Official Name: | Britannia Heights |
Coordinates: | 45.3611°N -75.7917°W |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Ottawa |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ottawa |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
Subdivision Type2: | City |
Subdivision Name2: | Ottawa |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Title1: | MPs |
Leader Title2: | MPPs |
Leader Title3: | Councillors |
Leader Name: | Jim Watson |
Area Total Km2: | 1.135 |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Settlement Type: | Neighbourhood |
Population As Of: | 2006 |
Population Note: | Canada 2006 Census |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
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.
Grant Alternative School (formerly Grant Public School) is now a heritage site of Ottawa. The school was built in 1922 and closed in 1987. The school re-opened as an alternative school in 1991 and closed in 2007. As of 2013, the school will be renovated into a Francophone community center for the growth population of French people and a nursing home as well. It will also be part of a campus for La Cite Collegiate.