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Stonebridge, Ottawa
Stonebridge is a golf course community in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The community borders the Jock river to the north, Prince of Wales to the east, Barnsdale to the south, and Greenbank to the west. Main through-roads include Jockvale and Greenbank. The Stonebridge Golf Club, an 18-hole course, snakes through the community, and borders Jockvale road. The Stonebridge Community Association manages community events including summer and winter sports for kids. Stonebridge has several parks, many including splash pads and fields. A new city-run community centre, the Minto Recreation Complex, includes a Gymnasium, a weight and exercise room, two pools, two skating rinks, a walking track, and several multi-use rooms. There is also a CFL-sized artificial playing football field to the south-east of the building. Homes in the area were built by several builders, including Minto Minto may refer to: Places Antarctica *Mount Minto (Antarctica) Australia *Minto, New South Wales, a suburb of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golf Course Community
A golf course community is a type of residential housing development built around a golf course. History Temple Terrace, Florida is often described as the first planned golf-course community in the United States, dating from the 1920s.Morgan, Philip (29 January 2014)Troubled golf club seeks more help from Temple Terrace City Council ''Tampa Bay Times'' The community was intended only for the very wealthy who would reside there for an only a few months of the year during the winter. For example, the original homes were built without kitchens as it was planned that they would dine at the community clubhouse.Moorehad, Richard & Nick WynneGolf in Florida: 1886-1950 p. 38 (2008) As golf became a sport also played by the middle class of the United States by the 1950s and 1960s, golf course communities also were developed for those players. During a period of "boom growth" in United States golf courses in the 1960s, approximately 25% of courses built each year were developed as a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). Ottawa had a city population of 1,017,449 and a metropolitan population of 1,488,307, making it the fourth-largest city and fourth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Ottawa is the political centre of Canada and headquarters to the federal government. The city houses numerous foreign embassies, key buildings, organizations, and institutions of Canada's government, including the Parliament of Canada, the Supreme Court, the residence of Canada's viceroy, and Office of the Prime Minister. Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855, its original boundaries were expanded through numerous annexations and were ultimately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minto Group
The Minto Group is a Canadian real estate company, based in Ottawa, Ontario. It builds homes in Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, and Florida. It also manages multi-residential and commercial properties in Ontario and Alberta. It has built 85,000 new homes, and manages $2.9 billion in assets, including 13,000 multi-residential units and 2.7 million square feet of commercial space. The firm is one of Ottawa's largest residential landlords. Minto also has a publicly traded subsidiary, holding some of its multi-residential units, called Minto Apartment Real Estate Investment Trust. Minto is also partners with Dellray Group, another leading real estate developer. History Minto Group was founded in 1955 by Gilbert, Irving, Lorry and Louis Greenberg, as a home builder. It was originally called Mercury Homes, but renamed itself Minto Construction Company in 1957. Its first large development was Parkwood Hills in Nepean in partnership with Westmore Investments. As part of that developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattamy Homes
Mattamy Homes is a Canadian home builder, founded in Toronto by Peter Gilgan in 1978. One of the largest privately owned builders in North America, Mattamy Homes is Canada's largest residential home builder and top-25 builder in the United States. Peter E. Gilgan C.B.H.F Canadian Business Hall of Fame: Junior Achievement. Retrieved November 19, 2014 The company's name is a portmanteau of the names of Gilgan's two oldest children, Matt and Amy. Markets Most of Mattamy Homes' projects have been in the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa, but has also built homes in[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
