25 Amazing facts about Ottawa Ontario Canada

Canada’s capital is Ottawa, it is in east of southern Ontario near city of Montreal and US border. Amazing facts about Ottawa Ontario Canada make Ottawa an amazing tourist destination in Canada.

Sitting on Ottawa River, this has centre Parliament Hill, with museums like National Gallery of Canada and grand Victorian architecture, with collection of Canadian art.

Park lined Rideau Canal is totally filled with ice skates in winter and boats in summers. Below are some fun facts about Ottawa which will surprise you:

Amazing facts about Ottawa Ontario Canada

1. Ottawa is fourth largest city in Canada.

2. Ottawa was called Bytown that named for Colonel John By, he was an engineer who oversaw the construction of Rideau Canal. In 1855 Bytown became Ottawa.

3. Queen Victoria chose Ottawa in 1857 to be capital of Canada.

4. The name Ottawa emerged from Algonquin word adawe – that means to trade.

5. Ottawa is on banks of Gatineau, Rideau and Ottawa Rivers.

6. Ottawa is seventh coldest capital in the world. Others are colder include Iceland and Tallinn Estonia, Reykjavik, Helsinki in Finland, Russia, Moscow, Kazakhstan, Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia and Astana in Russia.

7. In 1970-71 around 444.1 centimetres of snow fell during winters. Average annual snowfall in Ottawa is around 236 centimetres.

8. Hottest day in Ottawa was 37.8 C (100 F) though humidex readings go above 40C.

9. Lowest temperature which is ever recorded in Ottawa is -36.1 C (-33 F) on February 15, 1943.

10. Ottawa gets an average of 2061 hours of sunny sunshine a year. As compared to Calgary, gets 2,405 hours of sunshine in a year.

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

12. The area population of Ottawa is approx 1,236,324. Out of those, 920,000 live on Ontario side of the river.

13. Around 25% of residents of Ottawa born outside of Canada.

14. About half the population in Ottawa is under age of 3-5, which makes Ottawa a one of the youngest cities in Canada.

15. Ottawa is a multilingual city because around 32% French, 50% of people speak English and rest speak mix of other languages like Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Chinese.

16. There are around 35 major festivals in Ottawa. Canadian Tulip Festival is being held every May it is one of the most famous festival in Ottawa.

17. Ottawa Capital welcomes more than 7.3 million visitors every year.

18. Ottawa ranks most educated city in Canada.

19. Ottawa is fourth cleanest city out of the 300 major cities around the world.

20. Ottawa is being ranked in money sense for third consecutive year as best city in Canada to live in.

21. Federal Government is city’s largest employer.

22. Ottawa is agricultural center of the eastern Ontario and has much more farmland as comparatively to the other city in Canada.

23. Ottawa is home to around 1,800 technology companies that gives employment to more than 76,000 people.

24. Ottawa has more PhD’s, engineers and scientists per capita than any of the other city in Canada.

25. There are total two colleges and five universities in Ottawa.

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