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Lieutenant-Colonel John By (7 August 1779 – 1 February 1836) was a British military engineer, best remembered for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal and, in the process, founded Bytown, that would become the city of Ottawa.
Born in Lambeth in London, England in 1779 to George By and Mary Bryan. By studied at the Royal Military Academy. He entered Officer Training in the army when he was 18 years old. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery on 1 August 1799 but transferred to the Royal Engineers on 20 December the same year. In 1802 he was posted to Canada for the first time, where he worked on the fortification of Quebec City and on improving the navigability of the Saint Lawrence River. During the Napoleonic wars he returned to Europe, where he served in Spain under the Duke of Wellington from 1811 until 1815.
With the end of the war By retired from the military but in 1826, in view of his engineering experience in Canada, he was recalled and returned to Canada to supervise the construction of the Rideau Canal. Since the canal was to begin in the wild and sparsely populated Ottawa River valley, his first task was the construction of a town to house the men who were to work on the canal, and associated services. The resulting settlement, called Bytown in his honour, would later be renamed to Ottawa, ultimately becoming the capital of Canada.
Colonel By Drive (French: Promenade Colonel By) is an 8.1 km (5.0 mi) long scenic parkway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs along the Rideau Canal from the end of Sussex Drive at Rideau Street. It then continues 8 km (5.0 mi) south and west to Hog's Back Road, winding through several residential areas and going past Dow's Lake and Carleton University. To the north, the road passes Department of National Defence Headquarters, the Ottawa Congress Centre and the Westin Hotel before ending at Wellington Street and Rideau Street The rear door of the Government Conference Centre can be accessed from the street as well, after it passes under the Mackenzie King Bridge. It is named for Colonel John By, who built the Rideau Canal. The winding two-lane road has a speed limit of 60 km/h (37 mph).
For many decades the area east of the canal had held Ottawa's main rail lines connecting to the Ottawa Train Station near the northern end of the canal. In the mid-1960s the train station was controversially relocated about 3 km (1.9 mi) southeast in an industrial area in the east end of the city, leaving the area on the eastern bank of the canal open for development. The National Capital Commission thus decided to create a scenic parkway. The Queen Elizabeth Driveway, another scenic Canadian parkway, already served the same purpose on the other side of the canal.
Colonel (abbreviated Col., Col or COL and pronounced /ˈkɜːrnəl/, similar to "kernel") is a senior military officer rank below the general officer ranks. However, in some small military forces, such as those of Iceland or the Vatican, colonel is the highest rank. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations.
Historically, in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a colonel was typically in charge of a regiment in an army. Modern usage varies greatly.
The rank of colonel is typically above the rank of lieutenant colonel. The rank above colonel is typically called brigadier, brigade general or brigadier general.
Equivalent naval ranks may be called captain or ship-of-the-line captain. In the Commonwealth air force rank system, the equivalent rank is group captain.
The word "colonel" derives from the same root as the word "column" (Italian: colonna) and means "of a column", and, by implication, "commander of a column". The word "colonel" is therefore linked to the word "column" in a similar way that "brigadier" is linked to "brigade", although in English this relationship is not immediately obvious. By the end of the late medieval period, a group of "companies" was referred to as a "column" of an army.
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Lynn and Adam triking the Colonel By Drive on a Sunday Bike Day in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Lynn is riding the Catrike Trail and Adam is riding the Catrike Speed. The soundtrack is free music (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License), Dead of Night by Jono Bacon, with additional vocals by Emelye Evans. The song is available free at http://www.jonobacon.org/creative/ Our home website is http://web.ncf.ca/adamandlynn/ This video was created with Pitivi 0.95 and the audio was edited with Audacity 2.1.2, all running on the Lubuntu 16.04 LTS Linux-based operating system.
My ride along the historic Rideau Canal on the Colonel By side of it from Hogs Back rd to Rideau Street. Note how nice the Parliament Buildings are with the setting sun in the background.
Collision of 2 cars on Colonel By Drive near Hogs Back in Ottawa
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TITLE: Ottawa Bad Drivers - Colonel By Dr. Speeder Show Off INCIDENT: Was driving South down Colonel By Drive just past the University of Ottawa Pedestrian crossing. While going the speed limit, I see a car far behind me getting really close really fast. After I pass the concrete median the driver overtakes me on a solid line going extremely fast and doesn't give much room when cutting back into the right lane. I managed to catch up with the vehicle at a red light. The driver also doesn't know how to stop behind the stop line. It looks like the passenger tries to get out of the car, but at the next intersection it looks like his buddy catches up which is probably why he tried to get out in the first place. They eventually both turned left at the next lights and were on their way. Public ...
Ruth and Jane drive our Rhoades Car 4W2PCP on the Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on a Sunday Bike day, 8 June 2008. For more information our quadracycling website is http://web.ncf.ca/adamandruth/quadracycle/ This video was made with Avidemux 2.5.2 movie editor running on the Ubuntu 10.04 operating system.
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Colonel By Drive home featured in the May Court homes tour
Collision of 2 cars on Colonel By Drive near Hogs Back in Ottawa
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Obama motorcade on Colonel By Drive in Ottawa
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