A sign at the eastern entrance to Kanata of three-meter letters illuminated at night
Kanata was a city in Ontario in Canada until it was annexed to Ottawa in 2001 . Before the unification, the population of Kanata was 59,700 people, according to rough estimates, in 2005 72,000 people live in Kanata.
Kanata is located 22 kilometers from Ottawa's business center via 417. Kanata has an area of 139 square kilometers.
Notable buildings and facilities
- The Corel Center and the main arena of the Ottawa Senators National Hockey League team at 1000 Palladium Drive.
- Rope Holiday Complex , 100 Walter Baker Place. Two ice rinks and a slide for sledding.
- The Kanata Leisure Center and Wave Pool , 70 Aird Place. Indoor pool with artificial wave simulation.
- The Kanata Centrum; Together with the adjacent buildings, the third largest shopping center in Ottawa.
- AMC Kanata 24 Theaters, the largest movie theater in Ottawa with 24 cinema halls. The Cinema itself is located in Kanata Centrum.
Industry
Rope is home to a host of high-tech enterprises such as Nortel , Alcatel , Cisco Systems , Hewlett-Packard , March Networks , Ubiquity Software , QNX Software Systems , BlackBerry and Mitel .