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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the original name of Ottawa, so called after Colonel By, builder of the Rideau Canal.
Quotations
1836
[The name of a newspaper].
1964
Yet their wild behaviour in the streets of Bytown was for them a necessary antidote to the isolation of a winter in the bush.