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 Relevés, 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 of Canada Trans., 1903 and 1904.
Ottawa River. A tributary of the St. Lawrence. Total length, 685 miles. Explored by Champlain in 1613 and 1615. Named after Ottawa Indians. The river formed for many years the thoroughfare of explorers, missionaries, and fur traders, from Montreal to the far West. It will furnish the major portion of the route of the proposed Georgian Bay Canal. Index: P Papineau's home at Montebello, 6. Bib.: Champlain, Voyages; Sulte, The Valley of the Grand River, 1600-1650 (R. S. C., 1898-1899); Parkman, Pioneers of France; Keefer, Montreal and the Ottawa; Stewart, Georgian Bay Canal.
Ottawa, University of. Established, 1848. Originally incorporated under the title of "College of Bytown"; received the title of "College of Ottawa," 1866. Pope Leo XIII raised it to the rank of a Roman Catholic University, 1889. It suffered from a serious fire, 1903. The university is conducted by the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate.
Otway's Regiment. WM On British right, 189.
Ouendats. Ch General name given by French to four Huron tribes, 89.
Ouentaron. S Indian name of Lake Simcoe, 93. See also Lake Simcoe.
Ourouehate. See Big Mouth.
Overman. Ch Farmer of county of Renfrew, Ontario, discovers astrolabe lost by Champlain, 76.
Owen, Admiral. W Member of New Brunswick Council, 69.
Pabos. Hd Haldimand acquires seigniory of, 50; sends his nephew there, 73; not profitable, 111.