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Green Island in Ontario , Canada , is an island at the end of the Rideau River , at the Rideau Falls at the confluence with the Ottawa River . It is situated in the neighbourhood of New Edinburgh . The island is the location of Old City Hall , of the old city of Ottawa , before the amalgamation of the region in 2001 . The island also includes several war memorials, including tributes to members of the Commonwealth Air Forces in World War II and to Canadian veterans of the Spanish Civil War . To the west of the island is the National Research Council , Foreign Affairs Canada and International Trade Canada ; to the east is 24 Sussex Drive and the embassy of France . On either side of the falls are facilities for a Hydroelectric power plant. Down the Rideau river are the ruins of a rail bridge that once led to Ottawa's Union Station . The building of an expensive addition to the city hall (designed by Moshe Safdie ), architect of the National Gallery Of Canada shortly before the building was decommissioned was a source of controversy in the city. Allegedly, the controversy is commemorated onsite by a sculpture of a man in a rocket ship, which, it is claimed, depicts the banishment of the mayor. |
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