One half at a time, Ottawa River gets heritage status

The Quebec side of the Ottawa River is finally just as historic as the Ontario side — but the new status doesn’t bring any new form of automatic protection.
The designation by Quebec Monday celebrates the river’s history as a superhighway and focus of human settlement in the thousands of years before roads.
It is one of North America’s most important flyways, providing habitat to more than 300 species of birds, and sustains more than 80 species at risk.
The Ontario s