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Construire une capitale, Ottawa : making a capital

Offers a collection of essays in English and in French on the history of Ottawa. This title covers topics such as pre-contact society, French Canadian voyageurs, the early civil service, the first labour organizers and Jewish peddlers. It enables readers to learn about the origins of local street names, and the Great Fire of 1900.
Print Book, English, ©2001
Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa = University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa, ©2001
Conference papers and proceedings
vi, 502 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
9780776605210, 0776605216
1029391930
Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Ottawa, Ont., in Nov. 1999. Cf. P. [1]
Text in English and French