Stittsville

Stittsville is a suburban community, part of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is within the former Goulbourn Township. A part of the National Capital Region, Stittsville is immediately to the southwest of Kanata, and about 31 km (19 mi) west of Downtown Ottawa. The urban part of the community corresponds to Stittsville Ward on Ottawa City Council. Three school boards are represented in the area: Ottawa Catholic School Board, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and Centre-East French Catholic School Board; Sacred Heart Catholic High School, Frederick Banting Secondary Alternate Program[2] and École secondaire catholique Paul-Desmarais[3] are the high schools.

This article is about the community. For the 1960 album by Sonny Stitt, see Stittsville (album).
Stittsville
Community
Stittsville
Location in Ottawa
Coordinates: 45°16′N 75°55′W
Country Canada
Province Ontario
City Ottawa
Government
 • MayorJim Watson
 • City CouncillorGlen Gower
 • Member of ParliamentPierre Poilievre
 • Member of Provincial ParliamentGoldie Ghamari
Area
 • Total7.74 km2 (2.99 sq mi)
Population
 (2019)[1]
41,350
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code FSA
K2S
Area code(s)613, 343

History

The first settlers to the area were Irish soldiers, arriving in the 1820s. The town itself was born in the 1850s by Jackson Stitt, for whom the town is named; he was also the first postmaster in the area.[4]

By 1866, Stittsville was a post village with a population of 100, situated in the township of Goulbourn. The village contained one general store, one common school, with an average attendance of seventeen pupils. The Loyal Orange Lodge, No. 210, met in Orange Hall, on the first Thursday in each month. The citizens included John S Argue, general merchant and postmaster.[5]

The Great Carleton Fire of 1870 devastated the community, destroying nearly everything. Kemp's Tavern on Hazeldean road, built in 1868, which now houses "Cabotto's Restaurant" and a handful of other buildings were all that was left standing. This was an extremely large fire, encompassing over 250,000 acres (1,000 km2) from Ottawa to Smiths Falls to Carleton Place.[4]

Media

Stittsville's community Newspaper is "The Stittsville & Richmond Community Voice " which is distributed every second week to ALL 17,933 homes, apartments and businesses by Canada Post. This newspaper was started in August 2019. The Stittsville & Richmond Community Voice details may found at: ottawavoice.ca The Stittsville News was a weekly newspaper published by Metroland Media. Its 2015 circulation was about 13,446. This paper was sold to Postmedia who closed it in January 2019 and is no longer in circulation[6][7]

There is also one online news site published in Stittsville: StittsvilleCentral.ca.

Stittsville was featured as one of the filming locations for the 1988 CBC TV Movie "The Bobby Gimby Story".[8]

Notable residents

Neighbourhoods
  • Amberway
  • Amberwood Village
  • Bryanston Gate
  • Blackrock
  • Crossing Bridge
  • Deer Run
  • Fairwinds
  • Forest Creek
  • Fringewood
  • Fringewood North
  • Granite Ridge
  • Jackson Trails
  • Old Stittsville
  • Poole Creek Village
  • Timbermere
  • Upcountry
  • West Ridge
  • Westwind Farms
  • Wyldewood

References
  1. "Current population and household estimates (2019, by ward)". City of Ottawa. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  2. "Frederick Banting Secondary Alternate Program". Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  3. "École secondaire catholique Paul-Desmarais" (in French). Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  4. "Stittsville and Area". Goulbourn Historical Society. Archived from the original on July 27, 2007.
  5. Ottawa City and counties of Carleton and Russell Directory, 1866-7
  6. http://www.newspaperscanada.ca/sites/default/files/Community_Newspaper_Snapshot_2015_Report_FINAL.pdf
  7. OttawaStart.com: Postmedia to close community papers
  8. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6234414/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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