Riverview (Ottawa) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Riverview also known as Riverview Park is a neighbourhood in Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It is southeast of the downtown adjacent to the Rideau River

Rideau River

thumb|Rapids on the Rideau River opposite [[Carleton University]].The Rideau River is a Southern Ontario river which flows north from Upper Rideau Lake and empties into the Ottawa River at Rideau Falls in Ottawa, Ontario. Its length is 146 km...

, its location on which is its namesake. The approximate population of Riverview is 12,000.

Definition

At its greatest extent Riverview is bounded roughly on the west by the Rideau River

Rideau River

, on the north by Industrial Avenue, on the east by St. Laurent Boulevard, and on the south by Smyth Road

Smyth Road

Smyth Road is a main road in eastern Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs from Riverside Drive to St. Laurent Boulevard. This residential area was developed in the 1950s...

. The Riverview Park Community Association has the Queensway

Queensway (Ottawa)

The Queensway is a major controlled-access freeway running through Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from Kanata in the west to Orleans in the east. It is the primary east-west transportation artery in the Ottawa-Gatineau area....

as the north boundary, and the Canadian National Railway

Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company is a Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. CN's slogan is "North America's Railroad"....

line as the western boundary. However, this would include the neighbourhood of Eastway Gardens which is much separated from the rest of the neighbourhood. They leave out the area on the west side of railway line, perhaps because it is in a different city ward. Riverview is located adjacent to Old Ottawa East

Old Ottawa East

Old Ottawa East or just Ottawa East is a neighbourhood of Ottawa, Canada. It is located south of Nicholas Street and between the Rideau Canal and the Rideau River. The southern border is generally defined by Main Street and Riverdale Avenue. To the south is the neighbourhood of Old Ottawa South...

on the west (across the Rideau River), on the north by Eastway Gardens, on the south by Alta Vista

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...

and on the east by Sheffield Glen

Sheffield Glen

Sheffield Glen is a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Canada. It is located in the southeast part of the old city of Ottawa. It is bounded on the west by Russell Road, on the south by Walkley Road and on the north and east by Lancaster Road. The neighbourhood is more commonly referred to as Southvale by...

History

The area now known as Riverview was mostly farmland belonging to the Township of Gloucester

Gloucester Township, Ontario

Gloucester Township is a historical township in Eastern Ontario, Canada.Originally known as Township B, it was established in 1792. In 1800, it was part of Russell County, but became part of Carleton County in 1838 and was incorporated as a township in 1850. The first settler in the township was...

until it was annexed by the city of Ottawa in 1950. During this time, the only settlement was on the northern edge of what is today Riverview, and was the village of Hurdman's Bridge. There were also some buildings along River Road (today's Riverside Drive) and the CN railway along the Rideau River. In the 1950s the neighbourhood was primarily built-up to serve the post-war baby boom

Baby boom

A baby boom is any period marked by a greatly increased birth rate. This demographic phenomenon is usually ascribed within certain geographical bounds and when the number of annual births exceeds 2 per 100 women...

era. Hurdman's Bridge would be eventually demolished to make way for a parkland, rail land, and the new Queensway

Queensway (Ottawa)

freeway. Over the next few decades, housing for lower class and lower-middle class people were also built in the mostly middle-class neighbourhood. This included a large number of apartment buildings lining Riverside Drive

Riverside Drive (Ottawa)

Riverside Drive is a major road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that follows along the eastern bank of the Rideau River. From its northern terminus at the Transitway/Via Rail underpass just south of the Queensway, the road proceeds south to Limebank Road where it continues as River Road until the city...

, the Alta Vista apartments, lower class housing on Station Boulevard and on Russell Road. After this stage of development, townhouses were built in various locations of the neighbourhood. More recent developments are mostly middle-class developments, and also for retired people. The post-war housing is very heterogeneous, but newer developments are more homogeneous in character.

Features

Riverview is home to a number of hospitals, thanks to its central location. These include the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario is a major children's hospital and university teaching hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, serving Eastern Ontario and western Quebec. It is affiliated with The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, and is funded by the provincial Government of Ontario...

and the Ottawa General Hospital

The Ottawa Hospital

The Ottawa Hospital or L'Hôpital d'Ottawa is a major, non-profit, public, university teaching hospital in Ottawa made up of the former Grace Hospital, Riverside Hospital, Ottawa General Hospital and Ottawa Civic Hospital. It is a 1,195-bed academic health sciences centre...

