Ottawa Book of Everything

From lumber town to G-town and capital city to the Byward Market and Rideau Canal and the BeaverTail to profiles of Colonel By,AlanisMorissette, Michael Cowpland and the Stopwatch Gang, there is no book as comprehensive as the Ottawa Book of Everything. No book is more fun.

Well-known Ottawans give you their take on lesser-known aspects of Canada’s capital city. Ben Mulroney tells his five things you didn’t know about living at 24 Sussex Drive;Mike Duffy gives us the five best restaurants to overhear political gossip, filmmaker Lee Demarbre’s five best places to shoot in Ottawa. From the coldest, the hottest and the iciest weather, Ottawa’s third official language of bureaucratese, the most sensational crimes, the GG and the city’s First People – it’s all here!

If you love Ottawa, then you’ll adore the Ottawa Book of Everything!

• Table of Contents (PDF)
  
• Sample Chapter (PDF)

What people are saying

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE . . .
“We longtime residents of Ottawa have no reason to actually buy this book, right? What is there worth knowing about our hometown that we don't already know? Arthur Montague's compendium of local minutiae, points out there's more to this city than meets most eyes.”
-Bruce Deachman, The Ottawa Citizen

INSPIRED . . .
“A fun-inspired style, this book offers everything you ever wanted to know.”
-Due East

GREAT . . .
“Behind every great book is a great philosophy. A place is revealed through an accumulation of its details, one fact at a time.”
-Ottawa Life Magazine

RECOMMENDED . . .
“A great little book that is full of interesting facts as well as fun trivia.  It will keep you reading for hours.  Highly recommended.”
-Muchmor Canada

24 SUSSEX . . .
“Please know that this charming book is a welcome and fitting addition to my library at my home here in Ottawa.”
-Prime Minister Stephen Harper

A MUST-READ . . .
“This is a must-read for Ottawans as well as for those who have a penchant for political Ottawa.”
-Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien