Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is situated in the province of Ontario.
To the center of the city, the told hill of the Parliament (Parliament Hill),
situated on the resistant chalky rocks, that constitute the pedestal of falls
of the Curtain, dominates the Outaouais.
Seat of the federal government, policed and peaceful capital, Ottawa
is an especially residential city, reputation for the beauty of its site
and the approval of its urban space.
History
Samuel De Champlain had explored the Outaouais, whose present site
of Ottawa, as early as 1613, but it is at the beginning of the XIXth
century that pioneers erected there an establishment. In 1826, the English
colonel John By bases there Bytown and undertakes the construction
of a 125 miles (200 km) long canal, to connect the Outaouais
(near The Chaudiere falls) to the Saint Laurent river (Kingston).
In 1854, it accesss to the rank of city and takes the name
of Ottawa.
In 1857, the queen Victoria made of Ottawa the Unificated Canada Capital,
preferring it in Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Kingston, cities equally
candidates, clean choice to none advantage one of the two communities,
French-speaking and anglophone, to favor rather their possible reconciliation.
Finally, in 1867, Northern America acte established Ottawa as the
capital of the Canadian-Connfederation.