. The Riverside Hospital

The Ottawa Hospital

is also nearby, and the neighbourhood is also home to the National Defence Medical Centre

National Defence Medical Centre

The National Defence Medical Centre was the national and largest hospital of the Canadian Forces in Ottawa, Canada. It served the needs of the members of the military. Constructed in 1961, it was closed in the 1990s due to budget cutbacks in National Defence and Veterans' Affairs Canada...

, the Ottawa Rehabilitation Centre and the Perley and Rideau Veteran's Health Centre.

Parks in Riverview include Dale Park, Hurdman Park, Balena Park, Riverview Park, Coronation Park and Hutton Park. Many of these are maintained by the Riverview Park Community Association.

Riverview is home to a diversity of schools. There is one French elementary school (Lycée Claudel), a French Catholic High School (Franco Cité), an English alternative education

Alternative education

Alternative education, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative, includes a number of approaches to teaching and learning other than mainstream or traditional education. Educational alternatives are often rooted in various philosophies that are fundamentally different...

school (Riverview

Riverview Alternative Public School

Riverview Alternative SchoolPrincipalChristine JohnsonSchool typePublic Religious affiliationNoneFounded1955LocationOttawa, OntarioEnrollment300Faculty20Campus surroundingsSuburbanSchool colour...

), an English public school (Vincent Massey

Vincent Massey Public School (Ottawa)

The Vincent Massey Public SchoolPrincipalDenis DelormeVice principalFay WooleySchool typePublicReligious affiliationNoneFounded1958LocationOttawa, OntarioEnrollment600-650Faculty39 Campus surroundings...

), and a private Montessori school. There are also five churches, a fire hall, a community centre (Dempsey), two shopping areas, and a number of parks. Riverview is also served by three transitway stations: Hurdman, Lycée Claudel and Smyth. Riverview is home to one of the oldest shopping centres in Ottawa, in the Alta Vista Shopping Centre. Riverview is also home to the St-Laurent-Russell Shopping Centre. The neighbourhood is served by the Dempsey Community Centre and is home to the Ottawa Life Sciences Technology Park.

The Riverview Park Community Association produced a free monthly newspaper for the neighbourhood, called Riverviews. When Riverviews stopped being published in December 2008, the "Riverview Park Review" became the community's new independent newspaper.

Sub neighbourhoods

Riverside

The Riverside neighbourhood consists of the area west of the CN Railway, and is often not considered part of Riverview. It located in the Capital ward, whereas the rest of the neighbourhood is in Alta Vista ward. It is not defined as being part of Riverview Park by the Riverview Park Community Association. However, many of its residents cross the railway to utilize the facilities. The Riverside neighbourhood is mostly all apartment buildings, except for a few townhouses. The apartment buildings line the old alignment of Riverside Drive which was bypassed in the 1980s. The neighbourhood is home to the Lycée Claudel school and borders on the Rideau River.

The Riviera Apartment Complex located north of Riverside Drive next to Hurdman Station is a condominium

Condominium

A condominium, or condo, is the form of housing tenure and other real property where a specified part of a piece of real estate is individually owned while use of and access to common facilities in the piece such as hallways, heating system, elevators, exterior areas is executed under legal rights...

complex which is home to many of Ottawa's upper class. Despite being a gated community, the complex was home to a triple homicide on June 29, 2007. http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/local/story.html?id=7abb14db-7b7e-4121-b88b-14331962ca47&k=30018

Alta Vista

This area of the neighbourhood should not be confused with the Alta Vista

Alta Vista (Ottawa)

neighbourhood to the south. This part of the neighbourhood is located west of Station Boulevard, but does not include it. The central focal point of this area is the Alta Vista Shopping Centre, and it is also home to the Alta Vista Towers. It is home to Riverview Alternative Public School and the Ottawa Montessori School. Mostly built in the 1950s and 1960s, it has one new subdivision off Rolland Avenue. This area is home to Dale Park, which has a Tennis facility in the summer and has an outdoor ice rink in the winter. Located adjacent to Riverview School is Riverview Park, which is named for the neighbourhood.

