Borden Farm is a neighbourhood in Knoxdale-Merivale Ward in

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. It is located in the former city of Nepean, which was amalgamated into Ottawa in 2001. It was built on the site of the former Borden Dairy Farm. The land was bought by the

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(CMHC) in 1959. The Borden farm community was built in 1967–1976 as a joint development of the CMHC and the

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and features single-family homes with parks and bikeways placed behind the houses, instead of on the streets. There was more development in the 1980s and early 1990s. The rough boundaries of the neighbourhood are

Merivale Road Merivale Road is an arterial road in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It starts at Island Park Drive just north of Highway 417 and continues south until it ends at Prince of Wales Drive in Rideau Glen. South of Clyde Avenue, Merivale ...

to the west, Bowhill Avenue to the north,

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to the south and Chesteron Drive to the east. According to the

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, the population for this area was 2,668.Population calculated by combining Dissemination Areas 35060517, 35060518, 35060516, 35060514 and Dissemination Blocks 35060515009, 35060515010, 35060515008, 35060515001, 35060515002, 35060519004 and 35060519003 One of the housing developments found alongside the Borden Farm neighbourhood is Fisher Glen, built in the early 1980s. Other housing developments are Stewart Farm,

Parkwood Hills Parkwood Hills is a neighbourhood in Knoxdale-Merivale Ward in the west end of Ottawa, Canada. Prior to amalgamation in 2001, it was located in the City of Nepean. It is notable for the thriller ''Parkwood Hills'' (2002) which was filmed on loc ...

and Carleton Heights. It is home to four parks, shopping strips on Merivale, a small shopping strip on Viewmount Drive, and four schools Omer-Deslauriers High School (formerly J.S. Woodsworth High School), Century Public School, Laurier-Carrière Catholic Elementary School and Merivale High School. J. S. Woodsworth High School operated from 1973 until its closure in 2005. Merivale Mall is a short walking distance from the neighbourhood. The Borden Farm Child Care Centre is located on Chesterton Drive.

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