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Over the seven-game, 1898 football season, the Rough Riders went undefeated, scoring 188 points to only 24 points against.

The early 1970s was a cruel time for Ottawa’s locally-owned department stores.

Ottawa celebrated its first official Labour Day on Monday, Sept. 1, 1890, a day that Mayor Erratt declared a municipal holiday.

Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of a washerwoman and a vaudeville drummer who quickly abandoned his young family.

One hundred years ago, two old, poorly maintained intake pipes that drew untreated water from mid-river were the source of the city’s water supply.

Here in Canada, Major-General Donald Cameron convinced the Department of Marine and Fisheries in 1890 to experiment with homing pigeons to carry messages between Halifax and Sable Island.

It was a typical mid-August summer day in the nation’s capital—hot and muggy.

On the night of 4 August 1914, a slender, athletic, 21-year old man know as 'Rib' took the night train from Ottawa to New York, never to return.

In 1989, the old Union Station was classified as a federal heritage building.

Trees attacked by the emerald ash borer typically die within a few years of being infected.