Scan 5
The Ottawa city directory 1921 = L'annuaire des adresses d'Ottawa 1921, 1921
12 lines. Read by computer on 18 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1afterwards in 1826 sold it to Nicholas Sparks for a ridiculously low figure as compared with later prices. The rest of the city as we know it today was patented to Louis T. Besserer in 1828. The value of these three properties in those days ran to about $25,000, today they are worth almost $100,000,000.
3The commercial advantages of the Ottawa, the Chaudiere Falls, were perceived long before the white man's arrival by the Algonquin Indians. Here was the goal of yearly trading of many Indian tribes whose ordinary habitats were thousands of miles apart. The river was the route along which the trade of the first inhabitants in Canada travelled before the first occupation and long before Champlain's first famous trip in 1615 up the Ottawa to Georgian Bay.
5Great annual fairs were held in this vicinity by the Indians. They came from as far south as Virginia, the Hurons, the Algonquins, who not only came to trade, but to worship at the Chaudiere Falls which was considered a great shrine at which propitiatory offerings were made. Father Broeboeuf, Father Daniels, Father Jouges, the great French missionaries to the Hurons often passed by what was to be Canada's future capital and some of them have left behind their impressions of the great natural beauty of the place.
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9The first of the Anglo Saxons to settle here came in the person of Philomen Wright in 1799. Hull across the Ottawa was founded by him, and a lumbering district established. It was not until 1811, that Ira Honeywell cleared land and made the first home on this side of the Ottawa close to the Chaudiere Falls. Here in 1811 was born the first white child of the district, so this may be called the real beginning of Ottawa. Between 1811 and 1818 the Richmond pioneer arrived, the soldiers of Waterloo with their wives and children. There were also three settlers who may be called the advance guard of what is now lowertown.
11Between 1818 and 1826 new settlers arrived in numbers. This is the time from which Ottawa really may claim to date its business, in which it had its commercial and financial origin. In 1827 Lt. Col. By of the Royal Engineers arrived from England and pitched his tent on Nepean Point on which he gazed around on an almost unbroken wilderness. The Imperial government, in 1814, decided for the safety and good of British Canada, that all the trade should pass inland to the Ottawa, and it was then that the plans for the construction of the Rideau Canal from Kingston to Ottawa were figured on. Col. By broke the first sod for this great Imperial military undertaking in the spring of 1827. The great Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin laid the corner stone of the second lock of the Rideau Canal at Ottawa in 1827.
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