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Ottawa, Ontario : Ottawa | |||
Originally called Bytown, the city was incorporated as Ottawa in 1855. On December 31, 1857 Queen Victoria, asked to settle a dispute between Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, Kingston and Ottawa, chose Ottawa to be the capital of Canada.
The original Parliament Buildings in Ottawa were burned down on February 3, 1916.
In 2001, the city of Ottawa merged with its suburbs, primarily Nepean, Kanata, Gloucester and Orleans, to become one municipality.
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and receive a half-franc piece in return for it. Florent's proud and
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showed less alarm at sight of the lads, as he called them. Still,
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the world, amidst the humiliations inflicted on him by his pupils, and
thoughts. His slain ambitions embittered him. It was long before he
painful lot of a poor, plain, commonplace man. At last, to guard
and sought refuge in a self-created sphere of absolute truth and
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lull his troubles to sleep, he created one for himself. He took no
of evil-smelling class-rooms, of pellets of paper chewed by unruly
suggested to him a spirit of mutiny and pride, whereas it was of peace
the ideal imaginings, to dream that he was perfectly happy, and that
republican city in which he would fain have lived, such now became his
hours. He no longer read any books beyond those which his duties
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such as he thought would change that city of suffering into an abode
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