[ot-uh-wuh] 
) -wa for 5. | 1. | a city in and the capital of Canada, in SE Ontario. 304,462. |
| 2. | a river in SE Canada, flowing SE along the boundary between Ontario and Quebec into the St. Lawrence at Montreal. 685 mi. (1105 km) long. |
| 3. | a city in NE Illinois, SW of Chicago. 18,166. |
| 4. | a town in E Kansas. 11,016. |
| 5. | a member of a tribe of Algonquian Indians of Canada, forced into the Lake Superior and Lake Michigan regions by the Iroquois confederacy. |
| 6. | the Ojibwa language as used by the Ottawa Indians. |
| Ottawa River A river, about 1,126 km (700 mi) long, rising in the Laurentian Plateau of southwest Quebec, Canada, and flowing west and southeast in a V-shaped course to the St. Lawrence River near Montreal. It was an important waterway for early fur traders and missionaries. |