Locations

Ottawa, one area at a time.

Ottawa is not one market. It is eleven municipalities that were merged in 2001 across roughly 2,800 square kilometres, and the tax questions genuinely differ by where you are. The technology park raises stock option timing. The rural south raises farm income. A student quarter raises rental rules. Pick the area closest to you.

Every other neighbourhood

The rest of the city, and the page that covers each one. If your neighbourhood is here rather than above, it is because the area page it points to answers the same questions, not because the work is any different.

• BeaverbrookBill Teron's first planned Kanata community, laid out in the 1960s around a village centre and a network of walkways.
• KatimavikA Kanata subdivision that takes its name from the Inuktitut word for meeting place.
• Glen CairnBegun in the late 1960s along Hazeldean Road, and older than most of the Kanata housing that grew up around it.
• Morgan's GrantThe residential neighbourhood closest to the March Road technology employers.
• Kanata NorthThe city ward that contains the technology park itself, not just the houses near it.
• Marchwood LakesideA Kanata neighbourhood next to Beaverbrook that still carries the old March Township name.
• BriarbrookA 1990s pocket of north Kanata adjoining Morgan's Grant.
• ArcadiaOne of the newest builds in Kanata West, off Maple Grove Road.
• Kanata Town CentreThe commercial core around Kanata Centrum and the arena on Palladium Drive.
• South MarchThe surviving name of March Township, which became the City of Kanata in 1978.
• Kanata HighlandsLarger lots at the northern edge of Kanata near Richardson Side Road.
• Emerald MeadowsA late-1990s extension of the Bridlewood build toward Eagleson Road.
• TrailwestA 2010s subdivision sitting on the Kanata side of the Stittsville boundary.
• FairwindsA 2000s subdivision north of Hazeldean Road at the Stittsville end.
• Jackson TrailsA Stittsville subdivision built out west of Huntmar Drive.
• AmberwoodA Stittsville community laid out around the Amberwood golf course.
• HazeldeanA former Goulbourn hamlet whose name now belongs mostly to the road running east into Kanata.
• MunsterA hamlet in the former Goulbourn Township south of Richmond, often signed as Munster Hamlet.
• AshtonA mill village split down the middle by the boundary between Ottawa and Lanark County.
• Stanley CornersA crossroads settlement in the rural part of the former Goulbourn Township.
• DunrobinThe West Carleton village that lost dozens of homes to the September 2018 tornado.
• Constance BayA former cottage community on the Ottawa River sand plains, now lived in year round.
• Fitzroy HarbourA village where the Carp River meets the Ottawa, beside Fitzroy Provincial Park.
• GalettaAn old mill site on the Mississippi River in the west end of the former West Carleton Township.
• KinburnA rural settlement on Kinburn Side Road, north of the Carp Ridge.
• WoodlawnA small Ottawa River settlement between Constance Bay and Fitzroy Harbour.
• CorkeryA rural community on Corkery Road west of the village of Carp.
• City ViewA small postwar Nepean neighbourhood off Merivale Road near Baseline.
• Craig HenryA 1970s subdivision between Greenbank Road and the Merivale industrial strip.
• CentrepointeBuilt around Ben Franklin Place, the former Nepean city hall, and the Centrepointe Theatre.
• CrestviewA 1950s and 1960s subdivision west of Woodroffe Avenue near Algonquin College.
• ManordalePaired with Woodvale in the local community association, off Merivale Road.
• WoodvaleA small Nepean neighbourhood immediately next to Manordale.
• Merivale GardensAn older residential enclave hemmed in by the Merivale Road commercial corridor.
• Arlington WoodsThe Nepean neighbourhood hit by the second of the September 2018 tornadoes.
• Trend VillageJoined with Arlington Woods in a single community association off Greenbank Road.
• QualicumTreated as one community with Graham Park by the residents' association that covers both.
• Graham ParkA compact subdivision west of Baseline Road's older Nepean stretch, next door to Qualicum.
• Fisher HeightsA 1950s subdivision on the slope beside Fisher Avenue.
• Parkwood HillsOne of the densest apartment clusters in the old city of Nepean, built around Meadowlands Drive.
• TanglewoodA Nepean neighbourhood grouped with Hillsdale in one community association.
• Copeland ParkA 1950s subdivision sitting behind the Merivale Road shopping strip.
• CarlingtonWartime housing built on the slope below the Royal Ottawa Hospital on Carling Avenue.
• KnoxdaleGives half its name to the Knoxdale-Merivale ward and takes it from Knoxdale Road.
• BayshoreApartment towers and townhouses wrapped around the Bayshore Shopping Centre at Carling and Richmond.
• WhitehavenA postwar subdivision west of Pinecrest Road, north of Carling Avenue.
• WoodparkThe blocks between Richmond Road and Carling Avenue at Lincoln Fields.
• Queensway Terrace NorthBuilt in the 1950s on the north side of the highway it is named after.
