Elmvale Acres is a neighbourhood in south
Ottawa, Ontario
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 ...
, Canada, located in
Alta Vista Ward
Alta Vista Ward (Ward 18) is a city ward in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada represented on Ottawa City Council. Alta Vista Ward was created prior to the 1966 election when Gloucester Ward was split in half due to population growth in the Alta ...
. It was built in the late 1950s by the contractor and property developer,
Robert Campeau
Robert Joseph Antoine Campeau (August 3, 1923 June 12, 2017) was a Canadian financier and real estate developer. Starting from a single house constructed in 1940 in the Alta Vista neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Campeau built a large land dev ...
, with construction beginning in 1955. It is bounded on the north by
Smyth Road
Smyth Road () ( Ottawa Road #72),http://www.gloucesterhistory.com/Historic%20Gloucester%20Volume%2016%20No%204.pdf is a main road in eastern Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs from Riverside Drive to St. Laurent Boulevard. This residential area w ...
, on the east by Othello Avenue, on the south by Pleasant Park Road and on the west by the Hydro Corridor.
According to the 2016 Census, the population for this area was 2,627.
The neighbourhood is represented by the Elmvale Acres Community Association, which was known as the Elmvale Acres Property Owners Association prior to 1959, and was known as the Elmvale-Urbandale Community Association when it covered neighbouring
Urbandale in the 1960s and 1970s.
East of the neighbourhood is the
Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre
Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre is a strip mall located in the Elmvale Acres neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It opened as an enclosed mall in 1961 and was one of the earliest fully enclosed shopping malls in the city.
The mall is bounded ...
on St. Laurent, which functions as an east end
OC Transpo
OC Transpo, officially the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Transit Commission, is the public transit agency for the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It operates an integrated hub-and-spoke system including light metro, bus rapid transit, conventional ...
transit terminus. This shopping centre was the scene of a family-related shooting in September 2006.
Demographics
Most of the neighbourhood corresponds to Census Trac
5050009.00 According to the 2016 Census, the neighbourhood is 66% Anglophone and 18% Francophone. Other major languages include Arabic (4%), Tagalog (1%) and Portuguese (1%).
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 ...
References
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Neighbourhoods in Ottawa