When the Nazis took Holland during the Second World War, the Dutch Royal Family escaped to Canada and made Ottawa their home-in-exile.

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The authors, Pat and Rosemarie Keough, are veterans of coffee-table book publishing in Canada, having put together six previous brisk-selling volumes (including The Ottawa Valley Portfolio).

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Three Air Canada flights -- from Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa - arrived at Heathrow on Friday morning.

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Ottawa, Canada, on Wednesday, 12 May, in the morning, for his first official visit to the country.

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Ottawa, Canada (CNN) -- A Canadian teenager, who was allegedly gang-raped and bullied, has died, her family said.

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At the time, Arar, a Syrian-born software engineer, was living in Ottawa, Canada.

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Michael Geist holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law.

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But the contraction carries a more chilling message for other parts of the country, which may be less well-off than Ottawa but just as reliant on the American market: 86% of Canada's exports one-third of all production goes to the United States.

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The airline was operating 15 flights, two more than usual, from Heathrow to Canada on Friday -- seven to Toronto, three to Vancouver, two to Calgary and one each to Ottawa, Halifax and Montreal.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement in the capital, Ottawa, after asking Governor-General David Johnston, Queen Elizabeth's II representative in Canada, to dissolve parliament.

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