Bay Ward or Ward 7 (French: ''Quartier Baie'') is a municipal ward in
Ottawa, Ontario
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,
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represented on
Ottawa City Council. It covers much of the western portion of the old city of Ottawa as well as some portions of what was once
Nepean
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. The ward runs from Sherbourne and Maitland in the east to March Road in the west. The southern border is the
Queensway while the northern border is the
Ottawa River. The ward makes up the northern portion of the federal and provincial riding of
Ottawa West-Nepean
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.
The ward contains a number of neighbourhoods, with quite diverse populations. Some of the neighbourhoods in the ward are
Bayshore,
Woodroffe North
Woodroffe North (also known as just Woodroffe) is a neighbourhood in Bay Ward in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded on the south by Richmond Road on the west by the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway, on the north by the Ottawa Ri ...
,
Michele Heights
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,
Glabar Park
Glabar Park is a neighbourhood in Bay Ward, in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded on the west by Woodroffe Avenue north by Carling Avenue, south by The Queensway and on the east by Maitland Avenue. The population at the 2011 ...
,
Lincoln Heights,
Britannia
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, and
Crystal Beach. The westernmost part of the ward also contains a large section of the
Greenbelt
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. Some of these neighbourhoods, especially those by the Ottawa River are quite wealthy. However, there are also many much poorer parts of the ward with many residents living in high-density apartments. The ward also contains some of Ottawa's highest concentrations of recent immigrants.
From the creation of the new city of Ottawa in 2001 to 2010 the ward was represented by former MPP
Alex Cullen
Alexander Shaun Cullen is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a former Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and a former member of Ottawa City Council, representing the Bay Ward in Ottawa's west end ...
, who was considered to be one of the most left-wing members of city council. However, Bay Ward has voted Liberal in recent provincial elections and Conservative federally. In the 2003 and 2006 elections, Cullen faced strong challenges from conservative opponents. In the
2003 election he faced John Blatherwick, while in
2006 he fended off a challenge from high-profile former mayoral candidate Terry Kilrea. In 2010, Cullen was defeated by a Liberal, Mark Taylor.
Bay Ward was the home of former mayor
Bob Chiarelli
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, and he won the area by large margins in both the 2000 and 2003 mayoral elections. In the 2006 mayoral election, however, the area supported
Larry O'Brien
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and Chiarelli finished third, also behind
Alex Munter. In the 2010 mayoral election, Bay Ward swung back to the centre, going for
Jim Watson.
The ward is a descendant of Britannia-Richmond Ward, which included the area now in Bay Ward before Ottawa amalgamated in 2001. That ward was created in 1994 when
Britannia Ward merged with
Richmond Ward
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. The ward existed on Regional Council as Bay Ward from 1994 until the region dissolved. This area was part of
Carleton Ward
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until 1972 when it became Britannia Ward. Richmond Ward was carved out of it in 1980 and existed until merging back with the original ward in 1994.
Following the 2020 Ottawa Ward boundary review, the ward will gain the neighbourhoods of
McKellar Heights
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and
McKellar Park.
City councillors
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Marion Dewar
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(1973-1974), Britannia
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Sandy Boyce
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(1975-1976), Britannia
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Marlene Catterall
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(1977-1985), Britannia
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Ruth Wildgen (1986-1988), Britannia
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Jim Jones
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(1989-1991), Britannia
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Jill Brown (1992-1994), Britannia
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Ron Kolbus (1995-2000), Britannia-Richmond
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Alex Cullen
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(2001-2010), Bay
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Mark Taylor (2010–2018), Bay
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Theresa Kavanagh
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(2018–present), Bay
Election results
1972
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1974
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 ...
1978
1980
1982
1985
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Events January
* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
1988
File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ...
1991
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...
1994
1997
2000
File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...
2003
2006
2010
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
2018
File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the Unit ...
2022
File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeypo ...
References
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External links
Map of Bay Ward
Ottawa wards