{
 "title": "Elmvale Acres, Ottawa: neighbourhood factsheet",
 "name": "Elmvale Acres",
 "slug": "elmvaleacres",
 "summary": "Elmvale Acres is a post-war residential neighbourhood in Ottawa’s Alta Vista area. Campeau Construction Company first offered housing here in 1955. A City heritage study describes detached mid-century homes and tree-lined streets. Nearby destinations include the Elmvale Acres library branch and Canterbury Recreation Complex. By car, downtown Ottawa (Parliament Hill) is about 9.6 km away, roughly 14 minutes in free-flowing traffic (OSRM estimate).",
 "centre": [
  45.3975,
  -75.633
 ],
 "boundaries": "Definitions vary. This guide follows the community association’s residential core: Smyth Road to the north, Othello Avenue to the east, Pleasant Park Road to the south and the hydro corridor to the west. The shopping centre and other surrounding destinations are described as nearby amenities.",
 "boundaries_source": [
  "https://www.elmvaleacres.org/about-us.html",
  "https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=45.3975&mlon=-75.633#map=15/45.3975/-75.633"
 ],
 "housing": "The City’s area study describes mostly Campeau-built detached homes of one or two storeys, often with red-brick exteriors, large picture windows and long driveways. This is an area-level description, not an individual property assessment or heritage designation.",
 "housing_source": [
  "https://pub-ottawa.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?documentid=24433"
 ],
 "facts": [
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Municipal ward",
   "value": "Ward 18 — Alta Vista",
   "as_of": "2022",
   "source": [
    "https://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/default/files/map_ward_18_2022_en.pdf"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "First housing offered by Campeau",
   "value": "1955",
   "as_of": "1955",
   "source": [
    "https://www.gloucesterhistory.com/placenames.html"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Elmvale Acres library branch opened",
   "value": "1963",
   "as_of": "1963",
   "source": [
    "https://about.biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/branch/elmvale-acres"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "counts",
   "label": "Schools inside the neighbourhood (this guide)",
   "value": 6,
   "as_of": "2026-10-30",
   "source": [
    "https://elmvaleacres.homes/data/places.json"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "counts",
   "label": "Parks & places inside the neighbourhood (this guide)",
   "value": 17,
   "as_of": "2026-10-30",
   "source": [
    "https://elmvaleacres.homes/data/places.json"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "counts",
   "label": "Shops & restaurants inside the neighbourhood (this guide)",
   "value": 14,
   "as_of": "2026-10-30",
   "source": [
    "https://elmvaleacres.homes/data/places.json"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "community_associations": [
  "Elmvale Acres Community Association"
 ],
 "page": "https://elmvaleacres.homes/neighbourhoods/elmvaleacres/",
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0 for this compilation (credit elmvaleacres.homes). Census figures: Statistics Canada 2021 Census via the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study (Statistics Canada Open Licence). Walk times and counts are derived from OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0).",
 "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "generated": "2026-10-30"
}