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Institut canadien-français d'Ottawa

1921 USPC
123 Rideau Street  
Ottawa, ON, Canada Delivered: Windsor Office, International Playing Card Co.
 

The chip was for the Institut canadien-français d'Ottawa / French Canadian Institute of Ottawa.  It's a social club for French Canadians in Ottawa founded in 1852.  http://www.institutcanadienfrancais.org/.  When the chips were ordered in 1921 they were located at 123 Rideau in Ottawa (they moved to that location in 1920; there until 1956).

Below is a pic from the 1930's--they shared the building with Banque de Nouvelle-Écosse / Bank of Nova Scotia or Scotiabank, which still has a bank on the property, but in a new building: