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the capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec)

From Sir John Macdonald, and the Minister of Justice, in Ottawa.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace

I was going to keep on saying it until two seconds after I got a letter from Ottawa or Chungking or some place saying, 'Yes, you can enlist with us.'
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
Mrs. Lynde says Canada is going to the dogs the way things are being run at Ottawa and that it's an awful warning to the electors.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
Groups like the "Sons of Canada" are petitioning Ottawa against us and the newspapers are printing outright lies.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
Back in Ottawa I instructed so many who were being posted all over the world.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
He was owed favors by his government, and a quiet team of bright people from Washington and Ottawa flew up to James Bay and I was acquitted.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
The auburn-haired woman now beside him at the counter spoke English But then she had said she was "waiting for word from Ottawa."
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
The Ottawa ordeal drew toward its end; but the climax was still to come.
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
I correctly answered that Tokyo was the capital of Japan, Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia, Ottawa the capital of Canada, and Bogota the capital of Colombia.
Sharon M. Draper -- Out of My Mind
Retreating to Ottawa.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
Since I had some time left, I glanced through a genealogical chart: John the Old, William Louis, Ernest Casimir I, Henry Casimir I, right up to little Margriet Franciska (born in 1943 in Ottawa).
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
For helping me complete it, I am grateful to three officials of exemplary professionalism: Mr. Kazuhiko Oda, lately of the Japanese Embassy in Ottawa; Mr. Hiroshi Watanabe, of Oika Shipping Company; and, especially, Mr. Tomohiro Okamoto, of the Japanese Ministry of Transport, now retired.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
Lincoln's success in 1860 was due in no small part to his ability to bridge the gap, a performance 5 Later, in the debate at Ottawa, Illinois, Lincoln repeated a larger passage containing this statement, and added: "this is the true complexion of all I have said in regard to the institution of slavery and the black race. that entitles him to a place among the world's great political propagandists.
Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
Richard went off on a trip to Ottawa, an important trip to Ottawa.
Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin
Richard went off on a trip to Ottawa, an important trip to Ottawa.
Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin
And I arrived in Ottawa on a rainy day; I just kept driving until I got to Toronto.
John Irving -- A Prayer for Owen Meany
Were flying over, under a deep-diplomatic, a Canadian woman-an economist for the government in Ottawa who's wanted for murder in Zurich.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
Because of the importance attached to scatology in Ottawa, I had been ordered to devote part of my time to collecting and analyzing wolf scats.
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
The leaders of the march had been decoyed to Ottawa for "official talks," and the whole kit and kaboodle had been stalled in Regina.
Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin
My own colleagues in Ottawa ... dear, dear friends I'd worked with for years ... were afraid to talk to me!
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

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