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OTTAWA VALLEY
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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OTTAWA VALLEY. A distinctive
DIALECT region of Canada that extends along the Ottawa River from north-west of Montreal through the city of Ottawa and north to Algonquin Park. While the speech of the major towns is standard spoken CanE, that of the rural districts is strongly influenced by IrE, both from Ulster and the South, with small pockets of Lowland and Highland ScoE, and
GAELIC,
GERMAN, and Polish influence. The stereotypical feature of the accent is the local place-name
Carp as /kærp/. Syntax includes
for to as an infinitive complement:
Mary wants for to leave. Vocabulary includes (
cow)
byre a cow-shed, cow barn,
moolie a cow without horns,
snye a channel (from French
chenail), and
weight-de-buckety or
weighdee a teeter-totter, see-saw. See
DIALECT (CANADA).
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Ottawa's Streetcars: An Illustrated History of Electric Railway Transit in Canada's Capital City.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Ontario History; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Ottawa's Streetcars An Illustrated History of Electric...897190-07-7. As the editor's foreword suggests Ottawa's Streetcars is a labour of love, and the culmination of an Ottawa native's lifelong fascination with the city and...
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Telecom Ottawa Deploys DragonWave Wireless Solution; AirPair Internet Radios Enables Ottawa's Broadband Utility to Provide Urban and Rural Businesses with Reliable, High-Speed Services.
Business Wire; 12/9/2002; 700+ words
; ...Business Editors/High-Tech Writers OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2002...networks, today announced that Telecom Ottawa Limited has expanded and enhanced its...The DragonWave solution enables Telecom Ottawa to cost-effectively offer reliable...
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Ottawa parmi les technopoles nord-americaines : mythe ou realite?/"Ottawa among North American Technopoles: myth or reality?" *.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Regional Science; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...de haute technologie de la region d'Ottawa percoivent leur ville parmi les villes...qu'ils ont une opinion positive d'Ottawa en ce qui a trait, entre autres, a sa...plus, les repondants considerent qu'Ottawa se classe avantageusement parmi les technopoles...
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Ottawa Marriott Hotel Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation.
News Wire article from: PRWeb; 4/2/2009; 700+ words
; Ottawa, Canada, Apr 02, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) -- The Ottawa Marriott Hotel (http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/yowmc-ottawa-marriott/)recently completed a 4.5 million dollar renovation to revitalize their...
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Ottawa Financial Corporation Adjourns Special Meeting On Fifth Third Merger Until November 28, 2000.
PR Newswire; 11/21/2000; 700+ words
; ...acquire Old Kent Financial Corporation, Ottawa Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: OFCP...Kent acquisition by Fifth Third. The Ottawa special meeting will reconvene on November...results of the vote of the shareholders of Ottawa on the proposal to merge with Fifth Third...
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Ottawa, Ontario: A "Capital" Capital
Magazine article from: The Hymn; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Come and gather at the rivers in Ottawa where we will "Celebrate Hymn Heritages" and the Heritage of the City of Ottawa. It was just 150 years ago, that...decided on the new Capital of Canada. Ottawa was but a rough and tumble lumber town...
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Hydro Ottawa to Sell Telecom Ottawa to Atria Networks for $63 Million.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 2/25/2008; 700+ words
; OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Feb 25, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Hydro Ottawa Holding Inc. ( Hydro Ottawa ) has reached a definitive agreement to sell Telecom Ottawa Holding Inc.'s subsidiaries ( Telecom Ottawa ) to Atria Networks LP ( Atria...
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OTTAWA FINANCIAL CORPORATION TO ACQUIRE AMERIBANK FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK
PR Newswire; 8/10/1995; 700+ words
; HOLLAND, Mich., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Ottawa Financial Corporation ("Ottawa Financial"), the holding company for Ottawa Savings Bank, FSB (Nasdaq-NNM: OFCP) ("Ottawa Savings") of Holland...
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Ottawa grows with industry, but preserves its rich history
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 10/8/1999; ; 700+ words
; Ottawa --- John E. Chambers/Special to The Capital-Journal...Journal By JOHN E. CHAMBERS Special to The Capital-Journal OTTAWA --- The Franklin County seat of Ottawa still is considered an agricultural community, but it has...
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Ottawa University Announces Another 10-Year Accreditation from The Higher Learning Commission.
PR Newswire; 5/11/2004; 700+ words
; OTTAWA, Kan., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Ottawa University is pleased to announce The Higher Learning Commission...to developing and maintaining high standards of excellence. Ottawa University has been continuously accredited by HLC-NCA since...
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Ottawa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Ottawa ETHNONYMS: Courtes Oreilles, Odawa The Ottawa, who speak a southeastern dialect of Ojibwa, an Algonkian...three hundred years. In the early 1830s, several groups of Ottawa living in Ohio moved to a reservation in northeastern Kansas...
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Ottawa Indians
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Ottawa Indians, tribe originally located on the Ottawa River in Canada, were first noted by Champlain (1615...wanderings took them throughout the central U.S. Pontiac was an Ottawa chieftain. The tribe figures in Rogers's Ponteach and...
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OTTAWA VALLEY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
OTTAWA VALLEY. A distinctive DIALECT region of Canada that extends along the Ottawa River from north-west of Montreal through the city of Ottawa and north to Algonquin Park. While the speech of the major towns is standard spoken CanE, that...
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University of Ottawa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
University of Ottawa at Ottawa, Ont., Canada; bilingual; provincially supported; founded 1848 as the College of Bytown. It became the Univ. of Ottawa in 1866. It has faculties of arts, administration, education...
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Ottawa Agreements
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Ottawa Agreements (1932) A series of agreements on tariffs and trade between Britain...DOMINIONS . They were concluded at the Imperial Economic Conference, held at Ottawa, and constituted a system of imperial preference to counter the impact of...
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