Wellington Village (formerly Island Park) is a neighbourhood in

Kitchissippi Ward Kitchissippi Ward (Ward 15) is a city ward in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It gets its name from the Algonquin name for the Ottawa River, meaning ''Great River''. The ward is slightly west of downtown, and covers the neighbourhoods of Ch ...

in the west end of

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. It is bounded on the north by Scott Street, on the west by

Island Park Drive Island Park Drive is a scenic parkway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Route description Many luxury homes and several embassies line the street. The north end connects to the Kichi Zibi Mikan and the Champlain Bridge, which crosses the Ottawa Rive ...

, on the south by

The Queensway The Queensway (or Queensway) is a major street in the municipalities of Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is a western continuation of Queen Street, after it crosses Roncesvalles Avenue and King Street in Toronto. The Queensway is ...

and on the east by Holland Avenue. The neighbourhood is covered by the Wellington Village Community Association, with the exception of Island Park Drive, which is covered by the Island Park Community Association. The neighbourhood was originally named Elmdale for the number of

elm Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus ''Ulmus'' in the family Ulmaceae. They are distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the temperate and tropical- montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ...

trees in the area, and was founded in 1922. The homes were built between the 1920s and 1940s. The neighbourhood is home to two public schools (

Fisher Park Fisher is an archaic term for a fisherman, revived as gender-neutral. Fisher, Fishers or The Fisher may also refer to: Places Australia *Division of Fisher, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland *Elect ...

and Elmdale), one Catholic School (St. George) and one park (

). The neighbourhood is home to the western half of

Wellington Street West Wellington Street West (Ottawa Road #36) is a 2.3 km road and shopping area west of downtown Ottawa, Ontario. This road was once connected to - and is often confused with - the prominent Wellington Street in downtown Ottawa. But the two ...

BIA, which extends into neighbouring

Hintonburg Hintonburg is a neighbourhood in Kitchissippi Ward in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located west of the Downtown core. It is a historically working-class, predominantly residential neighbourhood, with a commercial strip located along Wellington Stree ...

. The area is served on Ottawa's Transitway by

Tunney's Pasture Station Tunney's Pasture station is the western O-Train light rail terminal train station and a major bus transitway station in Ottawa, Ontario. Location It is located at the Tunney's Pasture government office complex, on Scott Street at Holland Avenue. ...

, which runs along the neighbourhood's northern border, parallel to Scott Street.

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