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Ottawa (City and county-seat)

a city and county-seat of Franklin co., Kan.; on the Marais des Cygnes river, and on the Missouri Pacific, and the Atchison, Topeka, and Sante Fé railroads; 58 miles S. W. of Kansas City.

Here are the Ottawa University (Bapt.), Chautauqua Assembly, high school, public library, Sante Fé Hospital, National APNA 000000000000000000 CANADIAN PARLIAMENT BUILDING AT OTTAWA manufacturing establishments and the and State banks, gas and electric lights, manufactures include wood products, and daily and weekly newspapers. It paper, cement, carbide, foundry products, mica and clothing. Ottawa is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ottawa and of the Anglican Bishop of Ottawa. The city was founded in 1827 and was incorporated under its present name in 1854. It was selected by Queen Victoria as the capital of Canada, in 1858. Pop. (1911) 87,062; (1920) 127,- 468.