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The Ottawa city directory 1923 = L'annuaire des adresses d'Ottawa 1923, 1923
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1The Story of Ottawa's Growth
3OTTAWA OF TO-DAY
5Ottawa, the capital of the Dominion of Canada, is governed by a Board of Control, composed of a Mayor and four Controllers and a Council of eighteen Aldermen, elected annually. The Mayor and Controllers are elected by general vote, the Aldermen by Wards—two for each ward. The Mayor is ex-officio Chairman of the Board of Control, is one of the Police Commissioners and represents the City Council on all committees and commissions appointed by the Council.
7The Central Canada Exhibition is held in Ottawa annually. The grounds and buildings are owned by the City, being leased to the Exhibition Association for holding the Fall Fair.
9The affairs of the Public Library are administered by a Board called The Public Library Board.
11The Collegiate Institute is administered by a Board called The Collegiate Institute Board.
13The Public Schools and Separate Schools are administered by Trustees.
15Ottawa's century of life is a stirring story of national expansion and development, of growing strength and increasing wealth. It is a story that thrills alike with the history made and with the promise of the future. One hundred years ago Ottawa, then known as Bytown, was just beginning to take its infant toddling steps on the pathway that has led it to greatness and fame. Ottawa, the Capital City of the Dominion of Canada, is the industrial and commercial metropolis of Eastern Ontario. It is a city that reflects in a thousand and one ways the achievements of the people of Canada. Its National development, coupled with its civic, commercial and financial development marks it plainly as a worthy city for the Capital of Canada. In the variations of advantages which Ottawa possesses in the line of industrial, social, sight-seeing and recreative opportunities, Ottawa takes a proud and worthy position among all the capitals of the world.
17Ottawa has advanced far since the days of a century ago, her progress since Confederation reads like a romance, but great though her past, Ottawa is only on the threshold of its development, unlike many of the cities of this Continent which have reached the apex of their progress; Ottawa on account of its natural advantages, industrial, social, financial and recreational, stands in a premier position with regard to the future and on account of it being the National Capital, feeling every pulse beat of the National Heart, it is great and will become greater, richer and grander as Canada realizes her destiny. No city on the continent, no capital in the world, has before it a more promising and alluring future.
19Ottawa has to-day a population of
21156,323
23inhabitants, which number is increasing at a rapid rate every year. It covers an area of 5,295½ acres, or approximately ten square miles. It has an assessed value of rateable property, which does not include the Parliament Buildings and Govern-
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