−12.5
(9.5) 		−6.8
(19.8) 		1.5
(34.7) 		8.0
(46.4) 		13.3
(55.9) 		15.7
(60.3) 		14.5
(58.1) 		10.1
(50.2) 		4.0
(39.2) 		−1.5
(29.3) 		−9.2
(15.4) 		1.9
(35.4)
Record low °C (°F) −37.8
(−36.0) 		−38.3
(−36.9) 		−36.7
(−34.1) 		−20.6
(−5.1) 		−7.2
(19.0) 		0.0
(32.0) 		3.3
(37.9) 		1.1
(34.0) 		−4.4
(24.1) 		−12.8
(9.0) 		−30.6
(−23.1) 		−38.9
(−38.0) 		−38.9
(−38.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 62.9
(2.48) 		49.7
(1.96) 		57.5
(2.26) 		71.1
(2.80) 		86.6
(3.41) 		92.7
(3.65) 		84.4
(3.32) 		83.8
(3.30) 		92.7
(3.65) 		85.9
(3.38) 		82.7
(3.26) 		69.5
(2.74) 		919.5
(36.20)
Average rainfall mm (inches) 23.0
(0.91) 		17.9
(0.70) 		28.8
(1.13) 		63.2
(2.49) 		86.6
(3.41) 		92.7
(3.65) 		84.4
(3.32) 		83.8
(3.30) 		92.7
(3.65) 		83.1
(3.27) 		67.5
(2.66) 		31.9
(1.26) 		755.5
(29.74)
Average snowfall cm (inches) 44.3
(17.4) 		34.7
(13.7) 		29.1
(11.5) 		7.2
(2.8) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		2.9
(1.1) 		16.0
(6.3) 		41.3
(16.3) 		175.4
(69.1)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm) 16.0 11.7 11.5 13.2 14.5 12.4 11.6 11.2 12.9 14.9 15.2 15.6 160.7
Average rainy days (≥ 0.2 mm) 3.7 3.5 5.5 11.5 14.4 12.4 11.6 11.2 12.9 14.6 11.6 5.5 118.3
Average snowy days (≥ 0.2 cm) 14.1 9.7 7.4 2.7 0.08 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.81 5.1 12.2 52.0
Mean monthly sunshine hours 99.3 131.3 167.1 189.8 229.8 254.2 279.0 249.3 177.6 139.4 84.3 82.6 2,083.7
Percent possible sunshine 35.0 44.9 45.3 46.9 49.9 54.3 58.9 57.1 47.1 41.0 29.4 30.3 45.0
Average ultraviolet index 1 2 3 5 6 8 7 7 5 3 1 1 4
Source: Environment Canada[138][141][142][143][144][145][146][147][148] and Weather Atlas[149]
Climate data for Ottawa International Airport, 1981–2010 normals, extremes 1938–present
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high humidex 13.9 15.1 30.0 35.1 41.8 44.0 47.2 47.0 42.5 33.9 26.1 18.4 47.2
Record high °C (°F) 12.9
(55.2) 		12.4
(54.3) 		27.4
(81.3) 		31.1
(88.0) 		35.8
(96.4) 		36.1
(97.0) 		36.7
(98.1) 		37.8
(100.0) 		35.1
(95.2) 		27.8
(82.0) 		23.9
(75.0) 		17.9
(64.2) 		37.8
(100.0)
Average high °C (°F) −5.8
(21.6) 		−3.4
(25.9) 		2.5
(36.5) 		11.6
(52.9) 		19.0
(66.2) 		24.1
(75.4) 		26.5
(79.7) 		25.3
(77.5) 		20.4
(68.7) 		12.7
(54.9) 		5.4
(41.7) 		−2.3
(27.9) 		11.3
(52.3)
Daily mean °C (°F) −10.3
(13.5) 		−8.1
(17.4) 		−2.3
(27.9) 		6.3
(43.3) 		13.3
(55.9) 		18.5
(65.3) 		21.0
(69.8) 		19.8
(67.6) 		15.0
(59.0) 		8.0
(46.4) 		1.5
(34.7) 		−6.2
(20.8) 		6.4
(43.5)
Average low °C (°F) −14.8
(5.4) 		−12.7
(9.1) 		−7.0
(19.4) 		1.0
(33.8) 		7.5
(45.5) 		12.9
(55.2) 		15.5
(59.9) 		14.3
(57.7) 		9.6
(49.3) 		3.3
(37.9) 		−2.4
(27.7) 		−10.1
(13.8) 		1.4
(34.5)
Record low °C (°F) −35.6
(−32.1) 		−36.1
(−33.0) 		−30.6
(−23.1) 		−16.7
(1.9) 		−5.6
(21.9) 		−0.1
(31.8) 		5.0
(41.0) 		2.6
(36.7) 		−3.0
(26.6) 		−8.0
(17.6) 		−21.7
(−7.1) 		−34.4
(−29.9) 		−36.1
(−33.0)
Record low wind chill −47.8 −47.6 −42.7 −26.3 −10.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 −6.4 −13.3 −29.5 −44.6 −47.8
Average precipitation mm (inches) 65.4
(2.57) 		54.3
(2.14) 		64.4
(2.54) 		74.5
(2.93) 		80.3
(3.16) 		92.8
(3.65) 		91.9
(3.62) 		85.5
(3.37) 		90.1
(3.55) 		86.1
(3.39) 		81.9
(3.22) 		76.4
(3.01) 		943.4
(37.14)
Average rainfall mm (inches) 25.0
(0.98) 		18.7
(0.74) 		31.1
(1.22) 		63.0
(2.48) 		80.1
(3.15) 		92.8
(3.65) 		91.9
(3.62) 		85.5
(3.37) 		90.1
(3.55) 		82.2
(3.24) 		64.5
(2.54) 		33.5
(1.32) 		758.2
(29.85)
Average snowfall cm (inches) 53.9
(21.2) 		43.3
(17.0) 		38.3
(15.1) 		11.3
(4.4) 		0.2
(0.1) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		3.7
(1.5) 		20.2
(8.0) 		52.5
(20.7) 		223.5
(88.0)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm) 16.6 13.1 12.7 12.4 13.4 13.2 11.9 11.0 12.3 14.3 15.2 17.4 163.6
Average rainy days (≥ 0.2 mm) 4.4 3.9 6.7 10.9 13.4 13.2 11.9 11.0 12.3 13.7 11.0 6.0 118.4
Average snowy days (≥ 0.2 cm) 16.1 12.1 8.8 3.5 0.17 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.1 6.8 14.7 63.3
Average relative humidity (%) 67.5 61.3 56.6 50.2 49.9 53.1 53.7 55.0 59.1 61.6 68.1 72.2 59.0
Mean monthly sunshine hours 122.4 114.1 168.5 187.5 210.5 274.0 301.4 231.9 211.5 148.8 92.4 68.8 2,131.7
Percent possible sunshine 43.1 39.0 45.7 46.3 45.7 58.6 63.7 53.1 56.1 43.7 32.2 25.2 46.0
Source: Environment Canada[137][150][151][152][153][154]

Physical geography

 
Downtown Ottawa is situated on the south bank of the Ottawa River with neighbouring Gatineau in the background across the river.

Ottawa is situated on the south bank of the Ottawa River and contains the mouths of the Rideau River and Rideau Canal.[155] The Rideau Canal (Rideau Waterway) first opened in 1832 and is 202 km (126 mi) long.[156] It connects the Saint Lawrence River on Lake Ontario at Kingston to the Ottawa River near Parliament Hill. It was able to bypass the unnavigable sections of the Cataraqui and Rideau rivers and various small lakes along the waterway due to flooding techniques and the construction of 47 water transport locks.

Ottawa is situated in a lowland on top of Paleozoic carbonate and shale, and is surrounded by more craggy Precambrian igneous and metamorphic formations. Ottawa has had fluvial deposition of until and sands, leading to the widespread formation of eskers. There are limited distinct features arising from glacial deposits, but Ottawa was affected by the Late Winsconsian advance. Prior to the draining of the Champlain Sea, the area had high salinity. After the draining of the sea, the area had pine-dominated forests.[157] Ottawa is located within the Western Quebec Seismic Zone, and while relatively inactive, the city does occasionally experience earthquakes.[158][159][160][161][162]

Built environment

During part of the winter season the Ottawa section of the canal forms the world's largest skating rink, thereby providing both a recreational venue and a 7.8 km (4.8 mi) transportation path to downtown for ice skaters (from Carleton University and Dow's Lake to the Rideau Centre and National Arts Centre).[163] On 29 June 2007, the Rideau Canal was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[164]

The older part of the city (including what remains of Bytown) is known as Lower Town,[165] and occupies an area between the canal and the rivers. Across the canal to the west lie both Centretown and Downtown Ottawa, which share a border along Gloucester street.[166] These core neighbourhoods contain streets such as Elgin and Bank, which fill the role of commercial main streets in the region.[167]

Centretown is next to downtown, which includes a substantial economic and architectural government presence across multiple branches of government. The legislature's work takes place in the parliamentary precinct, which includes buildings on Parliament Hill and others downtown, such as the Senate of Canada Building.[168] Important buildings in the executive branch include the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council as well as many civil service buildings.[169][170] The Supreme Court of Canada building can also be found in this area.[171]

Across the Ottawa River, which forms the border between Ontario and Quebec, lies the city of Gatineau, itself the result of amalgamation of the former Quebec cities of Hull and Aylmer.[172] Although formally and administratively separate cities in two separate provinces, Ottawa and Gatineau (along with a number of nearby municipalities) collectively constitute the National Capital Region, which is considered a single metropolitan area.[173] One federal Crown corporation, the National Capital Commission, or NCC, has significant land holdings in both cities, including sites of historical and touristic importance.[173] The NCC, through its responsibility for planning and development of these lands, has a key role in shaping the development of the city.[174] Around the main urban area is an extensive greenbelt, administered by the NCC for conservation and leisure, and comprising mostly forest, farmland and marshland.[175]

Demographics

Main article: Demographics of Ottawa
Historic Population
YearPop.±%
1901101,102—    
1911123,417+22.1%
1921152,868+23.9%
1931174,056+13.9%
1941206,367+18.6%
1951246,298+19.3%
1956287,244+16.6%
1961358,410+24.8%
1966413,695+15.4%
1971471,931+14.1%
1976520,533+10.3%
1981546,849+5.1%
1986606,639+10.9%
1991678,147+11.8%
1996721,136+6.3%
2001774,072+7.3%
2006812,129+4.9%
2011883,391+8.8%
2016934,243+5.8%
20211,017,449+8.9%
Note: Population figures are extrapolated for current municipal boundaries
Sources:[176][177][178][179][180][b][182][7]
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In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Ottawa had a population of 1,017,449 living in 407,252 of its 427,113 total private dwellings, a change of 8.9% from its 2016 population of 934,243. With a land area of 2,788.2 km2 (1,076.5 sq mi), it had a population density of 364.9/km2 (945.1/sq mi) in 2021.[183]

As of 2021 the Ottawa - Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 1,488,307 living in 604,721 of its 638,013 total private dwellings, a change of 8.5% from its 2016 population of 1,371,576. With a land area of 8,046.99 km2 (3,106.96 sq mi), it had a population density of 185.0/km2 (479.0/sq mi) in 2021.[184]

Ottawa's median age of 40.1 is both below the provincial and national averages as of 2016. Youths under 15 years constituted 16.7% of the total population in 2016, while those of retirement age (65 years and older) made up 15.4%.[185]

