About

A local guide, built street by street

Who makes this site, how we research it, and how to get a website for your own home.

elmvaleacres.homes is an independent guide to Elmvale Acres, a post-war neighbourhood in Ottawa's east-central Alta Vista area, City of Ottawa (Alta Vista Ward). It is made by a small local team that builds websites for homes that are for sale.

Updated October 30, 2026 · Facts on this page link to their sources

Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa. Photo: Earl Andrew, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Who we are

Neighbours, not a portal

We are not a real-estate brokerage and we do not represent buyers or sellers. Each home on this site has its own website; the listing agent and brokerage stay the contact for the sale.

How we work

Every fact links to its source: the municipality, the school boards, the transit agency, OpenStreetMap, Statistics Canada, Wikipedia and local organizations.
Listing facts and prices come only from REALTOR.ca. Market statistics come from the Ottawa Real Estate Board, quoted with their date.
Photos are free-licence images, credited where they appear.
Distances are straight-line and drive times are routing estimates; they are labelled as such.

For sellers

Get a website for your home

If your home has a for-sale sign, we can give it its own website: every photo, room sizes, the neighbourhood, schools, commute and open house, on an easy address like 123yourstreet.ca. It links into this guide, so buyers can see the whole area.

We build it first. A student from the neighbourhood shows you your home's finished site on an iPad. You decide if you want it.
You pay $50. We register a short address for your home and host the site while it is for sale.
Share it everywhere. Put the address on your sign rider, in your feature sheet and on social media.
When it sells, the address forwards to this hub's Sold page.

Email us See an example

We use your listing's public REALTOR.ca information and photos only with the seller's or listing agent's permission.

Credits

Photo credits

Every photo on elmvaleacres.homes is used under a free licence. Listing photos on home websites belong to the listing brokerage.

Elmvale Shopping Ctr. Photo: User:P199, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Canterbury High School. Photo: SimonP at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Franco-Cite. Photo: SimonP at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ste Genevieve Parish, Ottawa. Photo: Earl Andrew, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hawthorne Park, Ottawa. Photo: Earl Andrew, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa. Photo: Earl Andrew, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ottawa General. Photo: unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons