Barhaven

The borders of Barrhaven are roughly defined as follows: north - Green belt , east - Rideau river, west - 416 motorway, south - new Half Moon Bay building along Cambrian Rd south of the Jock River. The area is diagonally divided into two approximately equal parts by CN railways. Barrhaven is surrounded by rural areas and farmland, with the exception of the growing Riverside South quarter across the Rideau River. Directly south of Barhaven is the suburban town of Manotik .

The lands where Barrhaven was now, for a long time inhabited the first nations - Algonquins. In the 19th century, this territory was inhabited by farmers.

The old Barrhaven School was built in 1906. In 1911, Canada’s Northern Railroad laid a railway line from Ottawa to Toronto through the area, with the Fallowfield junction station (now closed at the intersection of Strandherd Dr and Cedarview Rd Streets). ^[2] After a long interruption, passenger rail services were resumed in autumn 2002 through the new Fallowfield station, located at the intersection of Fallowfield Road and Woodroffe Avenue.

Modern Barrhaven began to develop in the 1960s as a group of new suburbs built outside the Ottawa Green Belt. The construction was started by Mel Barr, in whose honor one of the quarters is named. Barr originally bought a 200-acre (0.81 km²) farm with the intention of building a hippodrome. However, further to the east was the Rideau Carleton Raceway, so ultimately, instead, Barr decided to use his land for residential development. In 1968-69 The first school in the area was built.

Barrhaven subsequently quickly grew into a suburb with a population of several tens of thousands of people. At the same time, commercial infrastructure grew much slower than the pace of housing development. In 1990, the district was served by one grocery store; it did not have a cinema or even a bar. The situation changed with the opening in 1991 of an extensive complex of large Barrhaven Town Center stores and small commercial establishments, as well as several small shopping centers. In the 1990s, several high-tech companies (such as JDS Uniphase and Nortel ) also moved to the area. In 1998, the first high school was opened in this district - named after Mother Teresa (Catholic), in 1999 - John McCray High School (public), in 2002, St. Joseph High School (Catholic). In September 2009, the Longfields-Davidson Heights (State) High School opened. In 2011, the École Pierre-Savard Catholic School opened.

Since Barrhaven was built up in a fairly short time, it looks pretty monotonous, given its huge size by Ottawa standards. The vast majority of houses are private. In the older parts of Barrhaven, the streets are curved and do not form a grid, as in the old parts of Ottawa.

In the 2010s Several humorous videos appeared on Youtube (Come to my party in Barrhaven - now unavailable, its sequels ^[3] and parodies ^{[4] [5]} ), where the “too distant” position of Barrhaven from the center was played out, which created a lot of insurmountable obstacles to the invitation friends at a party in the area.

• Melanie O'Brien. “Thriving beyond the greenbelt: Barrhaven growing rapidly as buyers look for a sense of community.” The Ottawa Citizen . Jun 29, 1996. p. J.1
• Janet Collins. "The Far Haven: Barrhaven" The Ottawa Citizen. Feb 1, 1993. p. B.3
• Carrie Buchanan. "A sleeping suburb; Barrhaven's nothing but a bedroom community. ” The Ottawa Citizen. Oct 29, 1989. p. D.1