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What happened the week Ottawa was born (opens the original)
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There is no uncertainty about the place where today’s Ottawa was born. Thousands of tonnes of quarried stone — the eight-stage headlocks of the Rideau Canal — mark, precisely, where the canal and old Bytown, the future city of Ottawa, got their start. But there are parts of the seminal “moment” in Ottawa history — the reason the city is marking its 200th anniversary in 2026 — that have never been told. Ottawa’s birth has typically been summed up by local historians as an auspicious meeting of tw
Ottawa's 200th year is only part of the story (opens the original)
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We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. On June 19, 1948, at the R.R. Foster Sand Pit on the east bank of the Rideau River in old Gloucester Township, excavator operator J.B. Rolland was scooping shovelfuls of sand for a local building project when he saw something unusual spill out from the hillside. Work was stopped as Rolland and fellow Foster employee Grant Harris examined what had been dug up. They were bones from
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