The 2021 census reported that immigrants (individuals born outside Canada) comprise 259,215 persons or 25.9% of the total population of Ottawa. Of the total immigrant population, the top countries of origin were China (20,320 persons or 7.8%), India (16,200 persons or 6.2%), United Kingdom (14,760 persons or 5.7%), Lebanon (11,900 persons or 4.6%), Philippines (10,505 persons or 4.1%), United States of America (8,795 persons or 3.4%), Haiti (6,710 persons or 2.6%), Syria (6,370 persons or 2.5%), Vietnam (6,155 persons or 2.4%), and Iran (6,000 persons or 2.3%).[186]

Race and ethnicity

As of 2016, approximately 69.1% of Ottawa's population was European, while 4.6% were aboriginal and 26.3% were visible minorities (higher than the national percentage of 22.3%).[187]

Religion

According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Ottawa included:[186]

Around 65% of Ottawa residents describe themselves as Christian as of 2011, with Catholics accounting for 38.5% of the population and members of Protestant churches 25%. Non-Christian religions are also very well established in Ottawa, the largest being Islam (6.7%), Hinduism (1.4%), Buddhism (1.3%), and Judaism (1.2%). Those with no religious affiliation represent 22.8%.[188]

Language

Bilingualism became official policy for the conduct of municipal business in 2002,[189] and 37.6% of the population can speak both languages as of 2016, making it the largest city in Canada with both English and French as co-official languages.[190] Those who identify their mother tongue as English constitute 62.4 percent, while those with French as their mother tongue make up 14.2 percent of the population. In terms of respondents' knowledge of one or both official languages, 59.9 percent and 1.5 percent of the population have knowledge of English only and French only, respectively; while 37.2 percent have a knowledge of both official languages. The overall Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) has a larger proportion of French speakers than Ottawa itself, since Gatineau is overwhelmingly French speaking. An additional 20.4 percent of the population list languages other than English and French as their mother tongue. These include Arabic (3.2%), Chinese (3.0%), Spanish (1.2%), Italian (1.1%), and many others.[188]

Economy

See also: Economy of Ontario
 
Federal government buildings in Tunney's Pasture

As of 2015, the region of Ottawa-Gatineau has the sixth-highest total household income of all Canadian metropolitan areas ($82,053), and the Ontario portion more directly overlapping the City of Ottawa has a higher household income ($86,451).[191] The median household income after taxes in the City of Ottawa is $73,745 in 2016 was higher than the national median of $61,348.[192] Ottawa's unemployment rate has remained below the national and provincial unemployment rates since 2006, with a rate of 5.2% in April 2022, low compared to the decade preceding.[193][194] In 2019 Mercer ranks Ottawa with the third highest quality of living of any Canadian city, and 19th highest in the world.[195] It is also rated the second cleanest city in Canada, and third cleanest city in the world.[196]

Ottawa's primary employers are the Public Service of Canada and the high-tech industry, although tourism and healthcare also represent increasingly sizeable economic activities. The federal government is the city's largest employer, employing over 116,000 individuals from the National Capital Region.[197] The national headquarters for many federal departments are in Ottawa, particularly throughout Centretown and in the Terrasses de la Chaudière and Place du Portage complexes in Hull. The National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa is the main command centre for the Canadian Armed Forces and hosts the Department of National Defence.[198] During the summer, the city hosts the Ceremonial Guard, which performs functions such as the Changing the Guard.[199]

As the national capital of Canada, tourism is an important part of Ottawa's economy, particularly after the 150th anniversary of Canada which was centred in Ottawa. The lead-up to the festivities saw much investment in civic infrastructure, upgrades to tourist infrastructure and increases in national cultural attractions.[200] The National Capital Region annually attracts an estimated 22 million tourists, who spend about 2.2 billion dollars and support 30,600 jobs directly.[201][202]

 
Kanata Research Park is Canada's largest technology park

In addition to the economic activities that come with being the national capital, Ottawa is an important technology centre; in 2015, its 1800 companies employed approximately 63,400 people.[203] The concentration of companies in this industry earned the city the nickname of "Silicon Valley North".[100] Most of these companies specialize in telecommunications, software development and environmental technology. Large technology companies such as Nortel, Corel, Mitel, Cognos, Halogen Software, Shopify and JDS Uniphase were founded in the city.[204] Ottawa also has regional locations for Nokia, 3M, Adobe Systems, Bell Canada, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.[205] Many of the telecommunications and new technology are in the western part of the city (formerly Kanata). The "tech sector" was doing particularly well in 2015/2016.[206][207]Nordion, i-Stat and the National Research Council of Canada and OHRI are part of the growing life science sector.[208][209]

The health sector is another major employer, which employs over 18,000 people in the city.[210] Business, finance, administration, and sales and service rank high among types of occupations.[182] Approximately ten percent of Ottawa's GDP is derived from finance, insurance and real estate whereas employment in goods-producing industries is only half the national average.[211] The City of Ottawa is the second largest employer[212][213] with approximately 2,100 people employed by the Ottawa Police service, and 13,300 full-time equivalent non-police employees.[214][215]

In 2016, Ottawa experienced an increase of 10,000 jobs over 2012 average growth that was relatively slower than in the late 1990s.[197][216] All major clusters tracked by the city saw increases in employment between 2014 and 2019.[217] Major areas of growth in the 2010s included local and federal administration, finance and accommodation.[197] Between 2008 and 2020, there was growth in the number of government employees and a reduction in high-tech jobs, a reversal of previous trends from 2003 to 2008.[216][217]

Ottawa already has the largest rural economy among Canada's major cities.[218] In Ottawa, the rural economy contributes over $1 billion to the GDP. Agriculture alone accounts for $400 million, $136.7 million of which is farm-gate sales.[219] Rural economic activity includes agriculture, retail sales, construction, forestry and mining (aggregates), tourism, manufacturing, personal and business services, and transportation, to name a few. Rural employment expanded by a healthy 18% from 1996 to 2001.[218]

Media

Further information: Media in Ottawa–Gatineau

Three main daily local newspapers are printed in Ottawa: two English newspapers, the Ottawa Citizen established as the Bytown Packet in 1845 and the Ottawa Sun, and one French newspaper, Le Droit.[220][221] The city is also home to local stations of the television broadcast networks and systems CBC and CTV, as well as English and French radio stations.[222][223][224]

In addition to the market's local media services, Ottawa is home to several national media operations, including CPAC (Canada's national legislature broadcaster)[225] and the parliamentary bureau staff of virtually all of Canada's major newsgathering organizations in television, radio and print. The city is also home to the head office of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[226]

Education

Further information: List of schools in Ottawa
 
Established in 1848, the University of Ottawa is the oldest post-secondary institution in the city.

Primary and secondary education

Four main public school boards exist in Ottawa: English, English-Catholic, French, and French-Catholic. The English-language Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) is the largest board with 147 schools,[227] followed by the English-Catholic Ottawa Catholic School Board with 85 schools.[228] The two French-language boards are the French-Catholic Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est with 49 schools,[229] and the French Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario with 37 schools.[230] Ottawa also has numerous private schools which are not part of a board.[231]

The Ottawa Public Library was created in 1906 as part of the Carnegie library system.[232] as of 2008 the library system had 2.3 million items at its 34 branches and two mobile libraries.[233] Approximately 9.5 million loans were conducted in 2020, approximately 6.7 million physical loans and the remainder digital items.[234]

Higher education and research

Ottawa is known as the most educated city in Canada, with over half the population having graduated from college and/or university.[235] Ottawa has the highest per capita concentration of engineers, scientists, and residents with PhDs in Canada.[236] The city has two main public universities, and two main public colleges.

  • Carleton University was founded in 1942 to meet the needs of returning World War II veterans and later became Ontario's first private, non-denominational college. Over time, Carleton transitioned into the highly ranked comprehensive university it is today.[237] The university's main campus sits between Old Ottawa South and Dow's Lake. Carleton's catholic affiliated university college, is the Dominican University College.[238]
  • The University of Ottawa (originally named the "College of Bytown") was the first post-secondary institution established in the city in 1848. The university later grew to become the largest English-French bilingual university in the world.[239] It is also a member of the U15, a group of highly respected research-intensive universities in Canada.[240] The university's main campus is in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood, just adjacent to the city's downtown core. The University of Ottawa's catholic affiliated university college is St. Paul University.
  • Algonquin College is a college of applied arts and technology, founded in 1967. Its main campus is located in the City View neighbourhood of College Ward. The college serves the National Capital Region and the outlying areas of Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec, and Upstate New York.[241] The college has satellite campuses in Pembroke and Perth, as well as four international campuses through their international offshore partnerships.
  • Collège La Cité is the largest French-language college in Ontario. Founded in 1989, its campus is located off the Aviation Parkway in the Carson Meadows neighbourhood. La Cité has satellite campus in Hawkesbury and a business office in Toronto.

Other colleges and universities in the metropolitan area are located in the neighbouring suburb of Gatineau, including the University of Quebec in Outaouais, Cégep de l'Outaouais, and Heritage College.[242]

Public health

 
The Civic Hospital is one of three main campuses of The Ottawa Hospital
See also: List of hospitals in Ottawa

There are six active general medical hospitals in the city of Ottawa: The Queensway Carleton Hospital, The Ottawa Hospital (Civic Hospital, General Hospital, Riverside Hospital), Montfort Hospital, and Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Several specialized hospital facilities are also present, such as the world renown University of Ottawa Heart Institute, the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, and Élisabeth Bruyère Hospital.[243] There are also several hospitals and major medical centres in neighbouring suburban communities and commuter towns. The University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine operates teaching hospitals in conjunction with partners throughout the city.[244]

Ottawa is headquarters to numerous major medical organizations and institutions such as Canadian Red Cross, Canadian Blood Services, Health Canada, Canadian Medical Association, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Canadian Nurses Association, and the Medical Council of Canada.

Culture and contemporary life

 
ByWard Market is a retail and entertainment district in Downtown Ottawa

Traditionally the ByWard Market (in Lower Town), Parliament Hill and the Golden Triangle (both in Centretown – Downtown) have been the focal points of the cultural scenes in Ottawa.[245] Modern thoroughfares such as Wellington Street, Rideau Street, Sussex Drive, Elgin Street, Bank Street, Somerset Street, Preston Street, Richmond Road in Westboro, and Sparks Street are home to many boutiques, museums, theatres, galleries, landmarks and memorials in addition to eating establishments, cafes, bars and nightclubs.[246]

As Canada's capital, Ottawa has played host to a number of significant cultural events in Canadian history, including the first visit of the reigning Canadian sovereign—King George VI, with his consort, Queen Elizabeth—to his parliament, on 19 May 1939.[247] VE Day was marked with a large celebration on 8 May 1945,[248] the first raising of the country's new national flag took place on 15 February 1965,[249] and the centennial of Confederation was celebrated on 1 July 1967.[250] Queen Elizabeth II was in Ottawa on 17 April 1982, to issue a royal proclamation of the enactment of the Constitution Act.[251] In 1983, Prince Charles and Diana Princess of Wales came to Ottawa for a state dinner hosted by then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.[252] In 2011, Ottawa was selected as the first city to receive Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge during their tour of Canada.[253]

Ottawa was featured in the short story collection For Your Eyes Only, by Ian Fleming.[254]

Landmarks

Main articles: List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Ottawa and List of designated heritage properties in Ottawa

There are 25 National Historic Sites of Canada in Ottawa, including the Château Laurier, Confederation Square, the former Ottawa Teachers' College and Laurier House. Many other properties of cultural value have been designated as having "heritage elements" by the City of Ottawa under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act.[255]

Arts

See also: List of attractions in Ottawa and List of museums in Ottawa
 
The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada's national museum of natural history and natural science.

