[waterloowarrior]

Originally Posted by eternallyme

That seems like a high estimate (I would estimate about 855,000 for the City of Ottawa right now), since the 2006 Census had a population of just under 813,000, although 835,000 was probably more realistic at the time given the high undercounts of censuses (about 3%).

you can compare city of Ottawa vs census numbers here:

http://ottawa.ca/residents/statistics/data_handbook/population/table_1_en.html

http://ottawa.ca/residents/statistics/data_handbook/population/table_2_en.html