Carlington is a residential neighbourhood in the city of Ottawa

Ottawa

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, Ontario

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, Canada

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. It had a population of 12,585 in 2001, which dropped to 10,107 in 2006. The neighbourhood is bordered by:

• Maitland Avenue to the west.
• Carling Avenue
  Carling Avenue
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   and the Queensway
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   to the north.
• Fisher Avenue to the east.
• Central Experimental Farm
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   to the south.

Carlington contains less than 435 older pre-1945 homes, primarily along Fisher Avenue. Some 2000 dwellings were built from 1945 to 1960. The houses built in the time period immediately following World War II

World War II

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 were meant for returning veterans and are therefore known as "war homes" or "veteran homes". Many of the streets in the neighbourhood also reflect this military heritage (eg. Viscount Avenue, Admiral Avenue). From 1961 to 1970, 1440 homes and apartments were built and from 1971 to 1980, another 1380. After 1981, the construction of new dwellings sharply drops down to less than 400 for the remainder of the 20th century.

A notable geographic feature in the neighbourhood is Carlington Hill, a large hill with long gradual slopes. Part of it was formerly a ski hill with tow lift (known as Anne Heggtveit

Anne Heggtveit

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 Hill), but now used as a City of Ottawa approved sledding hill. The western part of the hill was quarried for limestone, which was crushed and used as lime for the production of cement. The former quarry is now used as a city snow dump.

Recreation

Community centres in the neighbourhood are the Alexander Community Centre, Bellevue Community Centre, and Carlington Recreation Centre.

The major park in the neighbourhood is Carlington Park which includes, in addition to the Carlington Tobaggan Hill, the J. Alph Dulude Arena and 4 baseball diamonds.

Schools

• W.E. Gowling Public School - English public elementary school (Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
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  )
• Saint Elizabeth School - English Roman Catholic elementary school (Ottawa Catholic School Board
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  )
• St. Nicholas Adult High School - adult high school (Ottawa Catholic School Board
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  )
• Turnbull School and Learning Centre
  Turnbull School
  The Turnbull School is a full-time private, non-denominational school for students in Junior Kindergarten to grade 8 located in the Carlington neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.-History:...
  
   (private school)

External links

• Carlington Community
• The Carlington Summit (archive of defunct community newspaper)