Kanata

Kanata is a suburban area in the western part of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located just to the west of the Greenbelt and is one of the largest of several communities that surround central Ottawa. It is a planned community, and it is notable for being an important hi-tech centre. Situated in the Ottawa Valley, Kanata is located about 22 km (14 miles) west-southwest of downtown Ottawa along Highway 417 at a latitude of 45 degrees 18" North and a longitude of 75 degrees 55" West, with an area of 139 km. To the east, Kanata is separated fr0m the former City of Nepean by the National Capital Commission Greenbelt (Ottawa). The community of Bells Corners, borders the inner side of the Greenbelt. Bells Corners is itself a hi-tech suburb that was established circa 1950, and was home to such Canadian technology icons as Computing Devices Canada, the Ottawa-based defence electronics company (now General Dynamics), which blazed the trail for later defence technology firms in what would later be known as Silicon Valley North, or Kanata. To the west of Kanata is Stittsville, Ontario, first a farming community, then a village, then part of the township of Goulbourn, Stittsville is now a large suburb which was amalgamated into the new City of Ottawa in 2001, and largely employed by the hi-tech industry. Northern Kanata lies just to the west of the Ottawa River. To the south of Kanata is the former village Richmond, Ontario which was also amalgamated into the City of Ottawa.

Kanata's neighbourhoods include: Beaverbrook, Bridlewood, Emerald Meadows, Glen Cairn, Hazeldean, Morgan's Grant, Kanata Lakes, Katimavik, Marchwood Lakeside, Saddlebrook Estates, and Village Green