Smyth Road is a main road in eastern Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada. It runs from Riverside Drive

Riverside Drive (Ottawa)

Riverside Drive is a major road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that follows along the eastern bank of the Rideau River. From its northern terminus at the Transitway/Via Rail underpass just south of the Queensway, the road proceeds south to Limebank Road where it continues as River Road until the city...

 to St. Laurent Boulevard

St. Laurent Boulevard (Ottawa)

St. Laurent Boulevard is an arterial road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Beginning at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police college complex at Sandridge Road in the Manor Park neighbourhood, St. Laurent Boulevard runs in a straight line, slightly east of south, until it reaches Walkley Road. It then...

. This residential area was developed in the 1950s. The street was originally lined with large elm trees, giving the area the name Elmvale Acres.

Smyth Road is home of two of three campuses of the Ottawa Hospital including Riverside Hospital located near Riverside Drive, the Southeast OC Transpo

OC Transpo

OC Transpo is the urban transit service of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. An integrated hub-and-spoke system of services is available consisting of: regular buses travelling on fixed routes in mixed traffic, typical of most urban transit systems; a bus rapid transit system — a high...

 Transitway

Ottawa Rapid Transit

In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the public transit service operated by OC Transpo has two rapid transit systems: the Transitway, a bus rapid transit network, and the O-Train, a diesel-powered light rail transit service operated on one line.-Major routes:...

, Alta Vista Drive and the Rideau River

Rideau River

thumb|Rapids on the Rideau River opposite [[Carleton University]].The Rideau River is a Southern Ontario river which flows north from Upper Rideau Lake and empties into the Ottawa River at Rideau Falls in Ottawa, Ontario. Its length is 146 km...

. It also includes the Ottawa General Hospital http://www.ottawahospital.on.ca/directions/general-e.asp located in a large medical complex which includes the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario is a major children's hospital and university teaching hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, serving Eastern Ontario and western Quebec. It is affiliated with The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, and is funded by the provincial Government of Ontario...

 http://www.cheo.on.ca/, the Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre http://www.octc.ca/main/index.asp, the Rehabilitation Centre the Regional Cancer Centre and the University of Ottawa

University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa is a bilingual, research-intensive, non-denominational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario. It is one of the oldest universities in Canada. It was originally established as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate...

's Medical Campus in which it house the Faculty of Medicine (also known as the Health Sciences Centre). http://www.medecine.uottawa.ca/eng/