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Carlsbad Springs is a rural community on
Bear Brook in
Cumberland Ward
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in
Ottawa
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,
Ontario
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, Canada; Prior to amalgamation in 2001, the community was on the border between
Gloucester
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and
Cumberland
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. According to the
Canada 2011 Census, the population of the surrounding area is 916 (area bounded on the north by Renaud Road and the CP Railway, 10th Line, on the east by Smith Road, Milton Road, Russell Road and Sand Road, on the south by Highway 417 and on the west by Anderson Road).
History
Mineral spa-hotel era: 1870–1930
The village, which was near Canada's capital city of Ottawa, was first known as Boyd's Mills, after the proprietor of the local mill on the
Bear Brook, the first to process white pine lumber. It was later a grain mill when the land was cleared in the early 19th century and wheat farming began. It later became as Eastman's Springs, after Danny Eastman, who built the first inn to lodge travelers. In 1870, businessmen including future
Ottawa
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Mayor
C.W. Bangs
Chauncey Ward Bangs (January 19, 1814 – March 21, 1892) was mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1878.
He was born in Standstead in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada in 1814, the son of Benjamin Bangs. His family came to Canada from the Un ...
formed the Dominion Springs Company to build a spa-hotel, which would offer as recreational and medical benefits the highly-mineralized water that was found in most local wells.
In 1882, a railway through the area brought travelers from farther distant. The track is now the main railway line between Ottawa and Montreal but was a single track at Carlsbad Springs, which lost its local railway station in the 1970s.
In the early 1900s, the hotel became a successful resort, attracting the upper classes of nearby Ottawa. As well as mineral waters and sulphur baths, they enjoyed guest lecturers, walking paths, horseback riding facilities, archery,
billiards
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There are three major subdivisions of ...
, and
lawn game
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s, and the mineral water was bottled and sold throughout North America. As a marketing device, the village was in 1906 renamed Carlsbad Springs after the most fashionable aristocratic resort in central Europe (now
Karlovy Vary
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,
Czech Republic
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,<<) where King
Edward VII
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The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria an ...
regularly took holidays. The resort spa did not survive the
Depression of the 1930s. The all-wood hotel, the largest in the county for many years, became apartments in 1945 and was demolished in the 1980s.
1930s–1970s
Family farms and the big hotel helped the community grow in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but Carlsbad Springs' boom as a resort ended in the
Great Depression
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of the 1930s, and by World War II, the resort and spa business dwindled. Most of the surrounding land was small dairy or chicken farms (up to 200 acres).
Unsuccessful official planning altered the local economy in the 1960s when the Ontario government proposed rebuilding Carlsbad Springs as a commuter city outside Ottawa's
Green Belt
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(200 km
2.). Keen to co-operate, the
National Capital Commission
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started acquiring farmland nearby, to provide the satellite city with its own Green Belt. Only then did it come to light that the local
Leda clay
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soil cannot support tall buildings. Plans for the satellite city were abandoned, but the NCC retained thousands of acres of farmland, with no plans for whether or how it might be used. Some of the land was rented to farmers, but these diminished as the agricultural economy shrank in the 1980s.
1980s–present
As Carlsbad Springs was conveniently accessible from the main highway that runs through Ottawa (highway 417), it was attractive to commuters with jobs in the city. By the 1980s, gradual development took place in Carlsbad Springs, with modest homes on large, treed lots. Nonetheless, a semi-rural feel was maintained, due to the absence of subdivisions, and to the continued existence of a range of agricultural activities, ranging from berry-picking farms, horse-related businesses (e.g., equestrian boarding facilities), and hobby farms.
Franco-Ontarian culture has a dominant influence on the area, which can be seen in the French-language signs and in the active presence of spoken French in homes and community activities. In the wintertime, snowmobiling is both a well-loved Carlsbad Springs activity and a practical way of traveling throughout the area, as attested by the snowmobile trails that run alongside the areas' major roads. The carnival is a popular event held every Winter at the end of January at Harkness Park and the Carlsbad Springs Community Centre (6020 Piperville Road).
