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Official name. Billings House National Historic Site of Canada. Designated. 1968. The Billings Estate National Historic Site is a heritage museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 2100 Cabot St. in the former home of one of the region's earliest settlers. The oldest wood-framed house in Ottawa was built in 1827-9 by Massachusetts ...
CN Rail created some early hopes with the UAC TurboTrain, in its Toronto–Montreal route during the 1960s. The TurboTrain was a true HST, achieving speeds as high as 201 km/h (125 mph) in regular service. The Turbo went 225 km/h (140 mph) in a speed run April 26, 1976 [7] and may have attained even higher speeds in test runs in 1968–69.
This is a list of properties which have been designated by the City of Ottawa under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act as having cultural heritage value or interest. At many properties, a bronze plaque gives a bilingual description of the property's history.
Canadian provincial and territorial postal abbreviations are used by Canada Post in a code system consisting of two capital letters, to represent the 13 provinces and territories on addressed mail. These abbreviations allow automated sorting . ISO 3166-2:CA identifiers' second elements are all the same as these; ISO adopted the existing Canada ...
Coordinates: 44.990°N 75.752°W. Area codes 613, 343, and 753 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Ottawa and surrounding Eastern Ontario, Canada. Area code 613 is one of the 86 original North American area codes assigned in October 1947. Area code 343 was assigned to the numbering plan area in an overlay ...
There are 26 National Historic Sites in Ottawa, [1] of which two ( Laurier House and the Rideau Canal) are administered by Parks Canada (identified below by the beaver icon ). [2] The Rideau Canal, which extends to Lake Ontario at Kingston, was designated in 1925 and was the first site designated in Ottawa. [3]
This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is K. Postal codes beginning with K are located within the City of Ottawa, and surrounding eastern and central regions of the Canadian province of Ontario. Only the first three characters are listed, corresponding to the Forward Sortation Area (FSA).
Postal codes in Canada. A Canadian postal code ( French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [1] Like British, Irish and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth ...