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Ottawa is Canada's capital and residence of the Canadian federal parliament, the eponymous river port on the right and the Rideau Canal, with a metropolitan area population of 1,168,788 inhabitants (2006).
The city is located in eastern Ontario, bordering the province of Quebec. Ottawa is a city as big as Montreal or Toronto. In terms of number of inhabitants, it lags behind other Canadian cities such as Vancouver and Calgary. It forms with a single urban agglomeration Carleton, the fourth largest in Canada, numbering over one million inhabitants. In Ottawa, only a quarter of the population is francophone. Here is the undeniable supremacy of English.
Canada's capital takes its name from an Indian tribe that has adopted a pacifist stance against whites. These tribes were nicknamed the rest of the Indian tribes "Ottawa", meaning "those who trade with foreigners." Nobody has forgotten the first inhabitants of present capital area, which arose due to the city. As a mark of respect for their Indian statue was erected on its pedestal in Ottawa on the cover of greenery.
Ottawa On | Ottawa is Canada's capital and residence of the Canadian federal parliament, the eponymous river port on the right and the Rideau Canal, with a metropolitan area population of 1,168,788 inhabitants (2006)
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