College Ward or Ward 8 (French: Quartier Collège ) is a city ward in Ottawa , Canada 's west end. The ward covers the neighbourhoods of Bells Corners , Qualicum , Graham Park , Leslie Park , Redwood , Kenson Park , Parkway Park , Bel-Air Park , Bel-Air Heights , Braemar Park , Copeland Park , Briargreen , Centrepointe , Navaho , City View , Ryan Farm , Meadowlands and Crestview .
12-427: Prior to the 2006 election, College Ward was known as Baseline Ward , and didn't include Bells Corners. It was incorporated into the city with amalgamation in 2001 (elections were held in 2000). Previously, the ward existed on the earlier Ottawa-Carleton Regional Council. The ward is represented on city council by Laine Johnson . The ward has an estimated population of 55,000 (2006) and an area of 46.2 km. The ward
24-610: A single City of Ottawa in 2001 by the Fewer Municipal Politicians Act of Ontario (1999), by the government of Premier Mike Harris , re-elected promising a " Common Sense Revolution ." Several other Ontario conurbations were also unified under the Act, listed at. Ottawa thus became in sheer area one of the largest municipalities in Canada, roughly 65 kilometres by 32, much of this farmland, although 90 per cent of
36-537: A software developer, and activist Laura Lee Doupe. Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality The Regional Municipality of Ottawa–Carleton was a Regional Municipality and Census Division in Ontario, Canada, that existed between January 1, 1969, and January 1, 2001, and was primarily centred on the City of Ottawa . It was created in 1969 by restructuring Carleton County and annexing Cumberland Township from
48-955: Is named for Algonquin College . Prior to amalgamation, the area now covered by College Ward in Ottawa's west end was in Carleton Ward . It was created in 1950, when Ottawa's west end was annexed from Nepean Township . The ward eventually became smaller and smaller, and by 1972 it only consisted of the area south of the Queensway and west of Clyde Avenue. Two aldermen elected for the newly created Carleton Ward Two to be elected Two to be elected Two to be elected Two to be elected Two to be elected Two to be elected Two to be elected Two to be elected Two to be elected Two to be elected Longtime incumbent Rick Chiarelli faced opposition from Brett Delmage
60-579: The United Counties of Prescott and Russell into the newly created Region of Ottawa–Carleton. It was the second Regional Municipality to be created in Ontario after the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto . It served as an upper-tier level of municipal government, aggregating municipal services on a region-wide basis like the Counties and Regional Municipalities of Southern Ontario, and was
72-547: The 1990s, when the provincial government added some vast unorganized areas ( territoires non organisés ) into self-governing municipalities, centred on a single dominant urban centre and surrounded by extensive tracts of forest and sparsely populated expanses. The geographically massive cities in Ontario were created in the 1990s, when the provincial government converted some counties and regional municipalities into self-governing rural single-tier municipalities , centred on
84-517: The Region and, by the end of the 1990s, 85% of municipal services were delivered by the Region. This included mass transit, policing, arterial roads, sewage, water, social services, garbage collection and Regional planning. Periodical reorganization (e.g. rural townships acquiring city status, as in 1974 and 1978) did not impede the process. However the constituent municipalities of the RMOC were unified in
96-487: The largest cities and towns in Canada by area Canada had 1,137 municipalities that held city , town or ville status as of 2011. This list presents the 100 largest of these municipalities by land area in square kilometres at the time of the 2011 census . The geographically massive cities in Quebec – three of them larger than the entire province of Prince Edward Island – were created in
108-642: The lower-tier municipal councils. Many of the new Regional wards crossed municipal boundaries, which in the eyes of many local residents undermined local or historical differences. Generally in Ontario regional government reforms of the 1990s were sometimes mistrusted as preparation for eventual creation of unified "mega-cities", but this was not before 1999 a topic of local political anxiety in Ottawa-Carleton. 45°10′N 75°45′W / 45.167°N 75.750°W / 45.167; -75.750 See Regional Chair of Ottawa-Carleton . List of
120-734: The only upper-tier municipal government ever created in Eastern Ontario. The Regional Municipality was dissolved upon the creation of the amalgamated City of Ottawa on January 1, 2001. The Regional Municipality originally consisted of the Cities of Ottawa and Eastview, the Villages of Rockcliffe Park , Richmond and Stittsville , and the Townships of Torbolton , Fitzroy , Huntley , March , Goulbourn , Nepean , Osgoode , Marlborough , North Gower , Gloucester and Cumberland . At
132-564: The population live in urban concentrations. On formation in 1969, the RMOC was a Council of members selected by the municipal councils, who elected among themselves a Regional Chairman . In 1991, the Regional chairman was for the first time directly elected by the people of the Region, which municipal mayors earlier resisted, fearing the chairman would effectively become a "super mayor". In 1994, Regional councillors were directly elected to represent Regional wards, rather than being appointed from
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#1732790736181144-426: The same time as the creation of the Region, the City of Eastview was renamed the City of Vanier . The Region, known as an "upper-tier" level of municipal government, was created to manage municipal services that crossed municipal boundaries and were more efficiently provided to residents on a regional, as opposed to local, basis. Over time, more and more services were transferred from the "lower-tier" municipalities to
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