. The Street railway journal . OTTAWA. r T A W Ais a bright,sparkli n glittle cityi>f 50,000 inhabitants,situated on the rightbank of the Ottawa•er at its junctionh the Rideau. ItIS Duiit al(jng the riverfor a distance (.)f abouttwo miles uptjn, andat the foot of a lineof bold bluffs 160 height, upon thesummit of which isthe beautiful clusterof Parliament andDominion 1858, when the present city was a small township of barely 10,000 inliabitants, it suddenly found itself famous through its selection by Queen Victoria as the official capital of the Dominion of Canada, this
. The Street railway journal . OTTAWA. r T A W Ais a bright,sparkli n glittle cityi>f 50,000 inhabitants,situated on the rightbank of the Ottawa•er at its junctionh the Rideau. ItIS Duiit al(jng the riverfor a distance (.)f abouttwo miles uptjn, andat the foot of a lineof bold bluffs 160 height, upon thesummit of which isthe beautiful clusterof Parliament andDominion 1858, when the present city was a small township of barely 10,000 inliabitants, it suddenly found itself famous through its selection by Queen Victoria as the official capital of the Dominion of Canada, this appearing to be the easiest way of settling the conflicting claims of Montreal, Quebec, Kingston and Toronto. The little town thus became the Washington of Canada, the res-idence of the Governor-General and the seat of the Supreme Court, and, conscious of the honor, its citizens set themselves to work on improvements, which together with the Parliament Buildings, and with the residts of liberal expenditures in both public and privat
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