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The Ottawa river is at this point a beautiful lake.
Carry On Letters in War-Time Coningsby Dawson 1921
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Our route, in the first instance, was by the Ottawa river, which we ascended to its junction with the Matawa river, from which we crossed the height of land dividing the tributaries of the Ottawa from lake
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On the morning of the -- the ice on the branch of the Ottawa river, which we had to cross, being considered sufficiently strong to bear the weight of the artillery, the whole force marched out, under the command of Sir John Colborne in person, to reduce the insurgents, who had fortified themselves at St Eustache and St Benoit, two towns of some magnitude in the district of Bois Brule.
Diary in America, Series One Frederick Marryat 1820
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Her body was found in an Ottawa river in March 2008.
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Officers from the city's marine unit says officers have found everything from cars to refrigerators at the bottom of the Ottawa river, according to the unit's head, Sgt. Dan Beauchamp.
Ottawa Sun 2009
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