Uplands, also known as Elizabeth Park or Airport-Uplands is a neighbourhood in
Gloucester-Southgate Ward in the south end of
Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada. It is located in the federal and provincial districts of
Ottawa South, in the former city of
Gloucester. It is bordered by the
Hunt Club Road
Hunt Club Road, also known as Ottawa Road 32, is a major east–west route in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It originally ran from a dead end east of Bank Street to the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club; later, there were many extensions due to the 1970s h ...
to the north, Uplands Drive to the east, and the
Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to the south and west. The neighbourhood is adjacent to the military community living at
CFB Uplands, which was a large air force base in the 1960s and which still contains residential housing for military members.
The neighbourhood was first built around 1940. The neighbourhood was expanded eastward in the early 1960s. A newer neighbourhood named Wisteria Park was built around 2006 north of Uplands off of Hunt Club. Wisteria Park maintains its own community association. The total population of Uplands, including Wisteria Park was 1,581 (
Canada 2016 Census).
[Population calculated by combining dissemination areas 35060565, 35060564, 35060563, 35060562 and dissemination block 35060823021.]
References
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Uplands
Upland or Uplands may refer to:
Geography
*Hill, an area of higher land, generally
*Highland, an area of higher land divided into low and high points
*Upland and lowland, conditional descriptions of a plain based on elevation above sea level
*I ...