What is the history of Manotick?
Manotick grew around mills on the Rideau River. Moss Kent Dickinson founded the village in 1864 and named it after the Algonquin word for "island". A stone mill was built in 1859–1860, and Manotick joined the City of Ottawa at amalgamation in 2001.
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Long Island Locks was settled from 1833 around the Rideau Canal locks. Dickinson House, built in 1863, was the first major building. The mill became Watson's Mill in 1946 and a museum after the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority bought it in 1972.
As commercial traffic on the canal declined, the village's population fell, then rebounded as Manotick came to be seen as a bedroom community for Ottawa.
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