Table of Contents INTRODUCTION . 3 CULTURE . 97 Places You Must Be Seen . Alanis Morissette . Les DeMarbre’s OTTAWA, OUR NATION’S HOMETOWN . 7 Five Best Places to Shoot . Canadian Tulip Festival . Five TV/Film Personalities From Ottawa . A Beaver Tale . Museum Central . Being Green . Get Stuffed . TIMELINE . 9 From 12,000 Before Present to 2007 . Control of the River . Philemon Wright founds Wrightsville . Construction of the Rideau ECONOMY . 115 Canal . Bytown . The Capital is Chosen . Burn Baby Burn . From GDP to Taxes . Incomes . You Said How Much? . Gates Ottawa International Airport . Centennial Flame . Ottawa Crasher . Top Five Most Expensive Homes in Ottawa . Just the Amalgamates . Right Tool . Housing . The Tiger that Roared . Silicon Valley North . Jobs and More Jobs . Five Businesses to Watch . OTTAWA ESSENTIALS . 21 Agriculture . From the Origin of the Name to Population Trends . Five Essential Ottawa Reads . G-Town . You Know You’re From Ottawa When . Death and Marriage . Family Structure . Colleges and POLITICS . 141 The Perfect Storm . Mike Duffy’s Favourite Political Gossip Hot Universities . Professional Sports Teams . Religion . Spots . Ottawa Mayors . Lady Charlotte . Keeping it in the Family . Ottawans Get Wise to Political Ploys . Voter Turnouts BUREAUCRATESE . 37 From Accountability to Whistle Blower, We Give You the Lowdown on Ottawa’s Third Official Language . THEN AND NOW . 155 Population Then and Now . Trains to Nowhere . Lords of Lumber . A Capital Controversy . Thomas Ahern . Ottawa’s URBAN GEOGRAPHY . 45 Titanic Connection . Cross Roads . Hockey Town . Three Rivers Run Through it . Barry Wellar’s Top Five Residential Streets in Ottawa . Sally Coutts and Stuart Lazear’s Five Favourite Heritage Structures . Going Green . Five Free Things to Do in FIRST PEOPLE . 169 Ottawa . Biking Country . Parliament Buildings . Living Population . Chief Tessouat . Speaking the Language . History . Creation Myth . Kirby Whiteduck’s Five Historical Claims to Algonquin Territory . Lifestyle . Aboriginal Place Names . Victoria Island . Stepping into the Past . WEATHER . 65 All Time Weather Winners . Ian Black’s Top Five Severe Weather Events . Winterlude . Five Weather-Dependent Fun Activities . GO AHEAD, TAKE FIVE MORE . 183 . Ice Storm of ‘98 . Five Hottest . Coldest Days . Growing Ben Mulroney’s Five Things You Don’t Know About 24 Sussex Drive . Seasons . When it Feels Worse than it is . Brian Kilrea’s Favourite Hockey Players . Michael Haynes’ Top Five Favourite Hiking Trails By Season . Fateema Sayani Gives Up CRIME AND PUNISHMENT . 79 Her Top Five Up and Coming Bands . Art Montague Tells His Best Ottawa Crimeline . Five Ottawa Cold Cases . In the Line of Duty . Kept Secrets . Barb Fradkin’s Five Murder Scenarios in the Nation’s . Serenity Shattered . Parliamentary Power Corruptions . In a Day’s Capital . Jacquelin Holzman’s Five Important Decisions that Work . Firebomb Murder for Hire . Ron Cooper’s Top Five Fraud Shaped Ottawa . Rhys Phillips Weighs In on His Favouite Scams . The Sorry Cop . Drug Offences . Landmark Buildings . 4 5.