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In the mid-1990s, one of the remaining spring houses was restored, so that the community would be able to remember Carlsbad Springs' past as a bustling resort and spa area. As well, Carlsbad Springs continued to attract other development, including a large golf course that was built close to highway 417. When Carlsbad Springs was amalgamated into the City of Ottawa, there was a mixed response from the community. While some residents were pleased that city services such as bus transportation would be available, other residents were concerned that the City of Ottawa's urban bylaws and regulations would stifle the area's semi-rural lifestyle.
A new community centre for Carlsbad Springs opened in 2011 at a cost of $3.2 million. The architect for the centre is the same one as the Shenkman Art Centre in Orléans. The Community Centre has a gymnasium, a multi-purpose room, a meeting room, a small office and a lobby area. Harkness Park, with its baseball field, a tennis court, a kids playground area, the new community centre and the surrounding facility will become the sports and leisure hub for the Carlsbad Springs community and rural east Ottawa.
The community is served by a low-power 15 watts
tourist
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and
community
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radio station
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,
CJRO-FM
CJRO-FM is a radio station which broadcasts a community radio format on the frequency 107.7 FM (MHz) in Carlsbad Springs, Ontario, Canada.
History
The station originally began as a tourist information radio station in 2017.
Owned by CJRO Radi ...
, which operates at 107.7
MHz
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(
FM) and is owned by the Carlsbad Springs Community Association. The name of the radio station i
Carlsbad Info Radioand broadcast from th
Carlsbad Springs Community Centre
In January 2018, the
Hells Angels
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Nomads resumed operations in their compound on Piperville Road. It is the sole clubhouse for about 270 Hells Angels members. The Ontario Provincial Police did not say why the bikers returned, but said they are committed to continue to monitor the outlaw motorcycle gang. Radio-Canada reported that the Nomads had resurged in Carlsbad Springs since "violent in-fighting in the summer of 2016 forced them to lie low." Radio-Canada, citing anonymous police sources, reported that the "Ottawa-based Nomads chapter recently obtained a new charter from the Hells Angels, but will need to be careful not to encroach on territory ruled by Quebec Hells Angels."
In 2018, the construction of a warehouse for
Amazon
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began in Carlsbad Springs. It opened in 2019, creating over 600 full-time jobs between highway 417 and the centre of the village. Additionally, despite years of protesting from the community, development began on a dumping site for industrial waste in Carlsbad Springs. The community is set to receive six million dollars from the developer, Taggart Miller, over a thirty-year period in return for landfill and processing rights of hazardous waste material with an estimated annual capacity of 450000 tonnes.
Notable People
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C.W. Bangs
Chauncey Ward Bangs (January 19, 1814 – March 21, 1892) was mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1878.
He was born in Standstead in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada in 1814, the son of Benjamin Bangs. His family came to Canada from the Un ...
(1814–1892), mayor of Ottawa in 1878
*
Henry Newell Bate
Sir Henry Newell Bate (April 9, 1828 – April 7, 1917) was a wealthy Canadian industrialist and the first Chairman of the Ottawa Improvement Commission, founded in 1899 (now the National Capital Commission). Bate was knighted in 1910 by Kin ...
(1828-1917), industrialist
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Thomas Birkett
Thomas Birkett (February 1, 1844 – December 2, 1920) was mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1891 and a member of the House of Commons of Canada representing Ottawa City from 1900 to 1904.
Birkett was born in Bytown (as Ottawa was known t ...
(1844-1920), mayor of Ottawa in 1891; MP for
Ottawa City from 1900 to 1904
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Raymond Desjardins
Raymond L. Desjardins is a senior research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in the Agrienvironment Division of the Ottawa Research and Development Centre. His areas of expertise include agricultural meteorology, micrometeorolog ...
, senior research scientist at
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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Stefanie McKeough (1991–), hockey player
It is rumoured that Prime Minister
John A. Macdonald
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stayed at the Dominion House hotel in Carlsbad Springs.
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See also
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List of Ottawa neighbourhoods
This is a list of neighbourhoods and outlying communities within the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In 2001, the old city of Ottawa was amalgamated with the suburbs of Nepean, Kanata, Gloucester, Rockcliffe Park, Vanier and Cumberland, and the r ...
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Piperville
Piperville is a small rural community in Cumberland Ward in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, about 4 kilometres southwest of Carlsbad Springs and 16 kilometres southeast of Downtown Ottawa.
History
Piperville was originally marshland, with what is n ...
References
External links
Carlsbad Springs Community Association
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Neighbourhoods in Ottawa