Yannick Loranger, owner of Ottawa River Guided Fishing, used to see a full ice-fishing season run from Jan. 1 to March 15. In recent years he has barely seen it last two months. Last year his seas ...

The last bridge erected over the Ottawa River, the Portage Bridge, was completed in 1973. At that time, MacKinnon noted, the population of the region was 600,000. It is now over 1.3 million.