August 2005
Ottawa has many beautiful places of worship, representing many faiths and denominations. Unquestionably, the most splendid of all is the Roman Catholic Cathedral-Basilica of our Lady (Notre Dame).
Construction of this stone church began in 1841 near the Byward Market on the site of an earlier small wooden church. This was the start of an enormous undertaking that has been evolving ever since. "Bytown" had only a small population at that time and the parishioners were only able to begin work on what would
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