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

In or near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Geographical features

Rideau Canal The Rideau Canal is a 202-kilometre long canal that links the Ottawa River at Ottawa with the Cataraqui River and Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Its 46 Lock (water navigation), locks raise boats from the Ottawa River 83 metres (272 ...

Rideau Falls The Rideau Falls () are two 11-metre (36 ft.) 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 just to the south. To the w ...

Rideau River The Rideau River (, ) 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 writing by Samuel de Champl ...

Rideau Trail The Rideau Trail is a hiking trail in Ontario, Canada, linking Ottawa and Kingston.Trischuk, Ernie, and Linda Hayes, ''The Rideau Trail Guidebook'', (Rideau Trail Association, Kingston, 7th ed., 2006) Crossing both public and private lands, the ...

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 Wate ...

Rideau Lakes, Ontario Rideau Lakes is a township (Canada), township located within the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Rideau Lakes lies in the northwest corner of Leeds and Grenville, and is geographically the largest municipality ...

Rideau Street Rideau Street () 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 district. Ride ...

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

Rideau View Rideau View (also spelled Rideauview) is a sub-neighbourhood of Carleton Heights in River Ward, in the west-end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located near the Rideau River. It is bordered by Meadowlands Drive to the south, Claymor Avenue to the wes ...

Buildings and structures

Rideau Centre The Rideau Centre () (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 King Bridge, and N ...

Rideau Hall Rideau Hall (officially Government House) is the official residence of the governor general of Canada, the representative of the monarch of Canada. Located in Ottawa, the Capital city, capital of the country, on a estate at 1 Sussex Drive, th ...

* Rideau High School * Rideau Valley

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 Cartier as a gentlemen's club, but since 1979 has been mixed-sex. For much of its history the club was pop ...

* Rideau Curling Club

People with the surname

Brandon Rideau Brandon Rideau (born October 18, 1982) is an American former professional football wide receiver. He played college football at Kansas and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Cleveland Browns. In his career, Rideau was also a member of ...

(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 (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 *

Rideau brothers Joseph "Joe Joe" Rideau (September 30, 1979 - October 28, 2001) and Christopher "Chris" Rideau (April 5, 1981- July 10, 2011), were well known criminals from New Orleans, Louisiana. Authorities said the brothers terrorized the streets of New Orle ...

, American criminals

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 ...

, a Canadian breed of domestic sheep *''

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

'', 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 the ...

, 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 novel. ''The Curtain'' was originally published as ''Le Rideau'', i ...

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