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Stories Set in Ottawa
Parliament spires, canal skates and polite intrigue: Ottawa is the capital Canada built to be boring, and spy stories love it for exactly that — low profile, high access. Argo plotted its rescue from here; an Italian crew once shot a Dirty Harry knockoff, Shadows in an Empty Room, around Parliament Hill. Open Ottawa on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 5 books and 3 movies set in Ottawa.
Argo
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Moonheart
When Sara and Jamie discovered the seemingly ordinary artifacts, they sensed the pull of a dim and distant place. A world of mists and forests, of ancient magics, mythical beings, ageless bards...and restless evil.Now,…
Shadows in an Empty Room
An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon…
One Lucky Vampire
Luck be a vampire tonight . . .When Nicole Phillips agreed to hire a housekeeper, she pictured someone a little frumpy and almost certainly female. Instead, she gets gorgeous, unmistakably male Jake Colson. The man is…
Spiritwalk
Tamson House, in modern, urban Ottawa, is a rambling, eccentric curiosity of a house - and a place of hidden Power. Built at a point where the leylines meet, upon land that was once a sacred site, it is the gateway to a…
A Student of Weather
From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the…
Danny Williams: The War with Ottawa
John Efford . . . roared down from Ottawa to St. John’s and issued his famous ultimatum to Danny Williams on Paul Martin’s latest offer on the Accord: “Take it or leave it.” Danny’s comeback? “Let me answer Mr. Efford…
IMPACT Wrestling: Bound For Glory
Bound for Glory (2017) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Impact Wrestling. It took place on November 5 2017 at the Aberdeen Pavilion in Ottawa Ontario. It was the thirteenth event under…
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