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This is what it looked like when an international celebrity visited Ottawa almost 160 years ago.

Construction on the original Chaudière Bridge began today, 194 years ago.

Ottawa’s Dr. Ezekiel Stone Wiggins predicted a storm of biblical proportions on September 22, 1882.

While strikes were legal back in 1891, six months’ notice had to be provided to management. 

Two young men were sent to jail for taking advantage of Ottawans during the 1920's before watching their network come crumbling down due to the Great Depression.

One-hundred-and-eighty delegates and 40 wives arrived in the capital on a special train put on by the Canada Atlantic Railway. Reportedly, their train was the heaviest passenger train ever hauled over a Canadian railroad.

Horse-powered rail cars were the first modes of mass public transit in Ottawa.

An old Canadian 'tradition' halted after a death in a part of Ottawa which used to be known as Mount Sherwood.

This week back in 1914, a German-born man's charmed life in Ottawa took a drastic turn.

Ottawa was named Canada's capital just a few years after Lord Elgin toured the region.