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2,000 in Canada [3] Website. roots .com. Roots Corporation ( doing business as Roots) is a publicly held Canadian brand that sells apparel, leather bags, small leather goods, footwear, athletic wear, and home furnishings. The company was founded in 1973 in Toronto, Ontario, by Michael Budman and Don Green. In 2015, Roots was sold to Searchlight ...
Italian Canadians ( Italian: italocanadesi) are Canadian -born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who migrated to Canada as part of Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Canada. According to the 2021 Census of Canada, 1,546,390 Canadians (4.3% of the total population) claimed full or ...
Orthodox. Adath Jeshurun, founded in 1904 on King Edward Avenue, designed by John William Hurrell Watts. [ 2] The building still exists, but is now the Ottawa French Seventh-day Adventist Church. Agudath Achim, founded in 1912 on Rideau Street, designed by Cecil Burgess. B'nai Jacob Congregation, founded in 1910, in what is today Centretown [ 3]
The Jewish community in Ottawa grew rapidly between the 1850s and the early 20th century, settling mainly in the Lower Town area. According to the census, the Jewish population went from a mere 4 people in 1861 to 398 by 1901, and then grew to 1,776 by 1911, continuing to rise. Jewish traders became predominant in the ByWard Market.
Kimiwan: Cree word for rainy. Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Provincial Park (Wood Buffalo Park). Kitaskino Nuwenëné is both Cree and Dene meaning “our land.”. Lake Minnewanka: "Water of the Spirits" in Sioux (Nakoda/Stoney language) Lily Lake—name is translation of Indigenous place name.
The following is a list of mayors of Ottawa. Until 1854, Ottawa was known as Bytown. Over the course of Ottawa's history, the borders of the municipality have greatly expanded through annexations. This most recently occurred in 2001 when a number of neighbouring communities were amalgamated with Ottawa.
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