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Algonquin Radio Observatory

Algonquin Radio Observatory A radio observatory in Algonquin Park near Lake Traverse, Ontario, site of a 45.7-m antenna opened in 1966. It was operated by the National Research Council of Canada until 1991. The site is now operated jointly by the Geodetic Survey Division of Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, and the Space Geodynamics Laboratory of the Centre for Research in Earth and Space Technology at York University, Toronto. It is now used primarily for geodetic and astrometric Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI).

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University of Ottawa

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, civil and common law, psychology, science, engineering, social sciences, medicine, nursing, and graduate studies.

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