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The Ottawa and Gatineau rivers were historically important in the logging and lumber industries and the Rideau as part of the Rideau Canal system for military, commercial and, subsequently, recreational purposes. In 1958 the was established as a from the passing of the National Capital Act to implement the Greber Plan recommendations-which it accomplished during the 1960s and 1970s.In the previous 50 years, other commissions, plans and projects had failed to implement plans to improve the capital such as the 1899 Ottawa Improvement Commission (OIC), The Todd Plan in 1903, The Holt Report in 1915 and The Federal District Commission (FDC) established in 1927. Greber's plan included the creation of the, the, the highway system, the relocation of downtown Union Station (now the ) to the suburbs, the removal of the street car system, the decentralization of selected government offices, the relocation of industries and removal of substandard housing from the downtown and the creation of the Rideau Canal and Ottawa River pathways to name just a few of its recommendations. Prime Minister hired French architect-planner to design an urban plan for managing development in the National Capital Region, to make it more esthetically pleasing and more befitting a location for Canada's political centre. Greber plan's surrounding the urban core.Ottawa's former industrial appearance was vastly altered by the 1950. The building of the canal attracted many land speculators to the area.The canal's military purpose was to provide a secure route between Montreal and on, bypassing a particularly vulnerable stretch of the bordering the state of that had left re-supply ships bound for southwestern Ontario easily exposed to enemy fire during the.Ī new (now the ) was constructed in 1939 beside the War Memorial because the original post office building on the proposed Confederation Square grounds had to be demolished. Camp used by soldiers and labourers of the, on the south side of the in 1826. The following year, the town was named after British military engineer Colonel who was responsible for the entire Rideau Waterway construction project. Wright pioneered the (soon to be the area's most significant economic activity) by transporting timber by river from the Ottawa Valley to Quebec City., Ottawa's original name, was founded as a community in 1826 when hundreds of land speculators were attracted to the south side of the river when news spread that British authorities were immediately constructing the northerly end of the military project at that location. He, with five other families and twenty-five labourers, set about to create an agricultural community called Wrightsville.
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The first maps of the area used the word Ottawa, derived from the Algonquin word adawe ('to trade', used in reference to the area's importance to First Nations traders), to name the river., a, created the first European settlement in the area on 7 March 1800 on the north side of the river, across from the present day city of Ottawa in. Many missionaries would follow the early explorers and traders.
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