Blair Court (Station Boulevard)

The Blair Court area exists solely on the west side of Station Boulevard, and on Blair Street. It is home of lower-class public housing

Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. Social housing is an umbrella term referring to rental housing which may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the...

built in the 1960s and is home to many immigrants and visible minorities.

Coronation/Balena

This area is in the central part of the neighbourhood. It is mostly middle class, except for townhouses built in the 1980s. These are located on Pixley and Renova Privates, and on Avalon Place. The rest of the area is made up of post-war housing, except for new developments on the east side of Station Boulevard and along Avalon Place, and on Sonata Place and on the south side of Bathurst Avenue. This region is home to three churches, and two parks; Coronation and Balena Park. Balena has an outdoor swimming pool and a baseball diamond.

East area

The eastern part of Riverview is a contrast to the rest of the neighbourhood because of its straight parallel streets. It has access on the west to Balena Park, and has new townhouses on its north side off Coronation Avenue. The Perley and Rideau Veterans' home is located on the south.

Southwest

The southwest is the part of Riverview that is home to the majority of all the hospitals and the Medical Centre. It was also home to Rideau Veteran's Home until the 1990s when it was demolished. This was the only part of Riverview which existed before 1950. A new subdivision was built after 2000, and the street names have war remembrance themed names like, "Great Oak", "Valour Drive", and "Remembrance Cress".

Ottawa Life Sciences Technology Park

This area was first built up in the 1990s and is located off Smyth Road

Smyth Road

Smyth Road is a main road in eastern Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs from Riverside Drive to St. Laurent Boulevard. This residential area was developed in the 1950s...

. The first building was built in the 1990s, but has since expanded. Alta Vista Manor, a retirement home, was built in the early 2000s. The University of Ottawa

University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa is a bilingual, research-intensive, non-denominational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario. It is one of the oldest universities in Canada. It was originally established as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate...

maintains a small campus here. South of the Park is Franco-Cité, a French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

high school.

Elmvale Acres (North)

This area in the southeast of Riverview can also be considered part of Elmvale Acres

Elmvale Acres

Elmvale Acres is a neighbourhood in Alta Vista . It was built in the late 1950s by the contractor and property developer, Robert Campeau....

which is a neighbourhood to the south. It is separated from the rest of Riverview by power lines, and from Elmvale Acres by Smyth Road. Built in the 1950s, it is home to Vincent Massey Public School, Hutton Park and two churches. Across from Russell Road on the east is Dempsey Community Centre, and some apartment buildings.

Russell (and St. Laurent)

"Russell" is a part of Riverview known for being lower income, and having a large Black Canadian

Black Canadian

'Black Canadians is a designation used for people of Black African descent, who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada. The term specifically refers to Canadians with Sub-Saharan African ancestry. The majority of Black Canadians are of Caribbean origin...

population. This part of Riverview is located on the east side of Russell Road. Located north of this subdivision is the run-down St-Laurent-Russell Shopping Centre. St. Laurent Boulevard on the east is home to many commercial establishments and is within view of the National Museum of Science and Technology

Canada Science and Technology Museum

The Canada Science and Technology Museum is located in Ottawa, Ontario, on St. Laurent Boulevard, to the south of the Queensway .-Mission:...

. Further north along Russell Road and Industrial Avenue is home to many industrial establishments.

Politics

The neighbourhood is represented by David McGuinty

David McGuinty

David Joseph McGuinty, MP is a Canadian lawyer politician from Ontario, Canada. He is the Member of Parliament for the riding of Ottawa South and sits in the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal Party of Canada's Critic for Natural Resources...

(Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

) in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

, and his brother, Dalton McGuinty

Dalton McGuinty

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP is a Canadian lawyer, politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario....

(Liberal

Ontario Liberal Party

The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...

) in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...

. Dalton McGuinty is also the Premier of Ontario

Premier of Ontario

The Premier of Ontario is the first Minister of the Crown for the Canadian province of Ontario. The Premier is appointed as the province's head of government by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and presides over the Executive council, or Cabinet. The Executive Council Act The Premier of Ontario...

. Most of Riverview is represented by Peter Hume on Ottawa City Council

Ottawa City Council

The Ottawa City Council is the governing body of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is composed of 23 city councillors and the mayor. The mayor is elected at large, while each of the councillors represent wards throughout the city. Council members are elected to four year terms with the...

