Blossom Park
| Blossom Park | |
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| Neighbourhood | |
 Blossom Park
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| Coordinates: 45°20′39″N 75°38′15″W / 45.3442745°N 75.63752°WCoordinates: 45°20′39″N 75°38′15″W / 45.3442745°N 75.63752°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| City | Ottawa |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jim Watson |
| • MP | David McGuinty |
| • MPP | John Fraser |
| • Councillors | Diane Deans |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6.19 km2 (2.39 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 90 m (300 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 14,060 |
| • Density | 2,271.4/km2 (5,883/sq mi) |
| Canada 2011 Census | |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
| Forward sortation area | K1T |
Blossom Park is a neighbourhood in Gloucester-Southgate Ward in the south-end of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Before the 2001 city of Ottawa amalgamation it was a suburb of the city of Gloucester. The current limits of the neighbourhood are: Hunt Club Road to the north, Airport Parkway to the west, Conroy Road to the east and the Greenbelt to the south (near Lester Road).
According to the Canada 2011 Census, the population of the neighbourhood was 14,060.
The area was cleared and farmed by settlers who began to arrive in the early decades of the 19th Century. Early settlers included Charles Kinmond, a native of Perthshire, Scotland, James Spratt, Leonard Wood (1805–1888) and his wife Martha (1821–1905) and John Halpenny (1818–1873) who hailed from Wicklow, Ireland. Their farms were accessed by the Metcalfe Road, later known as Highway 31 (now Bank Street) which became a major regional thoroughfare by the middle of the century.
The first known reference to "Blossom Park" appeared in a subdivision plan which was drafted by the Bytown Suburb and Land Company for the north half of Lot 9, in the 4th Concession, Rideau Front of the Township of Gloucester which was approved by the township council on November 6, 1911 and subsequently filed at the Carleton County land registry office in Ottawa. A street grid was established but little development took place and the area remained essentially rural through the first half of the 20th Century. It was transformed into a suburban community with the construction of bungalows on 150 x 100 foot lots along Central Boulevard (now Kingsdale Avenue) and Rosebella Avenue and on the north side of Lawrence Avenue (now Queensdale) between Albion and Conroy Roads in the 1950s. Lots on the south side of Queensdale between the future site of the Sawmill Creek Housing Co-op (built 1983-84) and Conroy were sold piecemeal for residential development beginning in 1960.
Lots fronting on the east side of Highway 31 were severed by farmer John W. Goth (1878-1959) and sold piecemeal for residential development beginning in 1947.
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