• Queensway Terrace SouthThe counterpart on the far side of the Queensway, cut off from its twin by the highway itself.
• PineglenA small greenbelt-edge enclave off Merivale Road south of Hunt Club.
• Grenfell GlenLarger lots near Prince of Wales Drive, inside the greenbelt but outside the suburban grid.
• Country PlaceA 1970s planned enclave of curving streets west of Prince of Wales Drive.
• Lynwood VillageThe main residential subdivision of Bells Corners, laid out in the late 1950s.
• CedarhillEstate lots around the Cedarhill golf club on Cedarview Road.
• Crystal BeachA riverfront community near the Nepean Sailing Club, grouped with Lakeview Park.
• Lakeview ParkThe inland half of the Crystal Beach community, west of Moodie Drive.
• BritanniaA summer resort at the end of the streetcar line in the 1900s, and still the city's main swimming beach.
• Lincoln HeightsThe area around Lincoln Fields, where the Transitway is being rebuilt as light rail.
• CarlingwoodNamed for the shopping centre at Carling and Woodroffe, one of the first malls built in the city.
• McKellar ParkA 1920s subdivision west of Westboro, now heavily rebuilt as infill.
• Highland ParkAn interwar neighbourhood between Kirkwood Avenue and Churchill Avenue.
• WoodroffeAn older neighbourhood at the north end of Woodroffe Avenue near Richmond Road.
• Island ParkThe tree-lined driveway between the Queensway and the Champlain Bridge, lined with embassies.
• Champlain ParkA compact grid of streets between Island Park Drive and the Ottawa River parkway.
• MechanicsvilleA workers' village built for the Chaudière mill hands, wedged between Scott Street and the river.
• Civic HospitalThe streets around the old Civic campus on Carling, most of them built in the 1920s and 1930s.
• Wellington VillageThe residential grid behind the Wellington West shops, largely built before 1930.
• Tunney's PastureA federal office campus rather than a neighbourhood, and the reason so many households nearby are public servants.
• Golden TriangleThe wedge between the Rideau Canal, Elgin Street and the Queensway, almost entirely apartments and rowhouses.
• Centretown WestThe blocks running from Bronson Avenue west to the Trillium Line cut.
• Little ItalyThe Preston Street corridor, signed along its length as Corso Italia.
• ChinatownSomerset Street West, entered under the Chinatown Royal Arch.
• LeBreton FlatsExpropriated and cleared in 1962, and only rebuilt with housing and the war museum decades later.
• Dow's LakeThe blocks around the canal basin, the Arboretum and Commissioners Park.
• Glebe AnnexThe few blocks kept separate from the Glebe proper by the traffic on Bronson Avenue.
• LowertownThe oldest francophone quarter of the city, laid out below the locks in the 1820s.
• Lees AvenueAn apartment strip on the Rideau River that also holds the University of Ottawa's Lees campus.
• New EdinburghThomas MacKay's 1830s village beside Rideau Hall and the mills at the Rideau Falls.
• LindenleaOne of Canada's first garden suburbs, laid out for veterans after the First World War.
• Manor ParkA postwar development east of Rockcliffe, much of it built as rental housing in the late 1940s.
• Wateridge VillageThe new community rising on the lands of the former CFB Rockcliffe air base.
• Vanier NorthThe half above Montreal Road, taking in Richelieu Park and its sugar bush.
• Vanier SouthThe half below Montreal Road, the older Eastview street grid running toward the Queensway.
• OverbrookSqueezed between the Rideau River and St. Laurent Boulevard, north of the Queensway.
• Viscount Alexander ParkNamed for a postwar Governor General, on the Coventry Road side of the Vanier Parkway.
• CyrvilleA French-Canadian farming settlement of the 1830s, now ringed by an industrial park and an LRT station.
• Eastway GardensA pocket of small postwar houses beside the Ottawa Train Yards.
• Carson GroveA 1970s Gloucester subdivision south of Ogilvie Road, close to the Blair transit hub.
• PineviewA Gloucester neighbourhood beside the Pine View municipal golf course on Blair Road.
• Hawthorne MeadowsA 1960s Gloucester subdivision off Russell Road, named for the old Hawthorne settlement.
• Sheffield GlenA residential pocket almost surrounded by the Sheffield Road industrial area.
• Braemar ParkA small 1950s subdivision off Walkley Road in the former Gloucester Township.
• Albion-HeatheringtonA social-housing area at Albion and Heatherington roads, south of Walkley.
• Blossom ParkAn older stretch of houses along Bank Street south of Hunt Club, predating the subdivisions built around it.
• RamsayvilleA hamlet on Ramsayville Road in the rural half of the former Gloucester Township.
• Beacon Hill NorthThe section between Ogilvie Road and the Ottawa River, built out through the 1960s.
• Beacon Hill SouthThe section below Ogilvie Road, bounded by Blair Road and the Aviation Parkway.
• Rothwell HeightsAn enclave of large wooded lots on the ridge above Montreal Road.
