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Ottawa (i/ˈɒtəwə/ or /ˈɒtəwɑː/; French pronunciation: [ɔtawa]) is the capital city of Canada. It stands on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec; the two form the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). The 2011 census reported a population of 883,391 within the city, making it the fourth-largest city in Canada, and 1,236,324 within the CMA, making it the fourth-largest CMA in Canada. The City of Ottawa has since estimated it had a population of 951,727 in 2014.
Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as "Ottawa" in 1855, the city has evolved into a political and technological centre of Canada. Its original boundaries were expanded through numerous minor annexations and were ultimately replaced by a new city incorporation and major amalgamation in 2001 which significantly increased its land area. The city name "Ottawa" was chosen in reference to the Ottawa River nearby, which is a word derived from the Algonquin word Odawa, meaning "to trade".
Ottawa is a city located at the confluence of the navigable Illinois River and Fox River in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. The Illinois River is a conduit for river barges and connects Lake Michigan at Chicago, to the Mississippi River, and North America's 25,000 mile river system. The population estimate was 18,562 as of 2013. It is the county seat of LaSalle County and it is part of the Ottawa-Peru, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Ottawa was the site of the first of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. During the Ottawa debate Stephen A. Douglas, leader of the Democratic Party, openly accused Abraham Lincoln of forming a secret bipartisan group of Congressmen to bring about the abolition of slavery.
The John Hossack House was a "station" on the Underground Railroad, and Ottawa was a major stop because of its rail, road, and river transportation. Citizens in the city were active within the abolitionist movement. Ottawa was the site of a famous 1859 extrication of a runaway slave named Jim Gray from a courthouse by prominent civic leaders of the time. Three of the civic leaders, John Hossack, Dr. Joseph Stout and James Stout, later stood trial in Chicago for violating the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
Ottawa Station (IATA: XDS) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located at 200 Tremblay Road, is served by Via Rail inter-city trains connecting it to Toronto and Montreal. OC Transpo’s Train rapid transit station (which, despite its name, is a bus stop) carries railway passengers into the city centre or into the eastern suburbs.
The station was designed by John B. Parkin & Associates and was built in 1966. It won a Massey Medal for architecture in 1967. In 2000, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada named the station as one of the top 500 buildings produced in Canada during the last millennium.
Ottawa’s trains once came into a large downtown Union Station a short distance from the Parliament buildings, but with the replacement of the railway tracks beside the Rideau Canal with the National Capital Commission’s Colonel By Drive scenic parkway, the former station has been converted into the Government Conference Centre.
KLM runs a connecting shuttle bus from this station to Montreal Airport, exclusive for the airline's customers only.
Music video for Ottawa band Seismic.
Tony Shahrasebi, the owner of the half demolished building at Bank and Somerset is now being asked to spend $3 million to stabilize the building against seismic jiggling.
Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada will employ all-electric motion platforms from MTS subsidiary E2M Technologies B.V. to study the failure mechanisms of complex suspended ceiling constructions under real-world earthquake loading. To pursue these investigations, they constructed a state-of-the-art testing facility, featuring four all-electric E2M shake tables. Working in sync, the shake tables will subject experimental suspended ceilings to an array of floor motions to study their behavior and performance across a range of earthquake events and building heights - especially super-tall structures where pronounced vertical and rotational forces can be especially damaging. Learn more at https://www.mts.com/en/articles/civil-engineering/carleton-seismic
By Sabrina Daniel In the University of Ottawa's Structures and Blast Research Labs, Murat Saatcioglu focuses on the performance of buildings and bridges under extreme loads. Using CFI-funded infrastructure, Saatcioglu and his team test building components to see how they withstand earthquakes and bomb blasts. With the collected data, they develop products and design methodologies to strengthen existing structures and prevent future collapses due to blasts and seismic-induced shock waves. *** Éviter l'effondrement des édifices Dans ses laboratoires de structures et de recherche sur les explosions de l'Université d'Ottawa, Murat Saatcioglu évalue la performance des édifices et des ponts dans des conditions extrêmes. Au moyen de l'infrastructure financée par la FCI, lui et son équipe test...
University of Ottawa engineering professor, Dr. Murat Saatcioglu, is an expert in making buildings resist earthquakes. He has a wall in his laboratory that has been built for testing methods he has devised that among other things use sheets of carbon fibre to fix up old, weak buildings. Video by Wayne Cuddington/Postmedia
As one of the world's most seismically active countries, Japan is known for its ability to be prepared for earthquakes like the magnitude 7.6 that hit on New Year's Day. But what if a major earthquake like that one happened in Canada — or if a bigger one like the magnitude 9.0 that struck that same island in 2011 hit here? As Sean Previl reports, seismologists, engineers and geologists say Canada is ready but there is still more that can be done. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10199890/canada-earthquake-risk-preparedness-improving/ Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZ...
Kevin Brewer is a geophysical technologist responsible for building, designing and maintaining various pieces of equipment used in survey work. One of his designs, the microvibe, generates a frequency sweep that travels down into the ground and reflects back up. This microvibe allows the creation of detailed images of the ground very similar to an ultrasound. Simply Science Website: www.nrcan.gc.ca/simply-science Simply Science YouTube Channel: https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fchannel%2FUCNbgD_ZfyM6lh1KbemOKfeg%3Fview_as%3Dsubscriber%253Fsub_confirmation%253D1&token=5be173-1-1594998865448 Simply Science on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NRCanScience Simply Science on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Simply-Science-580046026023390 Simply Science on Instagram: https...
Ottawa (i/ˈɒtəwə/ or /ˈɒtəwɑː/; French pronunciation: [ɔtawa]) is the capital city of Canada. It stands on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec; the two form the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). The 2011 census reported a population of 883,391 within the city, making it the fourth-largest city in Canada, and 1,236,324 within the CMA, making it the fourth-largest CMA in Canada. The City of Ottawa has since estimated it had a population of 951,727 in 2014.
Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as "Ottawa" in 1855, the city has evolved into a political and technological centre of Canada. Its original boundaries were expanded through numerous minor annexations and were ultimately replaced by a new city incorporation and major amalgamation in 2001 which significantly increased its land area. The city name "Ottawa" was chosen in reference to the Ottawa River nearby, which is a word derived from the Algonquin word Odawa, meaning "to trade".
Adios amigo adios my friend
The road we have traveled has come to an end
When two love the same love one love has to lose
And it's you who she longs for it's you she will choose
Adios compadre what must be must be
Remember to name one muchacho for me
I ride to the Rio where my life I will spend
Adios amigo adios my friend
[ guitar ]
Adios compadre let us shed no tears
May all your mananas bring joy through the years
Away from those mem'ries my life I must spend