Performing and visual arts

The Ottawa Little Theatre, founded in 1913 as the Ottawa Drama League, is the longest-running community theatre company in Ottawa.[256] Since 1969, Ottawa has been the home of the National Arts Centre, a major performing arts venue that houses four stages and is home to the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and Opera Lyra Ottawa.[257]

Established in 1975, the Great Canadian Theatre Company specializes in the production of Canadian plays at a local level.[258]The cities museum landscape is notable for containing six of Canada's nine national museums, the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian War Museum and National Gallery of Canada.[259] The National Gallery of Canada; designed by famous architect Moshe Safdie, it is a permanent home to the Maman sculpture.[260] The Canadian War Museum houses over 3.75 million artifacts and was moved to an expanded facility in 2005.[261] The Canadian Museum of Nature was built in 1905, and underwent a major renovation between 2004 and 2010, leading to a centrepiece Blue Whale skeleton, and the creation of a monthly nightclub experience, Nature Nocturne.[262][263][264]

Cuisine

Ottawa is home to a number of regional dishes. A city with traditional French-Canadian roots, staples such as poutine are served throughout the city. However, many consider shawarma Ottawa's official dish.[265] Ottawa is home to more shawarma shops than anywhere in the world outside the middle east.[266] The city is also home to "Ottawa-style" pizza. Consisting usually of a thicker doughy crust, slightly spicy pizza sauce, with the toppings baked under a heavy layer of cheese, keeping the toppings soft.[267] Beaver tails, are a fried dough pastry created in Ottawa in the 1970s. Le Cordon Bleu has a long established culinary arts institute in the central Ottawa neighbourhood of Sandy Hill. It is the only campus for Le Cordon Bleu in North America.[268]

 
Winterlude is an annual winter festival held in Ottawa

Festivals

See also: List of festivals in Ottawa

Ottawa hosts a variety of annual seasonal activities—such as Winterlude, the largest festival in Canada,[269] and Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill and surrounding downtown area, as well as Bluesfest, Canadian Tulip Festival, Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival, Ottawa International Jazz Festival, Fringe Festival, Capital Pride, and CityFolk Festival, that have grown to become some of the largest festivals of their kind in the world.[270][271] In 2010, Ottawa's Festival industry received the IFEA "World Festival and Event City Award" for the category of North American cities with a population between 500,000 and 1,000,000.[272]

Sports

Further information: Sport in Ottawa and List of Ottawa parks

Professional sports

Sport in Ottawa has a history dating back to the 19th century. The city is currently home to four professional sports teams. The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team playing in the National Hockey League. The Senators history in Ottawa dates back to 1883, where the franchise would go on to win eleven Stanley Cups. The team is a member of the Atlantic Division and play their home games at the Canadian Tire Centre.[273]

The Ottawa Redblacks are a professional Canadian Football team playing in the Canadian Football League.[274] Formerly the Ottawa Rough Riders represented the city until 1996. With a history dating back to 1876, the team was one of the oldest and longest-lived professional sports teams in North America. The professional soccer club, Atlético Ottawa, play in the Canadian Premier League. The team was founded in by Spanish club Atlético Madrid, and along with the Redblacks, play their home games at TD Place Stadium.[275] The Ottawa Blackjacks are a professional basketball team, playing in the Canadian Elite Basketball League, out of the TD Place Arena.[276][277] The Ottawa Titans play professional baseball in the Frontier League at Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Park.[278] Ottawa was previously home to the Ottawa Lynx, a Triple-A club, as well as the Ottawa Champions, an independent baseball team in the Can-Am League.[279]

Collegiate sports

The University of Ottawa and Carleton University varsity teams compete in U Sports in various sports. Algonquin College and Collège La Cité teams compete in the OCAA.

The Carleton Ravens are nationally ranked in basketball and soccer.[280] Carleton's men's basketball program is renown as the greatest of all time, having won 16 of the last 19 national championships.[281] The Ottawa Gee-Gees are nationally ranked in basketball and soccer.[282]

Non-professional and amateur sports

Several non-professional teams also play in Ottawa, including the Ottawa 67's junior ice hockey team.[283] The city is home to an assortment of amateur organized team sports such as soccer, basketball, baseball, curling, rowing, ultimate, and horse racing.[284] Casual recreational activities, such as skating, cycling, tennis, hiking, sailing, golfing, skiing, and fishing/ice fishing are also popular.[284]

Government and politics

Main article: City of Ottawa
Further information: List of Ottawa municipal elections, Canadian federal election results in Ottawa, and List of embassies and high commissions in Ottawa

The City of Ottawa is a single-tier municipality, meaning it is in itself a census division and has no county or regional municipality government above it, and has no subsidiary municipalities to provide municipal services.[285][286] Ottawa is governed by the 24-member Ottawa City Council consisting of 23 councillors each representing one ward and the mayor, Jim Watson as of the 2018 Ontario municipal elections, is elected in a citywide vote.[287]

Along with being the capital of Canada, Ottawa is politically diverse in local politics. Most of the city has traditionally supported the Liberal Party in federal elections.[288][289] The safest areas for the Liberals are the ones dominated by Francophones, especially in Vanier and central Gloucester.[288] Central Ottawa is usually more left-leaning, and the New Democratic Party have won ridings there.[290] Some of Ottawa's suburbs are swing areas, such as central Nepean. Another example of a swing area is Orleans, despite its often Liberal Party-aligned francophone population.[288] Ridings further outside the city centre, such as those including Kanata, Barrhaven and rural areas, tend to be more conservative, both fiscally and socially.[288] This is especially true in the former Townships of West Carleton, Goulbourn, Rideau and Osgoode, which are more in line with the conservative areas in the surrounding counties.[288] Rural parts of the former township of Cumberland, with a large number of Francophones, traditionally support the Liberal Party, though their support has recently weakened.[288]

At present, Ottawa is host to 130 embassies.[291] A further 49 countries accredit their embassies and missions in the United States to Canada.[291]

Transportation

See also: OC Transpo, O-Train, List of airports in the Ottawa area, List of Ottawa roads, List of numbered roads in Ottawa, and List of bridges in Ottawa

Public transportation

 
An O-Train crossing the Rideau River. The O-Train is a light rail public transportation service provided by OC Transpo.

Ottawa's public transit system is managed by OC Transpo.[292] OC Transpo operates an integrated, multi-modal Rapid Transit system which includes:

  • The O-Train light rail system. The four line public rail system includes two existing lines, and two lines which are currently under construction.
    • Line 1, (Confederation Line), is an east–west line which operates medium-capacity trains and travels under the city's downtown core.[293]
    • Line 2, (Trillium Line), is a north–south light rail transit corridor connecting the airport and south end of Ottawa to Line 1 at Bayview station.[294]
    • Line 3, is an under construction mass-transit line that will run mostly in parallel to Line 1, splitting at Lincoln Fields station and continuing west.[295]
    • Line 4, is an under-construction 4 km (2.5 mi) airport link connecting the Trillium Line to the Ottawa International Airport
  • A vast Bus rapid transit (BRT) system that uses a series of dedicated bus-only roadways named the Transitway, and reserved lanes on city streets and highways. The Transitway has long distances between stops and full station amenities (including platforms, walkways, fare gates, ticket booths, elevators and convenience stores). It connects Ottawa's suburbs to the inner city. The Rapid bus service network operates all day, 7 days a week, reaching the suburban communities of Kanata to the West, Barrhaven to the South-West, Orléans to the East, and South Keys to the South.[296]
  • Over 190 local bus routes served by a fleet of ordinary, articulated and double-decker buses.[296] Both OC Transpo and the Quebec-based Société de transport de l'Outaouais (STO) operate bus transit services between Ottawa and Gatineau. OC Transpo also operates a door-to-door bus service for disabled individuals known as ParaTranspo.[292] There is a proposed LRT system that could link Ottawa with Gatineau.[297]

Airports

The Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport is the city's principal airport. There are also three main regional airports Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport, Ottawa/Carp Airport, and Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport.[298]

Inter-city transportation

Ottawa station is the main inter-city train station operated by Via Rail. It is located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) to the east of downtown in Eastway Gardens (adjacent to O-Train Tremblay station) and serves Via Rail's Corridor Route.[299][300] The city is also served by inter-city passenger rail service at Fallowfield station in the southwestern suburban community of Barrhaven.[301]

Intercity bus services are currently provided by a number of carriers at various stops throughout the city, following the closure of the former Ottawa Central Station bus terminal on 1 June 2021. Major carriers include: Megabus, Ontario Northland, Autobus Gatineau,[302][303][304] and Orléans Express.[305]

Streets and highways

The City of Ottawa has over 12,200 km (7,600 mi) lane-kilometres of road, as well as a series of freeways. The primary freeways are the east–west provincial Highway 417 (designated as the Queensway and part of the Trans-Canada Highway), Ottawa-Carleton Highway 174 (formerly Provincial Highway 17), Highway 7, and the north–south provincial Highway 416 (designated as Veterans' Memorial Highway), which connects to other 400-Series highways via the 401.[306][307] From downtown there are also freeway connections to Autoroute 5 and Autoroute 50, in neighbouring Gatineau.[308]

The city also has several scenic parkways and promenades, such as the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway (formerly the Ottawa River Parkway), Colonel By Drive, Queen Elizabeth Driveway, the Sir George-Étienne Cartier Parkway (formerly the Rockcliffe Parkway), and the Aviation Parkway. The National Capital Commission manages ceremonial routes linking key attractions on both sides of the Ottawa River, including Confederation Boulevard.[309]

Cycling and pedestrian network

 
The Capital Pathway is a multi-use trail interlinking sites throughout the National Capital Region

Numerous paved multi-use trails, mostly operated by the National Capital Commission and the city, wind their way through much of the capital, including along the Ottawa River, Rideau River, and Rideau Canal. These pathways are used for transportation, tourism, and recreation. Because many streets either have wide curb lanes or bicycle lanes, cycling is a mode of transportation used by up to 2.5% of citizens, including in winter. This is the largest percentage of any major Canadian city.[310][311][312] As of 31 December 2015, over 900 km (560 mi) of cycling facilities are found in Ottawa, including 435 km (270 mi) of multi-use pathways, 8 km (5.0 mi) of cycle tracks, 200 km (120 mi) of on-road bicycle lanes, and 257 km (160 mi) of paved shoulders.[313] 204 km (127 mi) of new cycling facilities were added between 2011 and 2014.[313]

Numerous downtown streets are restricted for pedestrians only. The entire length of Sparks Street was turned into a pedestrian mall in 1966.[314] Since 1960, additional avenues, streets, and parkways, are reserved for pedestrian and bicycle use only on Saturdays, Sundays and on selected holidays and events.[315] In 2021 city council unanimously approved the Byward Market Public Realm Plan to make the market area more car-free and pedestrian friendly.[316] From 2009 to 2015 the NCC introduced the Capital Bixi bicycle-sharing system. This continued until the program was taken over by company VeloGo from 2015 to 2018, when the partnership ceased.[317][318] Scooter-sharing systems have since been introduced in the downtown and inner-city areas.

