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Ottawa [< Cdn F Outouan < Algonk.; cf. Cree atāweu trader; originally the name of an Algonkian tribe living in southern Ontario] 
n. the government of Canada, the capital of which is Ottawa, Ontario.
- 1869 [The Ottawa Government is taking a wise step in sending . . . peacemakers to Red River. . . .]
- 1887 Washington has been most successful in those experiments, and there is no reason why Ottawa should not be equally successful.
- 1957 With the coming to office of the Conservative Government, these airlines are hopeful for [a] bigger slice of the cake than Ottawa had been allowing them.
- 1966 In fact, Ottawa was unable to satisfy either the expectations or the needs of the provinces.
- 1869 [The Ottawa Government is taking a wise step in sending . . . peacemakers to Red River. . . .]