15 Fun Facts about Ottawa which you will enjoy to know

Facts about Ottawa: Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. Ottawa stands on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Quebec and Gatineau, these 2 form the core of the Ottawa – National Capital Region (NCR) and Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA).

As of 2016 Ottawa is city having population of 934,243 and metropolitan city of 1,323,783 population which makes it fifth-largest CMA and fourth largest city in Canada.

Founded in year 1826 as Bytown, and was incorporated as “Ottawa” in year 1855, this city has evolved into technological and political centre of Canada. Its boundaries were expanded by numerous annexations and ultimately were replaced by new city amalgamation and incorporation in 2001 which increased its area. “Ottawa” name was chosen in reference to Ottawa River, and this name was derived from Algonquin Odawa, which means “to trade”.

Below are 15 Fun Facts about Ottawa which you will enjoy to know:

– Ottawa is Capital of Canada.

– Ottawa is 4th largest city in Canada.

– Ottawa was called Bytown which was named for Colonel John By, he was an engineer who overlook construction of Rideau Canal. In year 1855 Bytown was incorporated and then became Ottawa.

– In 1857 Ottawa was chosen by Queen Victoria to be capital of Canada.

– Name Ottawa emerged from Algonquin word adawe – that means to trade.

– Ottawa is located on banks of the Gatineau, Rideau and Ottawa Rivers.

– Ottawa is 7th coldest capital in the world. Others are most coldest are Iceland and Tallin in Estonia, Reykjavik, Helsinki in Finland, Russia, Moscow, Astana in Kazakhastan and Ulaan-Baatar in Mongolia.

– In year 1970-71, 444.1 centimeters of snow was recorded, it was top most cm of snow that fell over during winter.

– Average annual snowfall in Ottawa is around 236 centimeters.

– Hottest day in Ottawa was recorded 37.8 C as humidex readings usually go above 40C.

– Lowest temperature which is ever recorded in Ottawa was -36.1 C on February 15, 1943.

– Ottawa receives 2061 hours of bright sunshine a year, it is average time of sunshine. Compare that Calgary that Calgary gets around 2405 hours of sunshine per year, it is highest of any of the major Canadian city.

– During summer sun rises at around 5:14 am and sets around at 8:54pm. During winters sun rises at 7:39 am and sets at around 4:23 pm.

– Area population of Metro Ottawa is approx. 1,236,324. Out of those, around 920,000 live on Ontario side of river.

– 25% of Ottawa residents were born outside Canada.

– About half of the population is under age of 35 which makes this youngest cities in country.

– Ottawa is multilingual city. Around 50% of people speak 32% French and English, and rest of the people speak mixture of other languages including Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Chinese.

– There are around 35 festivals which are being celebrated in Ottawa. Canadian Tulip Festival, is being held every May, it very famous and most lovable festival in Ottawa.

– Ottawa welcomes around or more than 7.3 million visitors in a year.

– Ottawa ranks most educated city in Canada.

– According to Forbes, Ottawa is 4th cleanest city out of 30 major cities.