at, 26,
40, 121; Haldimand returns to, from Niagara, 27; Indians around, 28;
derivation of name, 32; Amherst at, 33, 34, 35; Haldimand insists on
importance of suitably fortifying, 142; fear of rebels taking post, 150;
retaken, after falling into hands of enemy, by Major Ross, 157;
Loyalists at, 250; Haldimand's determination regarding defence of, 260.
=WM= Capture of, 34.

=Otis, Charles Pomeroy.= =Ch= Translator of Champlain's _Voyages_, 277.

=Otoucha.= =Ch= Huron village, 88.

=Ottawa.= Formerly Bytown. Founded about the year 1827, and named after
Colonel By, a Royal Engineer, who built the Rideau Canal, and whose
workmen formed the nucleus of the infant town. The name was changed to
Ottawa in 1854, and Queen Victoria, in 1858, selected the place as the
seat of government. In 1867 it became the capital of the new Dominion.
=Index=: =E= Selected as seat of government, and later as capital of the
Dominion, 79. =B= Selection of, as capital, opposed by George Brown,
100. _See also_ Bytown. =Bib.=: Edgar, _Canada and its Capital_;
Gourlay, _History of the Ottawa Valley_; Gard, _The Hub and the Spokes_;
Scott, _The Choice of the Capital_. _See also_ papers by Mrs. H. J.
Friel, M. Jamieson, F. G. Kenny, Eva Read, in Women's Can. Hist. Soc. of
Ottawa _Trans._, vol. 1; B. Sulte, _The Name of Ottawa_ in Ottawa Lit. &
Sc. Soc. _Trans._, 1898-1899.

=Ottawa Indians.= A tribe of the Algonquian family. First mentioned in
Champlain's narrative, 1615. The explorer met a party of these Indians
on French River. They were called the _Cheveux Releves_, because of
their peculiar method of dressing the hair. They occupied Manitoulin
Island from about 1615 to 1650; were attacked and dispersed by the
Iroquois the latter year, and settled West of Green Bay. They were keen
fur traders, and throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century
continued to bring down quantities of furs from the west to Montreal by
way of the Ottawa River. Fought under Pontiac in 1763; made peace with
Sir William Johnson at Niagara in 1764. A few thousand are now scattered
on reservations in Ontario. =Index=: =F= Keen for trade and cheap goods,
259; entertained at Quebec, 310. =Hd= Sioux offer to attack, 148.
=Bib.=: Pilling, _Bibliography of Algonquian Languages_; Champlain,
_Voyages_; Parkman, _Conspiracy of Pontiac_; Schoolcraft, _Indian Tribes
of the United States_; _Jesuit Relations_, ed. by Thwaites. _See also_
Sulte's papers in the Royal Society o