Britannia Heights

Britannia Heights
Neighbourhood
Britannia Heights is located in Ottawa
Britannia Heights
Britannia Heights
Location in Ottawa
Coordinates: 45°21′40″N 75°47′30″W / 45.361102°N 75.79168°W / 45.361102; -75.79168
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
CityOttawa
Government
 • MayorJim Watson
Area
 • Total1.135 km2 (0.438 sq mi)
 Canada 2006 Census
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)

Britannia Heights[2] is a neighbourhood in Bay Ward in west end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The neighbourhood is a sub-neighbourhood of Britannia area of the city, but is within the Queensway Terrace North Community Association boundaries.[3] The neighbourhood is away from the Ottawa River on a steep hill. It is bounded to the North by Carling Avenue, east by OC Transpo Transitway, south by Henley Street, and west by Bayshore Drive. The population of the neighbourhood is approximately 1750.

The first land entrepreneur in the community was William Mosgrove whose registered plan in 1908 paved the way for 47 average-sized lots on Pinecrest Road and a parallel street named St. Louis (now Pinewood Crescent.)

Most of the homes were built between the 1930s to the 1960s. After 1970, many townhouses and condominiums were built until the 1980s.

The main streets of the neighbourhood are Richmond, Carling, Alpine, Connaught and Pinecrest. Britannia Heights United Church is on Pinecrest Drive.

The community is home to Frank Ryan Park and the Old Forge.

  1. ^ Pinecrest Creek/Westboro Stormwater Management Retrofit Study, May 2011
  2. ^ "Place names - Britannia Heights".
  3. ^ "About – QTN Community Association". Archived from the original on 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2014-09-04.