Elmvale Acres is a neighbourhood in Alta Vista (Ottawa)

Alta Vista (Ottawa)

Alta Vista is a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Its boundaries can be broadly described as: Smyth Road in the north, St. Laurent Boulevard in the east, Walkley Road and Heron Road in the south, and Bank Street and Riverside Drive in the west...

. It was built in the late 1950s by the contractor and property developer, Robert Campeau

Robert Campeau

Robert Campeau is a Canadian financier and real estate developer.-Early years:His formal education ended in grade eight, at the age of 14. He talked himself into jobs at Inco as a general labourer, carpenter and machinist. In 1949 he entered the residential end of the construction business...

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It includes the Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre on St. Laurent, which functions as an east end OC Transpo

OC Transpo

OC Transpo is the urban transit service of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. An integrated hub-and-spoke system of services is available consisting of: regular buses travelling on fixed routes in mixed traffic, typical of most urban transit systems; a bus rapid transit system — a high...

transit terminus. This shopping centre was the scene of a family-related shooting in September 2006.