Notable people

Main article: List of people from Ottawa

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Extreme high and low temperatures in the table below were recorded at Ottawa from March 1872 to October 1889 and at Ottawa CDA from November 1889 to present.
  2. ^ In early 2001, the Province of Ontario dissolved the former City of Ottawa by amalgamating it with eleven other municipalities to form a new City of Ottawa. The 1996 adjusted population of the amalgamated city published in the 2001 census was 721,136,[180] while the population of the dissolved former City of Ottawa in 2001 was 337,031.[181]

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This article is about the capital of Canada For other uses see Ottawa disambiguation Ottawa ˈ ɒ t e w e listen ˈ ɒ t e w ɑː Canadian French ɔtawɑ is the capital city of Canada It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario Ottawa borders Gatineau Quebec and forms the core of the Ottawa Gatineau census metropolitan area CMA and the National Capital Region NCR 14 As of 2021 update Ottawa had a city population of 1 017 449 and a metropolitan population of 1 488 307 making it the fourth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan area in Canada OttawaFederal capital cityCity of Ottawa Ville d Ottawa French From top left to right Centre Block on Parliament Hill the Government House Downtown Ottawa the Chateau Laurier the National Gallery of Canada and the Rideau CanalFlagCoat of armsNicknames Bytown 1 2 O town 3 Motto s Advance Ottawa En Avant Written in the two official languages 4 OpenStreetMapOttawaLocation within OntarioShow map of OntarioOttawaLocation within CanadaShow map of CanadaCoordinates 45 25 29 N 75 41 42 W 45 42472 N 75 69500 W 45 42472 75 69500Country CanadaProvinceOntarioEstablished1826 as Bytown 6 Incorporated1855 as City of Ottawa 6 Amalgamated1 January 2001Government TypeSingle tier municipality with a Mayor council system MayorMark Sutcliffe City councilOttawa City Council FederalrepresentationList of MPs Chandra Arya LPC Mona Fortier LPC Marie France Lalonde LPC David McGuinty LPC Yasir Naqvi LPC Pierre Poilievre CPC Jenna Sudds LPC Anita Vandenbeld LPC ProvincialrepresentationList of MPPs Stephen Blais OLP Lucille Collard OLP John Fraser OLP Merrilee Fullerton PC Goldie Ghamari PC Joel Harden NDP Lisa MacLeod PC Chandra Pasma NDP Area 7 8 9 Federal capital city2 790 30 km2 1 077 34 sq mi Urban520 82 km2 201 09 sq mi Metro6 767 41 km2 2 612 91 sq mi Elevation70 m 230 ft Population 2021 Federal capital city1 017 449 4th 5 Density365 km2 950 sq mi Urban1 068 821 10 Urban density1 954 km2 5 060 sq mi Metro1 488 307 4th Metro density185 km2 480 sq mi Demonym 11 12 OttawanTime zoneUTC 05 00 EST Summer DST UTC 04 00 EDT Postal code spanK0A K4C 4 Area codes613 343 753GDP Ottawa Gatineau CMA CA 76 6 billion 2016 13 GDP per capita Ottawa Gatineau CMA CA 57 849 2016 Websitewww wbr ottawa wbr caOttawa is the political centre of Canada and headquarters to the federal government The city houses numerous foreign embassies key buildings organizations and institutions of Canada s government including the Parliament of Canada the Supreme Court the residence of Canada s viceroy and Office of the Prime Minister 15 Founded in 1826 as Bytown and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855 16 its original boundaries were expanded through numerous annexations and were ultimately replaced by a new city incorporation and amalgamation in 2001 The municipal government of Ottawa is established and governed by the City of Ottawa Act of the Government of Ontario and has an elected city council across 24 wards and a mayor elected city wide Ottawa has the most educated population among Canadian cities 17 and is home to a number of colleges and universities research and cultural institutions including the University of Ottawa Carleton University Algonquin College the National Arts Centre the National Gallery of Canada and numerous national museums monuments and historic sites 18 It is one of the most visited cities in Canada with over 11 million visitors in 2018 19 20 Contents 1 Etymology 2 History 2 1 Early history 2 2 European exploration and early development 2 3 The selection of Ottawa as capital 2 4 Post Confederation 2 5 Post Second World War 3 Geography 3 1 Neighbourhoods 3 1 1 Old Ottawa 3 1 2 Suburbs and outlying communities 3 2 Architecture 3 3 Climate 3 4 Physical geography 3 5 Built environment 4 Demographics 4 1 Race and ethnicity 4 2 Religion 4 3 Language 5 Economy 5 1 Media 6 Education 6 1 Primary and secondary education 6 2 Higher education and research 7 Public health 8 Culture and contemporary life 8 1 Landmarks 8 2 Arts 8 2 1 Performing and visual arts 8 3 Cuisine 8 4 Festivals 9 Sports 9 1 Professional sports 9 2 Collegiate sports 9 3 Non professional and amateur sports 10 Government and politics 11 Transportation 11 1 Public transportation 11 2 Airports 11 3 Inter city transportation 11 4 Streets and highways 11 5 Cycling and pedestrian network 12 Notable people 13 See also 14 Footnotes 15 References 16 Bibliography 17 External linksEtymology EditThe city name Ottawa was chosen in 1855 as a reference to the Ottawa River the name of which is derived from the Algonquin adawe meaning to trade 21 22 The city s modern name in Algonquin language is Odawag 23 The Algonquin Anishinaabe previously occupied a large tract of land on which Ottawa was settled 24 History EditMain article History of Ottawa For a chronological guide see Timeline of Ottawa history Early history Edit The Champlain Sea Ottawa is situated on the traditional land of the Algonquins a broad Indigenous people who are closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe peoples 25 26 The Ottawa Valley became habitable around 10 000 years ago following the natural draining of the Champlain Sea 27 28 Archaeological findings of arrowheads tools and pottery indicate that Indigenous populations first settled in the area about 6 500 years ago 29 30 These findings suggest that these Algonquin people were engaged in foraging hunting and fishing but also trade and travel Three major rivers meet within Ottawa making it an important trade and travel area for thousands of years 29 This period ended with the arrival of settlers and colonization of North America by Europeans during and after the 15th century 31 European exploration and early development Edit In 1610 Etienne Brule became the first documented European to navigate the Ottawa River passing what would become Ottawa on his way to the Great Lakes 32 Three years later Samuel de Champlain wrote about the waterfalls in the area and about his encounters with the Algonquin people 33 The first non Indigenous settlement in the area was created by Philemon Wright a New Englander Wright founded a lumber town in the area on 7 March 1800 on the north side of the river across from the present day city of Ottawa in Hull 34 35 He with five other families and twenty five labourers also created an agricultural community which was named Wrightsville 36 37 Wright pioneered the Ottawa Valley timber trade soon to be the area s most significant economic activity by transporting timber by river from the Ottawa Valley to Quebec City 38 In 1826 news of the impending construction of the Rideau Canal by the British military led to land speculators founding a community on the south side of the Ottawa River 39 The following year the town was named after British military engineer Colonel John By who was responsible for the entire Rideau Waterway construction project 40 The Rideau canal provided a secure route between Montreal and Kingston on Lake Ontario It bypassed a vulnerable stretch of the St Lawrence River bordering the state of New York that had left re supply ships bound for southwestern Ontario easily exposed to enemy fire during the War of 1812 41 Camp used by soldiers and labourers of the Rideau Canal on the south side of the Ottawa River in 1826 The building of the canal attracted many land speculators to the area Colonel By set up military barracks on the site of today s Parliament Hill He also laid out the streets of the town and created two distinct neighbourhoods named Upper Town west of the canal and Lower Town east of the canal Similar to its Upper Canada and Lower Canada namesakes historically Upper Town was predominantly English speaking and Protestant whereas Lower Town was predominantly French Irish and Catholic 42 page needed Bytown s population grew to 1 000 as the Rideau Canal was being completed in 1832 43 44 Bytown early pioneer period saw Irish labour unrest that attributed to the Shiners War from 1835 to 1845 45 and political dissension that was evident in the 1849 Stony Monday Riot 46 In 1855 Bytown was renamed Ottawa and incorporated as a city 22 William Pittman Lett was installed as the first city clerk serving from 1844 to 1891 guiding Ottawa through 36 years of development leading the hiring of key municipal roles founding civic organizations and proposing a set of by laws for the city 47 48 49 The selection of Ottawa as capital Edit Selection of Ottawa as the capital of Canada predates the Confederation of Canada The selection was contentious and not straightforward with the parliament of the United Province of Canada holding more than 200 votes over several decades to attempt to settle on a legislative solution to the location of the capital 50 The governor general of the province had designated Kingston as the capital in 1841 However the major population centres of Toronto and Montreal as well as the former capital of Lower Canada Quebec City all had legislators dissatisfied with Kingston Anglophone merchants in Quebec were the main group supportive of the Kingston arrangement 51 In 1842 a vote rejected Kingston as the capital and study of potential candidates included the then named Bytown but that option proved less popular than Toronto or Montreal 52 In 1843 a report of the Executive Council recommended Montreal as the capital as a more fortifiable location and commercial centre however the governor general refused to execute a move without a parliamentary vote 53 In 1844 the Queen s acceptance of a parliamentary vote moved the capital to Montreal 54 In 1849 after violence in Montreal a series of votes was held with Kingston and Bytown both again considered as capitals However the successful proposal was for two cities to share capital status and the legislature to alternate sitting in each Quebec City and Toronto in a policy known as perambulation 55 56 Logistical difficulties made this an unpopular arrangement 57 and although an 1856 vote passed for the lower house of parliament to relocate permanently to Quebec City the upper house refused to approve funding 58 The funding impasse led to the ending of the legislature s role in determining the seat of government The legislature requested the Queen make the determination of the seat of government The Queen then acted on the advice of her governor general Edmund Head 59 who after reviewing proposals from various cities selected the recently renamed Ottawa The Queen sent a letter to colonial authorities selecting Ottawa as the capital effective 31 December 1857 George Brown briefly a co premier of the Province of Canada attempted to reverse this decision but was unsuccessful The Queen s choice was ratified by the Parliament in 1859 with Quebec serving as interim capital from 1859 to 1865 50 60 The relocation process began in 1865 with the first session of Parliament held in the new buildings in 1866 and the buildings were generally well received by legislators 61 Ottawa in 1859 before construction on Parliament Hill Two years prior Queen Victoria selected the city as the permanent capital of the Province of Canada Ottawa was chosen as the capital for two primary reasons 62 First Ottawa s isolated location surrounded by dense forest far from the Canada US border and situated on a cliff face would make it more defensible from attack 63 64 Second Ottawa was approximately midway between Toronto and Kingston in Canada West and Montreal and Quebec City in Canada East making the selection an important political compromise 65 66 Other minor considerations included that despite Ottawa s regional isolation there was water transportation access from spring to fall both to Montreal via the Ottawa River and to Kingston via the Rideau Waterway 67 Additionally by 1854 it also had a modern all season railway the Bytown and Prescott Railway that carried passengers lumber and supplies the 82 kilometres 50 miles to Prescott on the Saint Lawrence River and beyond 36 63 Ottawa s small size was also thought to be less prone to politically motivated mob violence as had happened in the previous Canadian capitals 68 Finally the government already owned the land that eventually became Parliament Hill which it thought would be an ideal location for the Parliament Buildings 65 The original Parliament buildings which included the entre East