Everything you wanted to know about Ottawa and were going to ask anyway. From lumber town to G-town and capital city to the Byward Market and Rideau Canal and the BeaverTail to profiles of Colonel By, Alanis Morissette, 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, film maker 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!
Art Montague is a Canadian author and freelance writer recently moved from Ottawa, Ontario, to the historic nearby community of Perth. He continues to write in those areas which interest him the most -- history, crime, biography. Canadian themes are foremost in many of his works.
Art has placed more than 200 feature articles, essays, and short fiction in various print magazines and webzines. He has authored five popular histories, one crime fiction novella, and a bestselling Canadian travel book. The Canadian Horse (James Lorimer & Co., Publisher) is his newest release.
