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Capital Lives by Valerie Knowles
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Public Servants
In October, 1865, before the new parliament buildings were completely
finished, the first civil servants began arriving in Ottawa from
Québec City, then the capital of the Province of Canada. Their numbers
increased substantially when the federal government's expenditure
on national services multiplied seven times between 1896 and 1913,
in response to an economic boom and a dramatic increase in immigration.
Their ranks increased more than two-fold in the following decade
and dramatically during the Second World War, when Ottawa-based
federal employees would come to dominate the Ottawa scene.
The men and women in the civil service come to Ottawa from all
parts of the country and from a variety of political, ethnic, religious
and cultural backgrounds. Canadians of national horizons, they are
a breed apart. Among them have been many outstanding and talented
individuals, people such as J.R. Bourinot, Eric Brown and Marius
Barbeau, who are profiled in this book.
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