and West Blocks were constructed between 1859 and 1866 in the Gothic Revival style 69 At the time this was the largest North American construction project ever attempted and Public Works Canada and its architects were not initially well prepared for the relatively shallow lying bedrock and had to redesign architectural drawings leading to delays The Library of Parliament and Parliament Hill landscaping were completed in 1876 70 Post Confederation Edit LeBreton Flats after the 1900 Hull Ottawa fire The fire destroyed one fifth of Ottawa and two thirds of neighbouring Hull Quebec Starting in the 1850s entrepreneurs known as lumber barons began to build large sawmills which became some of the largest mills in the world 71 Rail lines built in 1854 connected Ottawa to areas south and from 1886 to the transcontinental rail network via Hull and Lachute Quebec 72 By 1885 Ottawa was the only city in Canada whose downtown street lights were powered entirely by electricity 73 In 1889 the Government developed and distributed 60 water leases still in use to mainly local industrialists which gave them permission to generate electricity and operate hydroelectric generators at Chaudiere Falls 74 Public transportation began in 1870 with a horsecar system 75 overtaken in the 1890s by a vast electric streetcar system that operated until 1959 76 The Hull Ottawa fire of 1900 destroyed two thirds of Hull including 40 percent of its residential buildings and most of the buildings of its largest employers along the waterfront 77 It began as a chimney fire in Hull on the north side of the river but due to wind spread rapidly throughout the widespread wooden buildings In Ottawa it destroyed about one fifth of the buildings from the Lebreton Flats south to Booth Street and down to Dow s Lake 78 79 The fire had a disproportionate effect on west end lower income neighbourhoods It had also spread among many lumber yards a major part of Ottawa s economy The fire destroyed approximately 3200 buildings and caused an estimated 300 million in damage in 2020 Canadian dollars 80 An estimated 14 of Ottawans were left homeless 81 Ottawa Post Office located in Confederation Square pictured in the early 20th century On 1 June 1912 the Grand Trunk Railway opened both the Chateau Laurier hotel and its neighbouring downtown Union Station 82 83 On 3 February 1916 the Centre Block of the Parliament buildings was destroyed by a fire 84 The House of Commons and Senate was temporarily relocated to the recently constructed Victoria Memorial Museum now the Canadian Museum of Nature 85 until the completion of the new Centre Block in 1922 The centrepiece of the new Parliament Buildings is a dominant Gothic Revival styled structure known as the Peace Tower 86 The location of what is now Confederation Square was a former commercial district centrally located in a triangular area downtown surrounded by historically significant heritage buildings which include the Parliament buildings It was redeveloped as a ceremonial centre in 1938 as part of the City Beautiful Movement and became the site of the National War Memorial in 1939 and designated a National Historic Site in 1984 87 A new Central Post Office now the Privy Council of Canada was constructed in 1939 beside the War Memorial because the original post office building on the proposed Confederation Square grounds had to be demolished 88 Post Second World War Edit V Day downtown Ottawa in 1945 to mark the end of World War II Greber plan s National Capital Greenbelt surrounding the urban core The John G Diefenbaker Building was Ottawa s fourth city hall from 1958 until 2001 Ottawa s former industrial appearance was vastly altered by the 1950 Greber Plan 89 Prime Minister Mackenzie King hired French architect planner Jacques Greber to design an urban plan for managing development in the National Capital Region to make it more aesthetically pleasing and a location more befitting for Canada s political centre 90 91 Greber s plan included the creation of the National Capital Greenbelt the Parkway and the Queensway highway system His plan also called for changes in institutions such as moving downtown Union Station now the Senate of Canada Building to the suburbs the removal of the street car system the decentralization of selected government offices the relocation of industries and removal of substandard housing from the downtown The plan also recommended the creation of the Rideau Canal and Ottawa River pathways 90 92 93 In 1958 the National Capital Commission was established as a Crown Corporation through the National Capital Act The commission s original mission was to implement the Greber Plan recommendations which it conducted during the 1960s and 1970s 94 This marked the creation of a permanent political infrastructure for managing the capital region Prior attempts to do so in the previous 50 years had been temporary in nature These included plans from the 1899 Ottawa Improvement Commission OIC the Todd Plan in 1903 the Holt Report in 1915 and the Federal District Commission FDC which was established in 1927 with a 16 year mandate 95 96 From 1931 to 1958 City Hall had been at the Transportation Building adjacent to Union Station now part of the Rideau Centre In 1958 a new City Hall opened on Green Island near Rideau Falls where urban renewal had recently transformed this industrial location into green space 97 In 2001 Ottawa City Hall returned downtown to a 1990 building on 110 Laurier Avenue West the home of the now defunct Regional Municipality of Ottawa Carleton This new location was close to Ottawa s first 1849 1877 and second 1877 1931 City Halls 98 This new city hall complex also contained an adjacent 19th century restored heritage building formerly known as the Ottawa Normal School 97 From the 1960s to the 1980s there was a large increase in construction in the National Capital Region 99 which was followed by large growth in the high tech industry during the 1990s and 2000s 100 Ottawa became one of Canada s largest high tech cities and was nicknamed Silicon Valley North By the 1980s Bell Northern Research later Nortel employed thousands and large federally assisted research facilities such as the National Research Council contributed to an eventual technology boom The early adopters led to offshoot companies such as Newbridge Networks Mitel and Corel 101 102 In 1991 provincial and federal governments responded to a land claim submitted by the Algonquins of Ontario regarding the unceded status of the land Ottawa sits on 103 Negotiations have been ongoing with an eventual goal to sign a treaty that would release Canada from claims for misuse of land under Algonquin title as well as affirm various rights of the Algonquins and negotiate other conditions for this title transfer 104 Ottawa s city limits had been increasing over the years but it acquired the most territory on 1 January 2001 when it amalgamated all the municipalities of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa Carleton into one single city 105 Regional Chair Bob Chiarelli was elected as the new city s first mayor in the 2000 municipal election defeating Gloucester mayor Claudette Cain 106 The city s growth led to strains on the public transit system and road bridges On 15 October 2001 a diesel powered light rail transit LRT line was introduced on an experimental basis Known today as the Trillium Line it was dubbed the O Train and connected downtown Ottawa to the southern suburbs via Carleton University The decision to extend the O Train and to replace it with an electric light rail system was a major issue in the 2006 municipal elections where Chiarelli was defeated by businessman Larry O Brien 107 After O Brien s election transit plans were changed to establish a series of light rail stations from the east side of the city into downtown and for using a tunnel through the downtown core 108 Jim Watson the last mayor of Ottawa prior to amalgamation was re elected in the 2010 election 109 In October 2012 the City Council approved the final Lansdowne Park plan an agreement with the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group that saw a new stadium increased green space and housing and retail added to the site 110 111 In December 2012 City Council voted unanimously to move forward with the Confederation Line a 12 5 km 7 8 mi light rail transit line which was opened on 14 September 2019 112 Geography EditMain article Geography of Ottawa Neighbourhoods Edit Further information List of neighbourhoods in Ottawa The present day city of Ottawa consist of the historic main urban area as well as other urban suburban and rural areas within the city s post amalgamation limits 113 Old Ottawa Edit Old Ottawa refers to the former pre amalgamation city as well as the former city of Vanier a densely populated historically francophone working class enclave and the former village of Rockcliffe Park a wealthy residential neighbourhood adjacent to the Prime Minister s official residence at 24 Sussex and the Governor General s residence 114 115 The old city includes the downtown core and older neighbourhoods to the east west and south These vibrant neighbourhoods include the bustling commercial and cultural areas of Centretown Lower Town and Sandy Hill the affluent tree lined neighbourhoods of The Glebe Westboro and New Edinburgh and the historically blue collar communities of Hintonburg Mechanicsville Carlington and LeBreton Flats with a mixture of housing types artist lofts and industrial uses The old city also includes the ethnic enclaves of Chinatown and Little Italy Suburbs and outlying communities Edit Map of Ottawa showing urban areas and names of historical communities Modern Ottawa is made up of eleven historic townships ten of which are from the former Carleton County and one from the former Russell County 116 Ottawa city limits are bounded on the east by the United Counties of Prescott and Russell by Renfrew County and Lanark County in the west on the south by the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville and the United Counties of Stormont Dundas and Glengarry and on the north by the Regional County Municipality of Les Collines de l Outaouais and the City of Gatineau 117 118 The main suburban areas extend a considerable distance to the east west and south of the inner city 119 120 These areas also include the former cities of Cumberland Gloucester Kanata and Nepean 121 The towns of Stittsville and Richmond within the former Goulbourn Township are to the southwest 114 122 Nepean as a suburb also includes Barrhaven 114 123 The communities of Manotick and Riverside South are on the other side of the Rideau River and Greely southeast of Riverside South 114 A number of rural communities villages and hamlets are administratively part of the Ottawa municipality 119 Some of these communities are Burritts Rapids Ashton Fallowfield Kars Fitzroy Harbour Munster Carp North Gower Metcalfe Constance Bay and Osgoode 114 Several towns are within the federally defined National Capital Region but outside the city of Ottawa municipal boundaries 119 these include communities of Almonte Carleton Place Embrun Kemptville Rockland and Russell 114 Ottawa above the Ottawa River in 2017 left to right Byward Market Fairmont Chateau Laurier National Gallery of Canada Rideau Canal Locks Parliament Hill with Library of Parliament and Peace Tower Alexandra Bridge Downtown Ottawa towers Supreme Court of Canada Architecture Edit Main article Architecture of Ottawa Completed in 1913 the Connaught Building was constructed in a Gothic Revival style Influenced by government structures much of the city s architecture tends to be formal and functional the city is also marked by Romantic and Picturesque styles of architecture such as the Parliament Buildings gothic revival architecture 124 Ottawa s domestic architecture contains single family homes but also includes smaller numbers of semi detached houses rowhouses and apartment buildings 125 Many domestic buildings in Centertown are clad in red brick with trim in wood stone or metal variations are common depending on the cultural heritage of the neighbourhoods and the time they were built 126 The skyline has been controlled by building height restrictions originally implemented to keep Parliament Hill and the Peace Tower at 92 2 m 302 ft visible from most parts of the city 127 Today several buildings are slightly taller than the Peace Tower with the tallest being the Claridge Icon at 143 metres 128 Many federal buildings in the National Capital Region are managed by Public Works Canada which leads to heritage conservation in its renovations and management of buildings such as the renovation of the Senate Building 129 130 Most of the federal land in the region is managed by the National Capital Commission its control of much undeveloped land and appropriations powers gives the NCC a great deal of influence over the city s development 131 132 133 Climate Edit Ottawa has a humid