Settlement Type: | Neighbourhood |
Official Name: | Hawthorne Meadows |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Ottawa |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
Subdivision Type2: | City |
Subdivision Name2: | Ottawa |
Leader Title: | MPs |
Leader Title1: | MPPs |
Leader Title2: | Councillors |
Leader Name: | David McGuinty |
Leader Name1: | John Fraser |
Leader Name2: | Marty Carr |
Area Total Km2: | 0.606 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Note: | Canada 2016 Census |
Population Total: | 3577[1] |
Population Density Km2: | 5903 |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Coordinates: | 45.3922°N -75.5992°W |
Elevation M: | 75 |
Elevation Ft: | 250 |
Postal Code: | K1G |
Hawthorne Meadows is a neighbourhood in Alta Vista Ward in southeast Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is triangular in shape; it is bounded on the west by St. Laurent Boulevard, on the northeast by Russell Road and on the south by Walkley Road.[2] According to the Canada 2016 Census, the population of this area was 3,577.[1]
The neighbourhood exists at the site of the Hawthorne Post office and Orange Hall which was located at the corner of present day Walkley and Russell Roads.[3] The neighbourhood was mostly built in the 1960s[4] [5] by Minto Construction.[6] A community association was formed in 1961.[7]
The neighbourhood corresponds to Census Tract 5050010.00 (which also consists of the St. Laurent Square apartments, which are not in the neighbourhood). According to the 2016 Census, 47% of the population were Anglophones and 20% were Francophones. Other major languages include Arabic (8%), Somali (4%), Tagalog (3%), Spanish (2%), Creoles (2%), Italian (1%), Swahili (1%) and Urdu (1%).[8]
According to the Canada 2016 Census, 45% of the Census Tract was White, 22% was Black, 8% Arab, 5% Filipino, 5% South Asian, 2% Latin American, 2% West Asian, 2% Indigenous and 1% Southeast Asian.[9]