Upper Ottawa Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
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Upper Ottawa Street is an Upper City (mountain) arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It starts off at Mountain Brow Boulevard in the north and extends southward where it ends just past Rymal Road at the South Hamilton Industrial Park. It is a two-way street throughout.

History

Named Upper Ottawa Street because it is in approximate alignment with Ottawa Street
Ottawa Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
Ottawa street, is a Lower City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Lawrence Road at the base of the Niagara Escarpment and is a two-way street throughout cutting through the Delta and Crown Point neighbourhoods and the City's North End industrial neighbourhood...

 in Lower City Hamilton. Ottawa Street is known as the Fabric & Textile District and is Hamilton's "Decor Destination."
In actuality, it is aligned with Balmoral Avenue South, which runs from Lawrence Road (south) to Barton Street East (north).

Major intersections

Note #1: Listing of streets from North to South.
  • Mountain Brow Boulevard
  • Queensdale Avenue East
  • Fennell Avenue
    Fennell Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Fennell Avenue, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts of just West Garth Street on the West mountain and is a two-way street throughout that extends eastward and ends at Mountain Brow Boulevard, a road that wraps around the edge of the Niagara Escarpment on...

     East
  • Mohawk Road
    Mohawk Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Mohawk Road, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is a two-way street throughout that starts just West of Highway 403 & Meadowlands and travels eastward linking up with the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway. Mohawk Road east of Highway 403 resumes again in front of Iroquoia...

     East
  • Limeridge Road
    Limeridge Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Limeridge Road is a two-way Upper City collector road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off just West of Garth Street/William McCulloch Park as Limeridge Court and cuts across the Hamilton mountain eastward running parallel with the Lincoln M...

     East
  • Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
    Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
    The Lincoln Alexander Parkway, officially nicknamed "The Linc", is a municipal expressway in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario. Located on the Hamilton mountain, atop the Niagara Escarpment...

     The "Linc" actually passes underneath Upper Ottawa Street
  • Stone Church Road
    Stone Church Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Stone Church Road, is a two-way Upper City east-west arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at Golf Links Road, just east of Meadowlands, and goes across the Escarpment and ends at Upper Mount Albion Road....

     East
  • ; Rymal Road East

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