continental warm summer climate Koppen Dfb 134 with four distinct seasons and is between Zones 5a and 5b on the Canadian Plant Hardiness Scale 135 The average July maximum temperature is 26 6 C 80 F The average January minimum temperature is 14 4 C 6 1 F 136 The highest temperature ever recorded in Ottawa was 37 8 C 100 F on 4 July 1913 1 August 1917 and 11 August 1944 137 138 Skating on the Rideau Canal Summers are warm and humid in Ottawa On average there are 11 days across the three summer months of June July and August that have temperatures exceeding 30 C 86 F 139 Snow and ice are dominant during the winter season On average almost every day of January February and March have more than 5 cm of snowpack 29 28 and 22 days respectively and on average approximately 12 days a year see 5 cm or more of snowfall with 4 of those having over 10 cm 139 An average 17 days of the year experience temperatures below 20 C 4 F 139 Spring and fall are variable prone to extremes in temperature and unpredictable swings in conditions The month of May for example sees a day below freezing about every other year but sees days above 30 C at about the same rate 139 Annual precipitation averages around 750mm per year 139 Precipitation is spread out through the year with some variation May through November are the months more likely to see precipitation and major precipitation events with each month having an average of 3 days of over 1 cm of precipitation with December through April seeing on average 1 2 days May through November have on average over 8 cm of precipitation per month with peaks of approximately 9 cm in June and September December through April have lower than 8 cm with February being the driest month at an average of 5 cm of precipitation 139 Ottawa experiences about 2 080 hours of average sunshine annually 45 of possible 139 Winds in Ottawa tend to come from the West though eastward winds caused by lake effect cells in afternoons are not unusual 140 Winds tend to be slightly more dominant during the winter 137 140 Climate data for Ottawa Central Experimental Farm 1981 2010 normals extremes 1872 present a Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high C F 11 7 53 1 12 7 54 9 26 7 80 1 31 2 88 2 35 2 95 4 36 7 98 1 37 8 100 0 37 8 100 0 36 7 98 1 29 4 84 9 23 4 74 1 17 2 63 0 37 8 100 0 Average high C F 5 8 21 6 3 1 26 4 2 4 36 3 11 4 52 5 19 0 66 2 24 1 75 4 26 6 79 9 25 4 77 7 20 5 68 9 12 8 55 0 5 5 41 9 2 0 28 4 11 4 52 5 Daily mean C F 10 2 13 6 7 9 17 8 2 2 28 0 6 5 43 7 13 5 56 3 18 7 65 7 21 2 70 2 19 9 67 8 15 3 59 5 8 4 47 1 2 0 35 6 5 6 21 9 6 6 43 9 Average low C F 14 4 6 1 12 5 9 5 6 8 19 8 1 5 34 7 8 0 46 4 13 3 55 9 15 7 60 3 14 5 58 1 10 1 50 2 4 0 39 2 1 5 29 3 9 2 15 4 1 9 35 4 Record low C F 37 8 36 0 38 3 36 9 36 7 34 1 20 6 5 1 7 2 19 0 0 0 32 0 3 3 37 9 1 1 34 0 4 4 24 1 12 8 9 0 30 6 23 1 38 9 38 0 38 9 38 0 Average precipitation mm inches 62 9 2 48 49 7 1 96 57 5 2 26 71 1 2 80 86 6 3 41 92 7 3 65 84 4 3 32 83 8 3 30 92 7 3 65 85 9 3 38 82 7 3 26 69 5 2 74 919 5 36 20 Average rainfall mm inches 23 0 0 91 17 9 0 70 28 8 1 13 63 2 2 49 86 6 3 41 92 7 3 65 84 4 3 32 83 8 3 30 92 7 3 65 83 1 3 27 67 5 2 66 31 9 1 26 755 5 29 74 Average snowfall cm inches 44 3 17 4 34 7 13 7 29 1 11 5 7 2 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 1 1 16 0 6 3 41 3 16 3 175 4 69 1 Average precipitation days 0 2 mm 16 0 11 7 11 5 13 2 14 5 12 4 11 6 11 2 12 9 14 9 15 2 15 6 160 7Average rainy days 0 2 mm 3 7 3 5 5 5 11 5 14 4 12 4 11 6 11 2 12 9 14 6 11 6 5 5 118 3Average snowy days 0 2 cm 14 1 9 7 7 4 2 7 0 08 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 81 5 1 12 2 52 0Mean monthly sunshine hours 99 3 131 3 167 1 189 8 229 8 254 2 279 0 249 3 177 6 139 4 84 3 82 6 2 083 7Percent possible sunshine 35 0 44 9 45 3 46 9 49 9 54 3 58 9 57 1 47 1 41 0 29 4 30 3 45 0Average ultraviolet index 1 2 3 5 6 8 7 7 5 3 1 1 4Source Environment Canada 138 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 and Weather Atlas 149 Climate data for Ottawa International Airport 1981 2010 normals extremes 1938 presentMonth Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high humidex 13 9 15 1 30 0 35 1 41 8 44 0 47 2 47 0 42 5 33 9 26 1 18 4 47 2Record high C F 12 9 55 2 12 4 54 3 27 4 81 3 31 1 88 0 35 8 96 4 36 1 97 0 36 7 98 1 37 8 100 0 35 1 95 2 27 8 82 0 23 9 75 0 17 9 64 2 37 8 100 0 Average high C F 5 8 21 6 3 4 25 9 2 5 36 5 11 6 52 9 19 0 66 2 24 1 75 4 26 5 79 7 25 3 77 5 20 4 68 7 12 7 54 9 5 4 41 7 2 3 27 9 11 3 52 3 Daily mean C F 10 3 13 5 8 1 17 4 2 3 27 9 6 3 43 3 13 3 55 9 18 5 65 3 21 0 69 8 19 8 67 6 15 0 59 0 8 0 46 4 1 5 34 7 6 2 20 8 6 4 43 5 Average low C F 14 8 5 4 12 7 9 1 7 0 19 4 1 0 33 8 7 5 45 5 12 9 55 2 15 5 59 9 14 3 57 7 9 6 49 3 3 3 37 9 2 4 27 7 10 1 13 8 1 4 34 5 Record low C F 35 6 32 1 36 1 33 0 30 6 23 1 16 7 1 9 5 6 21 9 0 1 31 8 5 0 41 0 2 6 36 7 3 0 26 6 8 0 17 6 21 7 7 1 34 4 29 9 36 1 33 0 Record low wind chill 47 8 47 6 42 7 26 3 10 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 13 3 29 5 44 6 47 8Average precipitation mm inches 65 4 2 57 54 3 2 14 64 4 2 54 74 5 2 93 80 3 3 16 92 8 3 65 91 9 3 62 85 5 3 37 90 1 3 55 86 1 3 39 81 9 3 22 76 4 3 01 943 4 37 14 Average rainfall mm inches 25 0 0 98 18 7 0 74 31 1 1 22 63 0 2 48 80 1 3 15 92 8 3 65 91 9 3 62 85 5 3 37 90 1 3 55 82 2 3 24 64 5 2 54 33 5 1 32 758 2 29 85 Average snowfall cm inches 53 9 21 2 43 3 17 0 38 3 15 1 11 3 4 4 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 1 5 20 2 8 0 52 5 20 7 223 5 88 0 Average precipitation days 0 2 mm 16 6 13 1 12 7 12 4 13 4 13 2 11 9 11 0 12 3 14 3 15 2 17 4 163 6Average rainy days 0 2 mm 4 4 3 9 6 7 10 9 13 4 13 2 11 9 11 0 12 3 13 7 11 0 6 0 118 4Average snowy days 0 2 cm 16 1 12 1 8 8 3 5 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 8 14 7 63 3Average relative humidity 67 5 61 3 56 6 50 2 49 9 53 1 53 7 55 0 59 1 61 6 68 1 72 2 59 0Mean monthly sunshine hours 122 4 114 1 168 5 187 5 210 5 274 0 301 4 231 9 211 5 148 8 92 4 68 8 2 131 7Percent possible sunshine 43 1 39 0 45 7 46 3 45 7 58 6 63 7 53 1 56 1 43 7 32 2 25 2 46 0Source Environment Canada 137 150 151 152 153 154 Physical geography Edit Downtown Ottawa is situated on the south bank of the Ottawa River with neighbouring Gatineau in the background across the river Ottawa is situated on the south bank of the Ottawa River and contains the mouths of the Rideau River and Rideau Canal 155 The Rideau Canal Rideau Waterway first opened in 1832 and is 202 km 126 mi long 156 It connects the Saint Lawrence River on Lake Ontario at Kingston to the Ottawa River near Parliament Hill It was able to bypass the unnavigable sections of the Cataraqui and Rideau rivers and various small lakes along the waterway due to flooding techniques and the construction of 47 water transport locks Ottawa is situated in a lowland on top of Paleozoic carbonate and shale and is surrounded by more craggy Precambrian igneous and metamorphic formations Ottawa has had fluvial deposition of until and sands leading to the widespread formation of eskers There are limited distinct features arising from glacial deposits but Ottawa was affected by the Late Winsconsian advance Prior to the draining of the Champlain Sea the area had high salinity After the draining of the sea the area had pine dominated forests 157 Ottawa is located within the Western Quebec Seismic Zone and while relatively inactive the city does occasionally experience earthquakes 158 159 160 161 162 Built environment Edit During part of the winter season the Ottawa section of the canal forms the world s largest skating rink thereby providing both a recreational venue and a 7 8 km 4 8 mi transportation path to downtown for ice skaters from Carleton University and Dow s Lake to the Rideau Centre and National Arts Centre 163 On 29 June 2007 the Rideau Canal was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site 164 The older part of the city including what remains of Bytown is known as Lower Town 165 and occupies an area between the canal and the rivers Across the canal to the west lie both Centretown and Downtown Ottawa which share a border along Gloucester street 166 These core neighbourhoods contain streets such as Elgin and Bank which fill the role of commercial main streets in the region 167 Centretown is next to downtown which includes a substantial economic and architectural government presence across multiple branches of government The legislature s work takes place in the parliamentary precinct which includes buildings on Parliament Hill and others downtown such as the Senate of Canada Building 168 Important buildings in the executive branch include the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council as well as many civil service buildings 169 170 The Supreme Court of Canada building can also be found in this area 171 Across the Ottawa River which forms the border between Ontario and Quebec lies the city of Gatineau itself the result of amalgamation of the former Quebec cities of Hull and Aylmer 172 Although formally and administratively separate cities in two separate provinces Ottawa and Gatineau along with a number of nearby municipalities collectively constitute the National Capital Region which is considered a single metropolitan area 173 One federal Crown corporation the National Capital Commission or NCC has significant land holdings in both cities including sites of historical and touristic importance 173 The NCC through its responsibility for planning and development of these lands has a key role in shaping the development of the city 174 Around the main urban area is an extensive greenbelt administered by the NCC for conservation and leisure and comprising mostly forest farmland and marshland 175 Demographics EditMain article Demographics of Ottawa Historic PopulationYearPop 1901101 102 1911123 417 22 1 1921152 868 23 9 1931174 056 13 9 1941206 367 18 6 1951246 298 19 3 1956287 244 16 6 1961358 410 24 8 1966413 695 15 4 1971471 931 14 1 1976520 533 10 3 1981546 849 5 1 1986606 639 10 9 1991678 147 11 8 1996721 136 6 3 2001774 072 7 3 2006812 129 4 9 2011883 391 8 8 2016934 243 5 8 20211 017 449 8 9 Note Population figures are extrapolated for current municipal boundaries Sources 176 177 178 179 180 b 182 7 Chart formatIn the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada Ottawa had a population of 1 017 449 living in 407 252 of its 427 113 total private dwellings a change of 8 9 from its 2016 population of 934 243 With a land area of 2 788 2 km2 1 076 5 sq mi it had a population density of 364 9 km2 945 1 sq mi in 2021 183 As of 2021 the Ottawa Gatineau census metropolitan area CMA had a population of 1 488 307 living in 604 721 of its 638 013 total private dwellings a change of 8 5 from its 2016 population of 1 371 576 With a land area of 8 046 99 km2 3 106 96 sq mi it had a population density of 185 0 km2 479 0 sq mi in 2021 184 Ottawa s median age of 40 1 is both below the provincial and national averages as of 2016 Youths under 15 years constituted 16 7 of the total population in 2016 while those of retirement age 65 years and older made up 15 4 185 The 2021 census reported that immigrants individuals born outside Canada comprise 259 215 persons or 25 9 of the total population of Ottawa Of the total immigrant population the top countries of origin were China 20 320 persons or 7 8 India 16 200 persons or 6 2 United Kingdom 14 760 persons or 5 7 Lebanon 11 900 persons or 4 6 Philippines 10 505 persons or 4 1 United States of America 8 795 persons or 3 4 Haiti 6 710 persons or 2 6 Syria 6 370 persons or 2 5 Vietnam 6 155 persons or 2 4 and Iran 6 000 persons or 2 3 186 Race and ethnicity Edit As of 2016 approximately 69 1 of Ottawa s population was European while 4 6 were aboriginal and 26 3 were visible minorities higher than the national percentage of 22 3 187 Religion Edit According to the 2021 census religious groups in Ottawa included 186 Christianity 528 700 persons or 52 8 Irreligion 316 740 persons or 31 6 Islam 98 920 persons or 9 9 Hinduism 20 300 persons or 2 0 Buddhism 10 800 persons or 1 1 Judaism 10 600 persons or 1 1 Sikhism 6 375 persons or 0 6 Indigenous Spirituality 445 persons or lt 0 1 Other 8 055 persons or 0 8 Around 65 of Ottawa residents describe themselves as Christian as of 2011 update with Catholics accounting for 38 5 of the population and members of Protestant churches 25 Non Christian religions are also very well established in Ottawa the largest being Islam 6 7 Hinduism 1 4 Buddhism 1 3 and Judaism 1 2 Those with no religious affiliation represent 22 8 188 Language Edit Bilingualism became official policy for the conduct of municipal business in 2002 189 and 37 6 of the population can speak both languages as of 2016 making it the largest city in Canada with both English and French as co official languages 190 Those who identify their mother tongue as English constitute 62 4 percent while those with French as their mother tongue make up 14 2 percent of the