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


In or near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


Geographical features

* Rideau Canal * Rideau Falls * Rideau River * Rideau Trail


Towns and places

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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 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 ...
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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

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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 ...
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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 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 *
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 ...
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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 (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 (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 i ...
(born 1942), American convicted killer


Other uses

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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 on canvas painting created circa 1893 to 1894 by French artist Paul Cézanne. It is a formal still life composition that displays Cézanne's exploration of form ...
'', 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''


See also

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Curtain (disambiguation) A curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light or similar. Curtain or curtains may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Curtain'' (film), an American silent film * ''Curtains'' (1983 film), a Canadian horror film * ...
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