, but west of the CN railway, it is represented by Clive Doucet

Clive Doucet

Clive Doucet is a Canadian writer and politician.Doucet was born in 1946 in London, England to an Acadian serviceman and an English war bride. Doucet grew up in the city of Ottawa, Ontario. He also spent some of his youth in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Doucet was raised as a Catholic,...

.

Members of Parliament

James Alexander Grant
James Alexander Grant
Sir James Alexander Grant, KCMG was an Ontario physician and political figure. He represented Russell in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative Party of Canada member from 1867 to 1874; he also represented the City of Ottawa in the federal parliament from 1893 to 1896.He was born in...

, Conservative
Conservative Party of Canada (historical)
The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation. Initially known as the "Liberal-Conservative Party", it dropped "Liberal" from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.As a result of World War I and the...

(1867–1874); Russell
Russell (Ontario electoral district)
Russell was a federal and provincial electoral district in eastern Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1968, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1967....
Robert Blackburn
Robert Blackburn (politician)
Robert Blackburn was a member of the Canadian House of Commons.Blackburn was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1828, the son of Robert Blackburn, and came to Canada in 1842. He became a lumber merchant and partner in woollen mills. He was reeve of Gloucester Township, Ontario in 1864...

, Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

(1874–1878); Russell
John O'Connor, Conservative (1878–1882); Russell
Moss Kent Dickinson
Moss Kent Dickinson
Moss Kent Dickinson was a Canadian businessman, mayor of Ottawa from 1864 to 1866 and member of the Canadian Parliament from 1882 to 1887....

, Conservative (1882–1887); Russell
William Cameron Edwards
William Cameron Edwards
William Cameron Edwards was a Canadian businessman and parliamentarian.He was born in Clarence Township in Russell County, Ontario in 1844, the son of William Edwards and Ann Cameron, received basic schooling in Ottawa and, at a young age, began work in the timber industry at Thurso, Quebec. He...

, Liberal (1887–1903); Russell
David Wardrope Wallace
David Wardrope Wallace
David Wardrope Wallace was an Ontario physician and political figure. He represented Russell in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1903 to 1904....

, Liberal (1903–1904); Russell
Norman Frank Wilson
Norman Frank Wilson
Norman Frank Wilson was an Ontario farmer and political figure.-Early life; and political office:He was born in Cumberland Township, Ontario in 1876, the son of William Wilson and Mary McElroy. He studied at Upper Canada College and the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph...

, Liberal (1904–1908); Russell
Charles Murphy
Charles Murphy (Canadian politician)
Charles Murphy, PC was a Canadian politician and Liberal MP for Russell in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1925. He was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1925....

, Liberal (1908–1925); Russell
Alfred Goulet
Alfred Goulet
Alfred Goulet was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Russell in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1922 to 1923 and in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1945 as a Liberal member....

, Liberal (1925–1945); Russell
Joseph-Omer Gour
Joseph-Omer Gour
Joseph-Omer Gour was an Ontario farmer, merchant and political figure. He represented Russell in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1945 to 1959....

, Liberal (1945–1959); Russell
Paul Tardif
Paul Tardif
J. Paul Tardif was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Russell in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal from 1959 to 1968....

, Liberal (1959–1968); Russell
John Turner
John Turner
John Napier Wyndham Turner, PC, CC, QC is an English Canadian lawyer and retired politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984....

, Liberal (1968–1976); Ottawa—Carleton
Ottawa—Carleton
Ottawa–Carleton was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1988. This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Carleton, Ottawa East and Russell ridings....
Jean Pigott
Jean Pigott
Jean Elizabeth Morrison Pigott, OC is a former Canadian politician and businessperson.Pigott's family has lived in the Ottawa Valley for four generations. She was president and CEO of her family's business, Morrison-Lamothe Bakery, one of only three women CEOs in Canada in the early 1970s...

, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

(1976–1979); Ottawa—Carleton
Jean-Robert Gauthier
Jean-Robert Gauthier
Jean-Robert Gauthier, CM, O.Ont was a Canadian politician.A chiropractor by training, he entered politics as trustee on a local school board. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons to represent the riding of Ottawa East in the 1972 election as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament...

, Liberal (1979–1988); Ottawa—Vanier
Ottawa—Vanier
Ottawa—Vanier is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1935...
John Manley
John Manley (politician)
John Paul Manley, PC, OC is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to 2004, and a Cabinet Minister from 1993 to 2003. He is presently President and CEO of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.-Background:Manley was...