population In terms of respondents knowledge of one or both official languages 59 9 percent and 1 5 percent of the population have knowledge of English only and French only respectively while 37 2 percent have a knowledge of both official languages The overall Ottawa Gatineau census metropolitan area CMA has a larger proportion of French speakers than Ottawa itself since Gatineau is overwhelmingly French speaking An additional 20 4 percent of the population list languages other than English and French as their mother tongue These include Arabic 3 2 Chinese 3 0 Spanish 1 2 Italian 1 1 and many others 188 Economy EditSee also Economy of Ontario Federal government buildings in Tunney s Pasture As of 2015 the region of Ottawa Gatineau has the sixth highest total household income of all Canadian metropolitan areas 82 053 and the Ontario portion more directly overlapping the City of Ottawa has a higher household income 86 451 191 The median household income after taxes in the City of Ottawa is 73 745 in 2016 was higher than the national median of 61 348 192 Ottawa s unemployment rate has remained below the national and provincial unemployment rates since 2006 with a rate of 5 2 in April 2022 low compared to the decade preceding 193 194 In 2019 Mercer ranks Ottawa with the third highest quality of living of any Canadian city and 19th highest in the world 195 It is also rated the second cleanest city in Canada and third cleanest city in the world 196 Ottawa s primary employers are the Public Service of Canada and the high tech industry although tourism and healthcare also represent increasingly sizeable economic activities The federal government is the city s largest employer employing over 116 000 individuals from the National Capital Region 197 The national headquarters for many federal departments are in Ottawa particularly throughout Centretown and in the Terrasses de la Chaudiere and Place du Portage complexes in Hull The National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa is the main command centre for the Canadian Armed Forces and hosts the Department of National Defence 198 During the summer the city hosts the Ceremonial Guard which performs functions such as the Changing the Guard 199 As the national capital of Canada tourism is an important part of Ottawa s economy particularly after the 150th anniversary of Canada which was centred in Ottawa The lead up to the festivities saw much investment in civic infrastructure upgrades to tourist infrastructure and increases in national cultural attractions 200 The National Capital Region annually attracts an estimated 22 million tourists who spend about 2 2 billion dollars and support 30 600 jobs directly 201 202 Kanata Research Park is Canada s largest technology park In addition to the economic activities that come with being the national capital Ottawa is an important technology centre in 2015 its 1800 companies employed approximately 63 400 people 203 The concentration of companies in this industry earned the city the nickname of Silicon Valley North 100 Most of these companies specialize in telecommunications software development and environmental technology Large technology companies such as Nortel Corel Mitel Cognos Halogen Software Shopify and JDS Uniphase were founded in the city 204 Ottawa also has regional locations for Nokia 3M Adobe Systems Bell Canada IBM and Hewlett Packard 205 Many of the telecommunications and new technology are in the western part of the city formerly Kanata The tech sector was doing particularly well in 2015 2016 206 207 Nordion i Stat and the National Research Council of Canada and OHRI are part of the growing life science sector 208 209 The health sector is another major employer which employs over 18 000 people in the city 210 Business finance administration and sales and service rank high among types of occupations 182 Approximately ten percent of Ottawa s GDP is derived from finance insurance and real estate whereas employment in goods producing industries is only half the national average 211 The City of Ottawa is the second largest employer 212 213 with approximately 2 100 people employed by the Ottawa Police service and 13 300 full time equivalent non police employees 214 215 In 2016 Ottawa experienced an increase of 10 000 jobs over 2012 average growth that was relatively slower than in the late 1990s 197 216 All major clusters tracked by the city saw increases in employment between 2014 and 2019 217 Major areas of growth in the 2010s included local and federal administration finance and accommodation 197 Between 2008 and 2020 there was growth in the number of government employees and a reduction in high tech jobs a reversal of previous trends from 2003 to 2008 216 217 Ottawa already has the largest rural economy among Canada s major cities 218 In Ottawa the rural economy contributes over 1 billion to the GDP Agriculture alone accounts for 400 million 136 7 million of which is farm gate sales 219 Rural economic activity includes agriculture retail sales construction forestry and mining aggregates tourism manufacturing personal and business services and transportation to name a few Rural employment expanded by a healthy 18 from 1996 to 2001 218 Media Edit Further information Media in Ottawa Gatineau Three main daily local newspapers are printed in Ottawa two English newspapers the Ottawa Citizen established as the Bytown Packet in 1845 and the Ottawa Sun and one French newspaper Le Droit 220 221 The city is also home to local stations of the television broadcast networks and systems CBC and CTV as well as English and French radio stations 222 223 224 In addition to the market s local media services Ottawa is home to several national media operations including CPAC Canada s national legislature broadcaster 225 and the parliamentary bureau staff of virtually all of Canada s major newsgathering organizations in television radio and print The city is also home to the head office of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 226 Education EditFurther information List of schools in Ottawa Established in 1848 the University of Ottawa is the oldest post secondary institution in the city Carleton University in 2022 Primary and secondary education Edit Four main public school boards exist in Ottawa English English Catholic French and French Catholic The English language Ottawa Carleton District School Board OCDSB is the largest board with 147 schools 227 followed by the English Catholic Ottawa Catholic School Board with 85 schools 228 The two French language boards are the French Catholic Conseil des ecoles catholiques du Centre Est with 49 schools 229 and the French Conseil des ecoles publiques de l Est de l Ontario with 37 schools 230 Ottawa also has numerous private schools which are not part of a board 231 The Ottawa Public Library was created in 1906 as part of the Carnegie library system 232 as of 2008 update the library system had 2 3 million items at its 34 branches and two mobile libraries 233 Approximately 9 5 million loans were conducted in 2020 approximately 6 7 million physical loans and the remainder digital items 234 Higher education and research Edit Ottawa is known as the most educated city in Canada with over half the population having graduated from college and or university 235 Ottawa has the highest per capita concentration of engineers scientists and residents with PhDs in Canada 236 The city has two main public universities and two main public colleges Carleton University was founded in 1942 to meet the needs of returning World War II veterans and later became Ontario s first private non denominational college Over time Carleton transitioned into the highly ranked comprehensive university it is today 237 The university s main campus sits between Old Ottawa South and Dow s Lake Carleton s catholic affiliated university college is the Dominican University College 238 The University of Ottawa originally named the College of Bytown was the first post secondary institution established in the city in 1848 The university later grew to become the largest English French bilingual university in the world 239 It is also a member of the U15 a group of highly respected research intensive universities in Canada 240 The university s main campus is in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood just adjacent to the city s downtown core The University of Ottawa s catholic affiliated university college is St Paul University Algonquin College is a college of applied arts and technology founded in 1967 Its main campus is located in the City View neighbourhood of College Ward The college serves the National Capital Region and the outlying areas of Eastern Ontario Western Quebec and Upstate New York 241 The college has satellite campuses in Pembroke and Perth as well as four international campuses through their international offshore partnerships College La Cite is the largest French language college in Ontario Founded in 1989 its campus is located off the Aviation Parkway in the Carson Meadows neighbourhood La Cite has satellite campus in Hawkesbury and a business office in Toronto Other colleges and universities in the metropolitan area are located in the neighbouring suburb of Gatineau including the University of Quebec in Outaouais Cegep de l Outaouais and Heritage College 242 Public health Edit The Civic Hospital is one of three main campuses of The Ottawa Hospital See also List of hospitals in Ottawa There are six active general medical hospitals in the city of Ottawa The Queensway Carleton Hospital The Ottawa Hospital Civic Hospital General Hospital Riverside Hospital Montfort Hospital and Children s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Several specialized hospital facilities are also present such as the world renown University of Ottawa Heart Institute the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre and Elisabeth Bruyere Hospital 243 There are also several hospitals and major medical centres in neighbouring suburban communities and commuter towns The University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine operates teaching hospitals in conjunction with partners throughout the city 244 Ottawa is headquarters to numerous major medical organizations and institutions such as Canadian Red Cross Canadian Blood Services Health Canada Canadian Medical Association Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Canadian Nurses Association and the Medical Council of Canada Culture and contemporary life Edit ByWard Market is a retail and entertainment district in Downtown Ottawa Traditionally the ByWard Market in Lower Town Parliament Hill and the Golden Triangle both in Centretown Downtown have been the focal points of the cultural scenes in Ottawa 245 Modern thoroughfares such as Wellington Street Rideau Street Sussex Drive Elgin Street Bank Street Somerset Street Preston Street Richmond Road in Westboro and Sparks Street are home to many boutiques museums theatres galleries landmarks and memorials in addition to eating establishments cafes bars and nightclubs 246 As Canada s capital Ottawa has played host to a number of significant cultural events in Canadian history including the first visit of the reigning Canadian sovereign King George VI with his consort Queen Elizabeth to his parliament on 19 May 1939 247 VE Day was marked with a large celebration on 8 May 1945 248 the first raising of the country s new national flag took place on 15 February 1965 249 and the centennial of Confederation was celebrated on 1 July 1967 250 Queen Elizabeth II was in Ottawa on 17 April 1982 to issue a royal proclamation of the enactment of the Constitution Act 251 In 1983 Prince Charles and Diana Princess of Wales came to Ottawa for a state dinner hosted by then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 252 In 2011 Ottawa was selected as the first city to receive Prince William Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge during their tour of Canada 253 Ottawa was featured in the short story collection For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming 254 The National War Memorial Landmarks Edit Main articles List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Ottawa and List of designated heritage properties in Ottawa There are 25 National Historic Sites of Canada in Ottawa including the Chateau Laurier Confederation Square the former Ottawa Teachers College and Laurier House Many other properties of cultural value have been designated as having heritage elements by the City of Ottawa under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act 255 Arts Edit See also List of attractions in Ottawa and List of museums in Ottawa The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada s national museum of natural history and natural science Performing and visual arts Edit The Ottawa Little Theatre founded in 1913 as the Ottawa Drama League is the longest running community theatre company in Ottawa 256 Since 1969 