Rideau (French for "curtain") may refer to:

In or near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Geographical features

Rideau Canal The Rideau Canal, also known unofficially as the Rideau Waterway, connects Canada's capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, to Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River at Kingston. It is 202 kilometres long. The name ''Rideau'', French for "curtain", ...

Rideau Falls The Rideau Falls (french: Chutes de la rivière Rideau) are two 11-metre waterfalls located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where the Rideau River empties into the Ottawa River. The falls are divided by Green Island, with Ottawa's Old City Hall j ...

Rideau River The Rideau River (french: Rivière Rideau) is a river in Eastern Ontario, Canada. The river flows north from Upper Rideau Lake and empties into the Ottawa River at the Rideau Falls in Ottawa, Ontario. Its length is . As explained in a writin ...

* Rideau Trail

Towns and places

Rideau Ferry, Ontario Rideau Ferry is a small community in Eastern Ontario, Canada, along the Rideau Waterway. Rideau Ferry straddles a narrow stretch of water joining the Big Rideau Lake to the Lower Rideau Lake. At Rideau Ferry, the south shore of the Rideau Waterway ...

Rideau Lakes, Ontario Rideau Lakes is a township (Canada), township located within Leeds and Grenville United Counties in Eastern Ontario, Canada. The township was incorporated on 1 January 1998 by amalgamating the former townships of North Crosby, South Crosby, Basta ...

Rideau Street Rideau Street (french: Rue Rideau) is a major street in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and one of Ottawa's oldest and most famous streets running from Wellington Street in the west to Montreal Road in the east where it connects to the Vanier ...

Rideau Township, Ontario Rideau is an historic township in eastern Ontario, Canada. It is located in the rural parts of the City of Ottawa, in the extreme south. Its eastern boundary is the Rideau River, its namesake. The township was created in 1974 after the amalgamat ...

* Rideau View

Buildings and structures

Rideau Centre The Rideau Centre (french: Centre Rideau) (corporately styled as CF Rideau Centre) is a three-level shopping centre on Rideau Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It borders on Rideau Street, the ByWard Market, the Rideau Canal, the Mackenzie Ki ...

Rideau Hall Rideau Hall (officially Government House) is the official residence in Ottawa of both the Canadian monarch and their representative, the governor general of Canada. It stands in Canada's capital on a estate at 1 Sussex Drive, with the main b ...

Rideau High School Rideau High School was an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada . It was located at 815 St. Laurent Boulevard in the east end of the city on the edge of Vanier. It was located next to the Queen Elizabeth ...

Rideau Valley The Rideau Valley is a watershed in Eastern Ontario, Canada, which is drained by the Rideau River. The valley includes towns such as Kemptville, Portland, Perth, Smiths Falls, Merrickville (the birthplace of Sir John Merrick) and Manotick Man ...

Clubs and organizations

Rideau Canoe Club The Rideau Canoe Club (RCC) is a canoe club located on the Rideau River in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The club is located at Mooney's Bay Park#Mooney's Bay, Mooney's Bay, where the Rideau Canal splits away from the river prior to joining up with the ...

Rideau Club The Rideau Club is a private social club in Ottawa, Ontario. The club was founded in 1865 by Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir George-Étienne Cariter as a gentlemen's club, but since 1979 has been mixed-sex. For much of its history the club was pop ...

Rideau Curling Club The Rideau Curling Club is a curling facility and organization located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1888, the Rideau Curling Club maintains a rivalry with the Ottawa Curling Club. History The original club began operation in November, ...

People with the surname

* Brandon Rideau (born 1982), American football player *

Iris Rideau Iris Rideau (born c. 1937) is a French Creole winemaker, businesswoman and activist. She is the first Creole-American winemaker to own and operate a winery in the United States. Early life Rideau was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, a paternal de ...

(born c. 1937), American French Creole winemaker *

Laquincy Rideau Laquincy Rideau (born March 28, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for Punto Rojo LR of the Liga Ecuatoriana de Baloncesto. He played college basketball for the Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs and South Florida Bulls. Early lif ...

(born 1996), American basketball player *

Stéphane Rideau Stéphane Rideau (born 25 July 1976) is a French actor. Although intending to pursue a career in sports, he was discovered in 1992 at a rugby game and then auditioned for a role in the film ''Les Roseaux sauvages'' (''Wild Reeds'') by André Téc ...

(born 1976), French actor *

Wilbert Rideau Wilbert Rideau (born February 13, 1942) is an American convicted killer and former death row inmate from Lake Charles, Louisiana, who became an author and award-winning journalist while held for 44 years at Angola Prison. Rideau was convicted in ...

(born 1942), American convicted killer

Other uses

Rideau (company) Rideau ( ; ) Recognition is a private, North American based company that provides corporate and governmental recognition programs and products. Founded in 1912 as the Stephenson Company, the company has undergone several buyouts and ventures in di ...

, a Canada-based company providing recognition programs and products *

Rideau Arcott The Rideau Arcott is a breed of domestic sheep native to Canada, one of only a few livestock breeds native to the country. History The Rideau Arcott was produced from a breeding program that was created in 1966 by Agriculture Canada’s Animal R ...

, a Canadian breed of domestic sheep *''

Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier ''Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier'' (English: ''Curtain, Jug and Fruit Bowl'') is an Oil painting, oil on canvas painting created circa 1893 to 1894 by French artist Paul Cézanne. It is a formal still life composition that displays Cézanne's explor ...

'', a painting c. 1893 by Paul Cézanne *

Rideau Park (Edmonton) Rideau Park is a residential neighbourhood in southwest Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The name Rideau means curtain in the French Language. The neighbourhood is bounded on the west by 111 Street, on the east by Calgary Trail, on the north by Whit ...

, a neighbourhood in Alberta, Canada *

Rideau Park Rideau Park is a residential neighbourhood in southwest Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The name Rideau means curtain in the French Language. The neighbourhood is bounded on the west by 111 Street, on the east by Calgary Trail, on the north by Whit ...

, a community in

Roxboro, Calgary Roxboro is an inner city residential neighbourhood in the southwest quadrant of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is bounded to the north and west by the Elbow River and to the south by 33 Avenue SW of Roxboro, in a bend of the Elbow River, lies th ...

, Canada *

The Curtain (essay) ''The Curtain'' is a seven-part essay by Milan Kundera, along with '' The Art of the Novel'' and ''Testaments Betrayed'' composing a type of trilogy of book-length essays on the European novel. ''The Curtain'' was originally published as ''Le Ri ...

, by Milan Kundera, published 2005 as ''Le Rideau'' * ''Curtains'' (1995 film), a 1995 Canadian short film, in English and French, also known as ''Rideau''