Westboro has many smaller single-family homes, while the area
along Island Park Drive is larger impressive single family homes
from the 1940s, popular with many of the city's ambassadors.
Further west are newer neighbourhoods developed in the 1960s,
including Carlington, Bel-Air Heights, Highland Park, Carlingwood,
and Lincoln Fields. Carlingwood caters to a large resident senior
citizen population, with a seniors centre in the shopping mall,
and excellent transit service. The far-west community of Britannia
was a lakeside cottage country in the first part of the 1900's
and still has a rural feel, without curbed streets and with
very pretty gardens in the summertime. The newer neighbourhoods
along Baseline are built in the 1970s and include many single-family
homes
This area is well populated with schools, with 3 public high
schools, 2 Catholic high schools, 16 elementary public and 9
elementary Catholic schools. The area is close to Algonquin
College's Woodroffe campus and not far from Carleton University.
The University of Ottawa is readily accessible by public transit.
The area has a couple of shopping malls, mostly clustered along
Carling Avenue, though in the far west, residents go to nearby
Bayshore. The major shopping areas close-by are Merivale Road
to the area's south, and Bell's Corners to the west, up Richmond
Rd. In the eastern part of the area, residents have access to
Preston's Italian markets and Somerset's Asian stores.
This part of Ottawa is bounded by the Ottawa River Parkway
on the north, with its biking and inline blading trails. The
Central Experimental Farm pathways provide another east-west
trail. This area has 4 swimming pools and 5 ice arenas. Carlington
Park's ski hill is in the middle of the community, and Dow's
Lake and the Rideau Canal lies on the eastern edge. A number
of sailing clubs lie just west of the area, on Lac des Chenes
on the Ottawa River.
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