Ottawa has been the home of the National Arts Centre a major performing arts venue that houses four stages and is home to the National Arts Centre Orchestra the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and Opera Lyra Ottawa 257 Established in 1975 the Great Canadian Theatre Company specializes in the production of Canadian plays at a local level 258 The cities museum landscape is notable for containing six of Canada s nine national museums the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum the Canada Aviation and Space Museum the Canada Science and Technology Museum Canadian Museum of Nature Canadian War Museum and National Gallery of Canada 259 The National Gallery of Canada designed by famous architect Moshe Safdie it is a permanent home to the Maman sculpture 260 The Canadian War Museum houses over 3 75 million artifacts and was moved to an expanded facility in 2005 261 The Canadian Museum of Nature was built in 1905 and underwent a major renovation between 2004 and 2010 leading to a centrepiece Blue Whale skeleton and the creation of a monthly nightclub experience Nature Nocturne 262 263 264 Cuisine EditOttawa is home to a number of regional dishes A city with traditional French Canadian roots staples such as poutine are served throughout the city However many consider shawarma Ottawa s official dish 265 Ottawa is home to more shawarma shops than anywhere in the world outside the middle east 266 The city is also home to Ottawa style pizza Consisting usually of a thicker doughy crust slightly spicy pizza sauce with the toppings baked under a heavy layer of cheese keeping the toppings soft 267 Beaver tails are a fried dough pastry created in Ottawa in the 1970s Le Cordon Bleu has a long established culinary arts institute in the central Ottawa neighbourhood of Sandy Hill It is the only campus for Le Cordon Bleu in North America 268 Winterlude is an annual winter festival held in Ottawa Festivals Edit See also List of festivals in Ottawa Ottawa hosts a variety of annual seasonal activities such as Winterlude the largest festival in Canada 269 and Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill and surrounding downtown area as well as Bluesfest Canadian Tulip Festival Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival Ottawa International Jazz Festival Fringe Festival Capital Pride and CityFolk Festival that have grown to become some of the largest festivals of their kind in the world 270 271 In 2010 Ottawa s Festival industry received the IFEA World Festival and Event City Award for the category of North American cities with a population between 500 000 and 1 000 000 272 Sports EditFurther information Sport in Ottawa and List of Ottawa parks TD Place Stadium is home to the CFL s Ottawa Redblacks and the CPL s Atletico Ottawa Professional sports Edit Sport in Ottawa has a history dating back to the 19th century The city is currently home to four professional sports teams The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team playing in the National Hockey League The Senators history in Ottawa dates back to 1883 where the franchise would go on to win eleven Stanley Cups The team is a member of the Atlantic Division and play their home games at the Canadian Tire Centre 273 The Ottawa Redblacks are a professional Canadian Football team playing in the Canadian Football League 274 Formerly the Ottawa Rough Riders represented the city until 1996 With a history dating back to 1876 the team was one of the oldest and longest lived professional sports teams in North America The professional soccer club Atletico Ottawa play in the Canadian Premier League The team was founded in by Spanish club Atletico Madrid and along with the Redblacks play their home games at TD Place Stadium 275 The Ottawa Blackjacks are a professional basketball team playing in the Canadian Elite Basketball League out of the TD Place Arena 276 277 The Ottawa Titans play professional baseball in the Frontier League at Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Park 278 Ottawa was previously home to the Ottawa Lynx a Triple A club as well as the Ottawa Champions an independent baseball team in the Can Am League 279 Collegiate sports Edit The University of Ottawa and Carleton University varsity teams compete in U Sports in various sports Algonquin College and College La Cite teams compete in the OCAA The Carleton Ravens are nationally ranked in basketball and soccer 280 Carleton s men s basketball program is renown as the greatest of all time having won 16 of the last 19 national championships 281 The Ottawa Gee Gees are nationally ranked in basketball and soccer 282 Non professional and amateur sports Edit Several non professional teams also play in Ottawa including the Ottawa 67 s junior ice hockey team 283 The city is home to an assortment of amateur organized team sports such as soccer basketball baseball curling rowing ultimate and horse racing 284 Casual recreational activities such as skating cycling tennis hiking sailing golfing skiing and fishing ice fishing are also popular 284 Government and politics EditMain article City of Ottawa Further information List of Ottawa municipal elections Canadian federal election results in Ottawa and List of embassies and high commissions in Ottawa Ottawa City Hall houses the seat of the local government The City of Ottawa is a single tier municipality meaning it is in itself a census division and has no county or regional municipality government above it and has no subsidiary municipalities to provide municipal services 285 286 Ottawa is governed by the 24 member Ottawa City Council consisting of 23 councillors each representing one ward and the mayor Jim Watson as of the 2018 Ontario municipal elections is elected in a citywide vote 287 Along with being the capital of Canada Ottawa is politically diverse in local politics Most of the city has traditionally supported the Liberal Party in federal elections 288 289 The safest areas for the Liberals are the ones dominated by Francophones especially in Vanier and central Gloucester 288 Central Ottawa is usually more left leaning and the New Democratic Party have won ridings there 290 Some of Ottawa s suburbs are swing areas such as central Nepean Another example of a swing area is Orleans despite its often Liberal Party aligned francophone population 288 Ridings further outside the city centre such as those including Kanata Barrhaven and rural areas tend to be more conservative both fiscally and socially 288 This is especially true in the former Townships of West Carleton Goulbourn Rideau and Osgoode which are more in line with the conservative areas in the surrounding counties 288 Rural parts of the former township of Cumberland with a large number of Francophones traditionally support the Liberal Party though their support has recently weakened 288 At present Ottawa is host to 130 embassies 291 A further 49 countries accredit their embassies and missions in the United States to Canada 291 Transportation EditSee also OC Transpo O Train List of airports in the Ottawa area List of Ottawa roads List of numbered roads in Ottawa and List of bridges in Ottawa Public transportation Edit An O Train crossing the Rideau River The O Train is a light rail public transportation service provided by OC Transpo Ottawa s public transit system is managed by OC Transpo 292 OC Transpo operates an integrated multi modal Rapid Transit system which includes The O Train light rail system The four line public rail system includes two existing lines and two lines which are currently under construction Line 1 Confederation Line is an east west line which operates medium capacity trains and travels under the city s downtown core 293 Line 2 Trillium Line is a north south light rail transit corridor connecting the airport and south end of Ottawa to Line 1 at Bayview station 294 Line 3 is an under construction mass transit line that will run mostly in parallel to Line 1 splitting at Lincoln Fields station and continuing west 295 Line 4 is an under construction 4 km 2 5 mi airport link connecting the Trillium Line to the Ottawa International Airport A vast Bus rapid transit BRT system that uses a series of dedicated bus only roadways named the Transitway and reserved lanes on city streets and highways The Transitway has long distances between stops and full station amenities including platforms walkways fare gates ticket booths elevators and convenience stores It connects Ottawa s suburbs to the inner city The Rapid bus service network operates all day 7 days a week reaching the suburban communities of Kanata to the West Barrhaven to the South West Orleans to the East and South Keys to the South 296 Over 190 local bus routes served by a fleet of ordinary articulated and double decker buses 296 Both OC Transpo and the Quebec based Societe de transport de l Outaouais STO operate bus transit services between Ottawa and Gatineau OC Transpo also operates a door to door bus service for disabled individuals known as ParaTranspo 292 There is a proposed LRT system that could link Ottawa with Gatineau 297 Airports Edit The Ottawa Macdonald Cartier International Airport is the city s principal airport There are also three main regional airports Gatineau Ottawa Executive Airport Ottawa Carp Airport and Ottawa Rockcliffe Airport 298 Inter city transportation Edit Ottawa station is the main inter city train station operated by Via Rail It is located 4 kilometres 2 5 mi to the east of downtown in Eastway Gardens adjacent to O Train Tremblay station and serves Via Rail s Corridor Route 299 300 The city is also served by inter city passenger rail service at Fallowfield station in the southwestern suburban community of Barrhaven 301 Intercity bus services are currently provided by a number of carriers at various stops throughout the city following the closure of the former Ottawa Central Station bus terminal on 1 June 2021 Major carriers include Megabus Ontario Northland Autobus Gatineau 302 303 304 and Orleans Express 305 Streets and highways Edit The City of Ottawa has over 12 200 km 7 600 mi lane kilometres of road as well as a series of freeways The primary freeways are the east west provincial Highway 417 designated as the Queensway and part of the Trans Canada Highway Ottawa Carleton Highway 174 formerly Provincial Highway 17 Highway 7 and the north south provincial Highway 416 designated as Veterans Memorial Highway which connects to other 400 Series highways via the 401 306 307 From downtown there are also freeway connections to Autoroute 5 and Autoroute 50 in neighbouring Gatineau 308 The city also has several scenic parkways and promenades such as the Sir John A Macdonald Parkway formerly the Ottawa River Parkway Colonel By Drive Queen Elizabeth Driveway the Sir George Etienne Cartier Parkway formerly the Rockcliffe Parkway and the Aviation Parkway The National Capital Commission manages ceremonial routes linking key attractions on both sides of the Ottawa River including Confederation Boulevard 309 Cycling and pedestrian network Edit The Capital Pathway is a multi use trail interlinking sites throughout the National Capital Region Numerous paved multi use trails mostly operated by the National Capital Commission and the city wind their way through much of the capital including along the Ottawa River Rideau River and Rideau Canal These pathways are used for transportation tourism and recreation Because many streets either have wide curb lanes or bicycle lanes cycling is a mode of transportation used by up to 2 5 of citizens including in winter This is the largest percentage of any major Canadian city 310 311 312 As of 31 December 2015 over 900 km 560 mi of cycling facilities are found in Ottawa including 435 km 270 mi of multi use pathways 8 km 5 0 mi of cycle tracks 200 km 120 mi of on road bicycle lanes and 257 km 160 mi of paved shoulders 313 204 km 127 mi of new cycling facilities were added between 2011 and 2014 313 Numerous downtown streets are restricted for pedestrians only The entire length of Sparks Street was turned into a pedestrian mall in 1966 314 Since 1960 additional avenues streets and parkways are reserved for pedestrian and bicycle use only on Saturdays Sundays and on selected holidays and events 315 In 2021 city council unanimously approved the Byward Market Public Realm Plan to make the market area more car free and pedestrian friendly 316 From 2009 to 2015 the NCC introduced the Capital Bixi bicycle sharing system This continued until the program was taken over by company VeloGo from 2015 to 2018 when the partnership ceased 317 318 Scooter sharing systems have since been introduced in the downtown and inner city areas Notable people EditMain article List of people from OttawaSee also Edit Canada portal Ontario portalOutline of Ottawa World national capitals List of Ottawa buildings Geography of OttawaFootnotes Edit Extreme high and low temperatures in the 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