, Liberal (1988–2004); Ottawa South
Ottawa South
Ottawa South is a federal electoral district in Ottawa in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is represented in the Canadian House of Commons by David McGuinty, brother of Ontario Premier and Ottawa South MPP Dalton McGuinty. The riding was created in 1987 from parts of Ottawa—Vanier, Ottawa...
David McGuinty
David McGuinty
David Joseph McGuinty, MP is a Canadian lawyer politician from Ontario, Canada. He is the Member of Parliament for the riding of Ottawa South and sits in the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal Party of Canada's Critic for Natural Resources...

, Liberal (2004–present); Ottawa South

Federal

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|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|David McGuinty

David McGuinty

|align="right"|2,420
|align="right"|45.52
|align="right"|44.15

|Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada

The Conservative Party of Canada , is a political party in Canada which was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. It is positioned on the right of the Canadian political spectrum...

|Allan Cutler

Allan Cutler

Allan S. Cutler is a former Canadian public servant notable for his role as the whistleblower who reported anomalies in a Canadian sponsorship program designed to raise awareness in Quebec of the Government of Canada's contributions to Quebec industries and culture. This program was undertaken to...

|align="right"|1,690
|align="right"|31.79
|align="right"|37.43

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

Green Party of Canada

The Green Party of Canada is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1983 with 10,000–12,000 registered members as of October 2008. The Greens advance a broad multi-issue political platform that reflects its core values of ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy and...

Progressive Canadian Party

The Progressive Canadian Party is a minor federal political party in Canada. It is a centre/centre-right party that was officially registered with Elections Canada, the government's election agency, on March 29, 2004....

|Brad Thomson
|align="right"|27
|align="right"|0.51
|align="right"|0.44
|}

|}

|Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

|David McGuinty

David McGuinty

|align="right"|2,482
|align="right"|47.28
|align="right"|43.82

|Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada

|Alan Riddell

Alan Riddell

Alan Riddell is a bilingual labour relations lawyer and partner with the law firm of Soloway Wright LLP in Ottawa, Canada. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and France's Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris...

|align="right"|1,488
|align="right"|28.34
|align="right"|34.81

|New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

|Monia Mazigh

Monia Mazigh

Monia Mazigh is a Canadian academic best known for her efforts to free her husband Maher Arar from a Syrian prison. A resident of Ottawa, Ontario, she was the New Democratic Party candidate for the riding of Ottawa South, a traditionally Liberal riding, in the 2004 federal election.She was born...

|align="right"|830
|align="right"|15.81
|align="right"|13.64

|Green

Green Party of Canada

Marijuana Party of Canada

The Marijuana Party is a Canadian federal political party. Its agenda consists of ending prohibition of cannabis. With the exception of this one issue, the party does not have "official policy" in any other area...

|John Akpata

John Akpata

John Andrew Akpata is a writer, spoken word artist, musician, freelance journalist and federal politician in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.-Writing, media and spoken word:Akpata is a graduate of Carleton University and holds a degree in English literature...

|align="right"|53
|align="right"|1.01
|align="right"|0.83

|Progressive Canadian

Progressive Canadian Party

Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)

The Communist Party of Canada is a Canadian federal Marxist–Leninist political party.The party is registered with Elections Canada as the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada...

|Saroj Bains
|align="right"|6
|align="right"|0.11
|align="right"|0.13
|}

^ Results are for polls 3-18, 400-406 and 500 in Ottawa South.

Provincial

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|Liberal
|Dalton McGuinty

Dalton McGuinty

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP is a Canadian lawyer, politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario....

|align="right"|2,497
|align="right"|53.41
|align="right"|51.70

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...

Ontario New Democratic Party

The Ontario New Democratic Party or , formally known as New Democratic Party of Ontario, is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party. It was formed in October 1961, a few months after the federal party. The ONDP had its...

Green Party of Canada

Family Coalition Party of Ontario

The Family Coalition Party is a small political party in Ontario, Canada that promotes a socially conservative ideology. It was formed in 1987 by members of the pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and has fielded candidates in every provincial election since then...

|John Pacheco
|align="right"|70
|align="right"|1.50
|align="right"|1.18
|}

^ Results are for polls 2-23 in Ottawa South.

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