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

Towns and places

* Rideau Ferry, Ontario *

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 View

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 * 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 (born c. 1937), American French Creole winemaker * Laquincy Rideau (born 1996), American basketball player * Stéphane Rideau (born 1976), French actor * Wilbert Rideau (born 1942), American convicted killer * Rideau brothers, American criminals

Other uses

* Rideau (company), 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''