Ottawa History

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History

he first European settlement in the region was that of Philemon Wright who
started a community on the Quebec side of the river in 1800. Wright discovered that transporting timber by river from the Ottawa Valley to Montreal was possible, and the area was soon booming based almost exclusively upon the timber trade.


In 2001, the old city of Ottawa (estimated 2005 population 350,000) was amalgamated

with the suburbs of Nepean (135,000), Kanata (85,000), Gloucester (120,000), Rockcliffe

Park (2,100), Vanier (17,000) and Cumberland (55,000), and the rural townships of West

Carleton (18,000), Osgoode (13,000), Rideau (18,000) and Goulbourn (24,000), along with

the systems and infrastructure of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, to

become one municipality. Ottawa-Carleton used to be just Carleton County before 1969

and consisted of what is now the City of Ottawa except for Cumberland.