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Ottawa
[< Cdn F Outouan < Algonk.; cf. Cree atāweu trader; originally the name of an Algonkian tribe living in southern Ontario]
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n.
the government of Canada, the capital of which is Ottawa, Ontario.
Quotations
1869
[The Ottawa Government is taking a wise step in sending . . . peacemakers to Red River. . . .]
1887
Washington has been most successful in those experiments, and there is no reason why Ottawa should not be equally successful.
1957
With the coming to office of the Conservative Government, these airlines are hopeful for [a] bigger slice of the cake than Ottawa had been allowing them.
1966
In fact, Ottawa was unable to satisfy either the expectations or the needs of the provinces.