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John By, founder of the future Ottawa and builder of the Rideau Canal, was featured prominently in the Ottawa Citizen ahead of this year\u2019s Colonel By Day holiday on Aug. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Spanning the first three pages of the Aug. 4 <em>Citizen<\/em>, including a front-page photo of Boswell holding an inscribed chunk of masonry gathered from a damaged wall of the canal, the essay recounted the spending controversy that unfairly tarnished By\u2019s reputation at the end of his life and Boswell\u2019s journey to Frant, England to place the canal fragment on By\u2019s grave. The gravesite pilgrimage was a side-trip taken while Boswell was conducting research in the U.K. for a planned book on another early figure from Ottawa history, Dr. Edward Van Cortlandt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy went to his grave \u2014 prematurely at age 56 \u2014 under a cloud of controversy. At the unhappy end of his truncated life, he had been robbed of the respect he was owed for his many contributions to the British Empire and denied the adulation he especially deserved for building the Rideau Canal,\u201d Boswell wrote in the piece. \u201cSo, this little gift to the Colonel brought from the city he founded \u2014 a symbolic bit of stone from the most enduring monument to By\u2019s ingenuity and sterling sense of duty \u2014 seemed a fair gesture of gratitude. I gave John By a keepsake shard of his magnificent canal to reassure him that history is now firmly on his side.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record on Colonel By set straight An essay by journalism professor Randy Boswell on the legacy of Lt.-Col. John By, founder of the future Ottawa and builder of the Rideau Canal, was featured prominently in the Ottawa Citizen ahead of this year\u2019s Colonel By Day holiday on Aug. 6. 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