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Month: February 2018

Save the Falls

Save the Falls

February 3, 2018 Rebekah Ingram Comments 0 comment

Save the Falls   Over this week I’ve come to understand a lot more about a specific location and its associated place names in what is today known as the city of Ottawa. In 1613, Champlain observed this place, writing, “the water fall s…..with such impetuosity on a rock that with the passage of time, it has hallowed out a wide, deep basin…..the water whirls about to such an extent, and in the middle boils so vigorously, that Indians call…

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