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Blackburn Hamlet Blackburn Hamlet is a suburban community in Innes Ward, in the east end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Before the 2001 amalgamation of the city of Ottawa, it was in the city of Gloucester. It is surrounded by rural areas and contains several older ...

Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and St. Laurent Boulevard to Cyrville Road is a four-lane principal

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that primarily runs through industrial and light commercial areas with partial access control, although with an speed limit. Some residential frontage and considerable commercial frontage exists in the fairly congested section east of Highway 417, where Innes widens to six lanes up to

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and then becomes a divided four-lane road. The

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is located in this section. Innes splits in Blackburn Hamlet; The original alignment runs through the community as an undivided road with a lower speed limit of . The long Blackburn Hamlet Bypass (Ottawa Road 128) was built in the late 1980s; it is a divided

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around Blackburn Hamlet maintaining , greatly speeding up the commute to Orléans. Once in Orléans, Innes once again becomes a commercial/mixed frontage principal arterial road. This segment was widened from two to four lanes in the mid 2000s due to the

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of south Orléans. The most congested section is at

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, which has become the second commercial hub of Orléans (after

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). The speed limit through Orléans is although during the construction project it was reduced mostly to . Once clear of Orléans (east of Frank Kenny Road), Innes becomes a rural road.

History

Innes Road, originally called the 3rd Line, was completed as a link between the communities of Blackburn and Cyrville in 1878. When the western portion of the road was widened and realigned in the 1980s, much of it ran north of, and parallel to, the original roadway. Part of the original road that still survives as Old Innes Road and Windmill Lane, and runs to Ritchie’s Feed and Seed Store and past other businesses.

Name origin

In 1960, the road was named after John Innes, who was Reeve of the Township of Gloucester from 1931 to 1939. Innes owned a dairy and mixed farm close to the present day intersection of Innes and Bantree Street. He was son to Alexander and Margaret Innes, originally of Aberdeen, Scotland. A monument to John Innes was erected at the corner of Russell Road and

Walkley Road Walkley Road ( Ottawa Road #74) is a major road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs from Riverside Drive to Ramseyville Road (formerly Baseline Road). It is mostly a four-lane divided road which runs through both residential and industrial ar ...

in 1941, but was not maintained and it was removed when Gloucester was amalgamated into Ottawa. In Fall 2013, a new cairn with a commemorative plaque was placed in front of Gloucester Hall on Bank Street.

Major intersections

* St. Laurent Boulevard (where it becomes Industrial Avenue) * Highway 417 *

Cyrville Road Cyrville (also referred to as Cummings) is a neighbourhood in Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward in the east-end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The area is located within the former City of Gloucester, and is roughly bounded on the north, west and south by ...

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Blair Road Blair Road (Ottawa Road #27) is a road in the eastern part of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It begins just south of the Rockcliffe Parkway, but does not connect to the parkway, except for a small bike-path connection to the Ottawa River Pathway - one o ...

* Bearbrook Road *

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Mer Bleue Road Mer or MER may refer to: Business * Management expense ratio * Market exchange rate * Merrill Lynch's former NYSE stock symbol People * Francis Mer (born 1939), a French businessman, industrialist and politician, former Minister of the Economy ...

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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 ...

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Trim Road Trim Road ( Ottawa Road #57) is an arterial road in the eastern end of Orléans, Ontario, a suburb of Ottawa. It serves as the only road access to Petrie Island and its public beach in the Ottawa River. From Petrie Island, Trim runs south thro ...

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Frank Kenny Road Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Curr ...

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Communities

* Cyrville * Pineview (http://www.pineviewottawa.com/) *

Blackburn Hamlet Blackburn Hamlet is a suburban community in Innes Ward, in the east end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Before the 2001 amalgamation of the city of Ottawa, it was in the city of Gloucester. It is surrounded by rural areas and contains several older ...

* Chapel Hill (North and South) * Mer Bleue (future development) * Fallingbrook *

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* Notting Gate

References

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