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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A waterway, about 200 km (125 mi) long, of southeast Ontario, Canada, connecting the Ottawa River at Ottawa with Lake Ontario at Kingston. Constructed between 1826 and 1832, it follows the course of the Rideau River for much of its length.
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Examples
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John MacTaggart, a manager of the Rideau Canal, declared the Irish incapable of becoming “useful labourers.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Despite its inviting street entrance and visitor-friendly location by the Rideau Canal, the building is now being rehabilitated, not for some new public use, but as extra space for parliamentary committees.
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This must come as a surprise to the normally supportive Premier Brad Wall, who earlier this month compared the Building Canada Fund with Ottawa's Rideau Canal in the winter: both are frozen and don't move.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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This must come as a surprise to the normally supportive Premier Brad Wall, who earlier this month compared the Building Canada Fund with Ottawa's Rideau Canal in the winter: both are frozen and don't move.
Saskatchewan Op-ed Cautions Us To Look Tory 'Gift Horse' In The Mouth 2009
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I saw a lot of references to authentic Canaidana - the actual winter traditions in our capital city beaver tails, skating on the Rideau Canal, etc.
"canada's national newspaper," feeding the legendary inferiority complex 2009
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Someone eventually found the gold in a pipe in the wall of the Rideau Canal.
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We went to attend Winterlude, which is the freezing of the Rideau Canal so we can fall down on it and eat hot things and behave like the neo-Victorians we are.
The Question Is, What Sort of Surgery Was the Patient Etherized For? yuki_onna 2008
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Yesterday I did something that should be officially mandated as a rite of passage while living in Ottawa - skating on the Rideau Canal.
Archive 2008-02-01 The Eternal Postdoc 2008
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The Eternal Postdoc: My first time... skating on the Rideau Canal skip to main
My first time... skating on the Rideau Canal The Eternal Postdoc 2008
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Speaking of falling down, the Rideau Canal should be opening in a few days.
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