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The British Empire League was an association formed in 1895 in London for the purpose of promoting trade between the United Kingdom, the colonies and India; fostering closer intercourse between the different portions of the empire by the establishment of cheaper and more direct steam postal and telegraphic communication; devising a more perfect co-operation of the military and naval forces of the empire, with a special view to the due protection of the trade routes; assimilating, as far as possible, the laws relating to copyright, patents, legitimacy, and bankruptcy throughout the empire; the calling of periodic conferences to deal with these and similar questions on the lines of the London Conference of 1887 and the Ottawa Conference of 1894.
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The Canadian Pacific Railway is a line of railway which traverses British North America from the St Lawrence to the Pacific. One of the conditions upon which the province of British Columbia in 1871 entered the Dominion of Canada was the construction of such a railway. Since that time more than one act had been passed empowering different companies to go on with the work. Eventually, however, it was completed, according to arrangement with the Canadian government, by a syndicate of London, Paris, and American capitalists, being opened for general traffic in June, 1886. Commencing at Montreal, the line goes on to Ottawa, thence round the north of the Great Lakes to Port Arthur at the head of Lake Superior, and thence to Winnipeg, Manitoba, thence to Stephen in the Rocky Mountains, then across British Columbia to Vancouver on the Pacific. Vancouver, now a thriving city, owes its existence to this railway. The line was of great importance not only as a means of communication between Europe and Eastern Asia and Australasia, but also as a military highway binding together the great masses of the British Empire during the late 19th century.
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The Algonquin (Algonkin) were scattered small groups of American Indians speaking Algonkian languages and living in forest regions around the Ottawa River in Ontario, Canada. Most were slaughtered by the Iroquois or died of European diseases although about 2000 still survive.
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John By was an English engineer. He was born in 1781 and died in 1836. After serving in the Peninsular War he went in 1826 to Canada, where he constructed the Rideau Canal between the St Lawrence and the Great Lakes. By-town (Ottawa) was named after him.
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Dan Aykroyd (real name Daniel Agraluscarsacra) is a Canadian actor. He was born in 1952 at Ottawa. While studying sociology at Carleton University he started writing comedy skeyches and left university to go to Toronto where he performed with the Second City improvization comedy troupe where he was seen by John Belushi who introduced him to television.
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Kelly Rowan is a Canadian actress. She was born in 1967 at Ottawa. Raised in Toronto, she started acting on canadian television when she was 19 before moving to Los Angeles.
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Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer and actress. She was born in 1939 at Ottawa, Ontario.
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Sarah Chalke is a Canadian actress. She was born in 1976 at Ottawa, Ontario. She is perhaps best known for her role as 'Dr Elliot Reid' in the 2001 television series 'Scrubs'.
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Suzanne Cloutier is a Canadian actress. She was born in 1927 at Ottawa, Ontario. She played 'Stella' in the 1954 film 'Doctor In The House'.
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The Ottawa Rough Riders are a Canadian professional football team.
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