Excerpt from Records of the Rise and Progress of the City of Ottawa: From the Foundation of the Rideau Canal to the Present Time On reading the history of Canada, it is greatly to be regretted that many most important events, connected with its rise and progress, are lost to us for ever, simply because no record of passing events was kept at the time. With a view, in some measure, of obviating similar mis fortunes, occurring in the early history of our infant city, I have thrown a few imperfect notes together, and for which I do not lay any claim to originality, having derived all my information from other parties. To the Introduction I am entitled to no merit whatever, nor could I be, inasmuch as it in a great measure refers to events which fell under the cognizance of the writer, but which took place some years before the period of my birth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.