Montreal Road (French: ''Chemin de Montréal''), also known as Ottawa Road #34, is a major east-west

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road that links Lowertown to Vanier and the farther eastern neighbourhoods of Ottawa. Until downloading in 1998, it was part of the provincially managed Highway 17B. Since the early 20th century, Montreal Road has been the cultural core of Vanier. It is one of a string of variously named roads that form an uninterrupted route between Parliament Hill and the City of Montreal, originally part of Ontario Highway 17, later bypassed by the freeway now known as Ottawa Road 174. In French, it is known as ''Chemin de Montréal'' for most of its distance. The insertion of ''de'' in the 2010s marked a departure from the City's general bilingual street-naming policy to align with Francophone practice for streets that refer to place names. At its western end, Montreal Road begins at the Cummings Bridge, which spans the

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and is an extension of Rideau Street. It becomes Vanier's main street as it passes through the commercial heart of the community. East of

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, it becomes a four-lane arterial road that divides several neighbourhoods such as

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. At

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, Montreal Road becomes St. Joseph Boulevard, which runs through the older portions of Orléans Village until

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. It continues east of Trim Road under the name Old Montreal Road. This road, which was known as Queen Street prior to amalgamation in 2001, goes through the old

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Village and ends at Regional Road 174 just past Becketts Creek. Points of interest along this road are (from west to east): * Montfort Hospital (Ontario's largest Francophone hospital) * National Research Council labs * Greens Creek Conservation Area * Place d'Orléans Shopping Centre *

Orléans Town Centre Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and St. Laurent Boulevard St. Laurent Boulevard ( Ottawa Road #26) is an arterial road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Beginning at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police college complex at Sandridge Road in the Manor Park neighbourhood, St. Laurent Boulevard runs in a straight ...

to speed transit service during rush hours. Future plans by the city could include an LRT corridor on this stretch as far as Blair Road, where the City has plans for a new "main street" development of shops and apartment towers.

Neighbourhoods

Montreal Road goes through the following neighbourhoods: * Vanier * Cardinal Glen * Rothwell Heights *

St. Joseph Boulevard goes through the following neighbourhoods (all part of Orléans): * Convent Glen * Queenswood * Fallingbrook

Major intersections

On Montreal Road: *

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(Ottawa Road 19) *

(Ottawa Road 26) * Aviation Parkway * Blair Road (Ottawa Road 27) *

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(Ottawa Road 50) * Ottawa Road 174 On St. Joseph Boulevard: * Jeanne d'Arc Boulevard (Ottawa Road 55) *

Orléans Boulevard Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and Tenth Line Road The city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada maintains many regional roads, like most counties and regional municipalities in Southern and Eastern Ontario. The regional road system was created by the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton (RMOC) and ...

(Ottawa Road 36) *

(Ottawa Road 57)

References

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