• Elmvale AcresBuilt in the 1950s around the Elmvale Acres shopping centre, one of the east end's first plaza-centred suburbs.
• Guildwood EstatesWide 1950s bungalow lots on curving streets off Kilborn Avenue.
• Applewood AcresA compact postwar subdivision off Alta Vista Drive.
• Alta Vista RidgeOn the height of land that gives the wider district its name, above the Ottawa Hospital's General campus.
• Riverview ParkThe 1950s neighbourhood beside the hospital and research campus at Smyth and Riverside.
• Heron ParkA modest 1950s neighbourhood south of Heron Road toward Walkley.
• LedburyGrouped with Heron Gate and Ridgemont in a single community association south of Heron Road.
• RidgemontBuilt around Ridgemont High School on the slope east of Bank Street.
• HerongateA large 1960s rental complex south of Heron Road, partly demolished and redeveloped after 2016.
• Riverside ParkA 1960s mix of apartment slabs and bungalows facing the Rideau River near Mooney's Bay.
• Old Ottawa EastThe strip between the canal and the Rideau River that was an independent village before the city took it in.
• Rideau GardensA small enclave on the river side of Old Ottawa East, with houses backing onto the Rideau.
• Billings BridgeThe crossing named for the Billings family, whose 1828 estate house still stands above the river.
• Mooney's BayThe beach and park where the Rideau widens above Hog's Back Falls.
• South KeysThe shopping centre and O-Train station at Bank Street and Hunt Club Road.
• GreenboroA 1980s Gloucester subdivision built around its own transit station and library.
• Hunt Club ParkThe eastern section of Hunt Club, laid out in the 1980s near Conroy Road.
• Emerald WoodsAn apartment and townhouse cluster between the Airport Parkway and Bank Street.
• Sawmill CreekNamed for the creek that runs north from the airport lands to the Rideau River.
• LeitrimA former hamlet on Leitrim Road, now the northern edge of the Findlay Creek build-out.
• LongfieldsBarrhaven's first major westward expansion, with its own Transitway station on Longfields Drive.
• Half Moon BayThe south Barrhaven community still adding streets along the Greenbank Road extension.
• StonebridgeLaid out around the Stonebridge golf course south of Jockvale Road.
• Chapman MillsBuilt out in the 2000s either side of Strandherd Drive, with the Marketplace retail centre at its middle.
• StrandherdMore a corridor than a subdivision, the retail and transit spine running across Barrhaven.
• Heart's DesireOne of the oldest parts of Barrhaven, a 1960s pocket that predates the subdivisions surrounding it.
• Barrhaven EastThe eastern half of Barrhaven, given a city ward of its own in the 2022 boundary changes.
• Davidson HeightsA Barrhaven neighbourhood on the Cedarview Road side of the community.
• FallowfieldThe former farm village on Fallowfield Road, known now mostly for the VIA Rail station.
• AvalonThe largest of the 2000s Orleans builds, east of Tenth Line Road.
• FallingbrookAn Orleans subdivision built through the 1980s between Tenth Line Road and Trim Road.
• Chapel HillA south Orleans subdivision begun in the 1970s on the north side of Innes Road.
• Chapel Hill SouthThe later extension below Innes Road, with its own schools and park network.
• Convent GlenNamed for the convent land it was built on, just west of Place d'Orléans.
• Queenswood HeightsOne of the first Orleans subdivisions off Jeanne d'Arc Boulevard, built in the 1970s.
• Queenswood VillageA smaller pocket next to Queenswood Heights on the river side of the highway.
• ChateauneufOne of the older Orleans neighbourhoods between St. Joseph Boulevard and the Ottawa River.
• Bilberry CreekBuilt along the ravine of the creek it is named for, south of St. Joseph Boulevard.
• Hiawatha ParkA small riverside pocket at the north end of Orleans Boulevard.
• Cardinal CreekThe far eastern edge of the Orleans build, out past Trim Road.
• Notre-Dame-des-ChampsA rural francophone community south of Innes Road on the Cumberland side of the city.
• SarsfieldA village on Colonial Road in the former Cumberland Township.
• VarsA village near the eastern city limit, on the rail line that carries trains to Montreal.
• Carlsbad SpringsNamed for the sulphur springs that supported a spa hotel there before the First World War.
• BearbrookA hamlet on the creek of the same name in the former Cumberland Township.
• PipervilleA crossroads settlement near Carlsbad Springs in the city's rural east.
• VernonA village on the Castor River in the former Osgoode Township.
• KenmoreA small farming hamlet in the former Osgoode Township, close to the Dundas County line.
• MarionvilleA francophone village on the city's eastern boundary with Russell Township.
• EdwardsA hamlet on Boundary Road in the far south-east corner of the city.
• Manotick StationA separate hamlet on the old rail line, several kilometres from Manotick village and often confused with it.
• KarsA Rideau River village named after the Battle of Kars, upstream from Manotick.
• North GowerThe main village of the former Rideau Township, just east of Highway 416.