Donnelly Drive ( Ottawa Road #2) is a rural road in

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 ...

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, Canada. The road runs along the western bank of the Rideau River from

Burritts Rapids Burritts Rapids is a small village located on the Rideau River in eastern Ontario. The hamlet was named after Stephen Burritt, whose family was the first to settle in this area. At one time, the hamlet prospered due to its location on the Rideau ...

to Reevecraig Road South. Between these two points, Donnelly Drive passes through Becketts Landing and passes by Rideau River Provincial Park. The eastern portion of Donnelly Drive was originally part of

Ontario Highway 16 King's Highway 16, commonly referred to as Highway 16 and historically as the Prescott Highway, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway once travelled from near Prescott to Ottawa, traversing the d ...

. It runs along the

Rideau Canal The Rideau Canal, also known unofficially as the Rideau Waterway, connects Canada's capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, to Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River at Kingston. It is 202 kilometres long. The name ''Rideau'', French for "curtain", ...

waterway, which was a major trade route in the early 1800s. It also runs close to the border of the city of Ottawa and the

United Counties of Leeds And Grenville The United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, commonly known as Leeds and Grenville, is a county in Ontario, Canada, in the Eastern Ontario subregion of Southern Ontario. It fronts on the Saint Lawrence River and the international boundary between ...

, which is the Rideau River. Donnelly Drive turns into Heritage Road once it reaches Burritts Rapids.

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