Four Prioritized Areas

Based on the University of Ottawa study, the following four areas have been prioritized for the beginning of CDF implementation in 2008-09 (listed in alphabetical order):

1. Bayshore Area
2. Carlington Area
3. Overbrook-McArthur Area
4. West Centretown Area

Steering Tables have been established in all the four prioritized areas. Community Health and Resource Centres in these areas are playing the key coordination and implementation role.

All the four Steering Tables have identified neighbourhoods within these areas for community engagement in stragtegic local level planning. Other areas will be phased in to implement the CDF approach over time.

Bayshore Area

Bayshore is one of the prioritized areas for implementation of the CDF approach. According to University of Ottawa's study the Bayshore area is bounded by the Ottawa River to the north, the Queensway to the south, Ridgevalley Drive to the east, and Holly Acres Road to the west.  [ click to View Bayshore area as per University of Ottawa area Study - PDF format 537 KB ]. However, to begin the community engagement process and do effective local level planning with residents, it was necessary to focus on specific neighbourhoods within the Bayshore area.

Selected Neighbourhood: The Steering Table has decided to engage residents in teh CDF process in the South West corner of the prioritized area (as shown in the map on the right), which is called Bayshore Proper and consists of Minto apartment building and garden houses along the Woodridge Crescent off Bayshore Drive.

For details, See: Bayshore

 

Carlington Area

Carlington Area is bounded by Carling Avenue to the north, Kingston Avenue and Caldwell Avenue to the south, Fisher Avenue to the east, and Maitland to the west. 

This area contains a small number of older homes that were built after WWII to accommodate returning veterans.  These homes were known as “war homes” or “veteran homes”. 

Many of the street names (e.g., Admiral, Veteran, Marshall) reflect the military heritage of the area. [ click to view Carlington Area as identified in the University of Ottawa study - PDF format 833 KB ]

Selected Neighbourhood: The Steering Tables has decided to begin CDF implementation in the Bellevue neighbourhood (in the South Centra portion of the highlighted areas in the map on the right).

For details, see: Carlington

 

Overbrook-Forbes McArthus Area

Overbrook West - McArthur is bounded on the north by Montreal-Olmstead-Cyr-Enfield-Steven-Carmen-Irwin Miller-McArthur. To the south lies Highway 417, St. Laurent Boulevard to the east, and the Rideau River to the west. The Duke Cornwall and the Duchess of York visited Ottawa in 1901. Ten years later, upon the death of King Edward VII, the Duke and Duchess acceded to the throne as King George V and Queen Mary. Within a year, the first reference to Overbrook is found on a map published by Thorburn & Abbott. The community of Overbrook had two streets named after the newly crowned King and Queen commemorating their coronation, and a third street commemorating the consort of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert. [ click to view map of the area - PDF format 1016 KB ]

As the pie chart above shows, French was slightly predominant as a mother tongue as of the 2001 census. Twenty-five percent of the residents were immigrants; while 5% were recent immigrants (i.e. came to Canada within the last 5 years).

Selected Neighbourhoods:

The Steering Table has decided to begin implementation of the CDF process in the 255 Donald Street and expand it to the surrounding neighbourhoods.

For details, see: Overbrook-Forbes McArthur

West-Centretown 

West Centretown is bounded by Albert Street and Scott Street on the north, Carling Avenue on the south, Bronson Avenue to the east, and the O-Train line-Highway 417-Bayswater Avenue to the west. The initial Italians immigrants of Little Italy arrived at the beginning of the twentieth century. Then after the Second World War, another substantial number of Italian immigrants (as well as many Eastern European immigrants) decided to settle in the area. A proud community, Little Italy is host to several annual festivals celebrating Italian culture in Ottawa, such as “Italian Week Settimana Italiana” and “La Vendammia”. [ click to view the area map - PDF format 1325 KB ]

Selected Neighbourhood:

The Steering Table has decided to begin implementation of the CDF process in Rochester Heights and Lebreton flats in the South and North of the highlighted area in the picture on the right.

For details see: West Centretown

 

Neighbourhoods Selection

There are no single definitions of neighbourhood or neighbourhood work. 

For the purpose of the CDF and impelemrntation of the NCLB approach at the grassoots level, neighbourhoods is considered as, a small area that is recognized by its residents as a shared space bounded by geography and relationships.

For selecting neighbourhoods within the four prioritized areas, the Steering Tables looked into various factors, including the general criteria described here. The objective was to narrow down to the areas which the residents consider as their neighbourhoods for more effective community engagement and realistic action planning. Minutes of the Steering Tables also cast some light on the neighbourhood selection process.

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