What Ottawa’s not: a ‘sub-Arctic lumber camp,’ ‘a really sick town,’ or ‘like Regina only smaller’
'Fluffy rabbit' Ottawa has the largest Inuit population outside the Arctic. It is the only place where you can see Hitler's car, Lincoln's life mask, and a long-extinct passenger pigeon.
It's the place the whole country loves to cuff. "A really sick town," Brian Mulroney called it. "Sub-Arctic lumber camp," wrote a 19th century editor. "Dullest reputation of any Canadian city," reported The London Daily Telegraph. "Like Regina only smaller," jokes a friend fro...
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