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		<title>CONSTRUCTION NOTICE: Overnight road closure on Stittsville Main, June 7-16</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>La version française suit  A heads up that Stittsville Main Street will be closed between Orville Street and Abbott Street overnight from Sunday, June 7 until Tuesday, June 16 from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. overnight on Sundays and Mondays, and  from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. during the rest of the week. A noise [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/construction-notice-overnight-road-closure-on-stittsville-main-june-7-16/">CONSTRUCTION NOTICE: Overnight road closure on Stittsville Main, June 7-16</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>La version française suit </em></p>
<p>A heads up that Stittsville Main Street will be closed between Orville Street and Abbott Street overnight from Sunday, June 7 until Tuesday, June 16 from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. overnight on Sundays and Mondays, and  from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. during the rest of the week. A noise by-law exemption has also been issued for this work. (The road will be open at all other times on weekdays and weekends.)</p>
<p>The work is required to complete water and sewer connections for the development at 1518 Stittsville Main Street. The City is allowing the overnight closure to avoid disruptions during the day on weekdays and weekends.</p>
<p>Access will be maintained for pedestrians and all local businesses can continue to operate. This will be a disruption so residents are encouraged to plan ahead and use an alternate route.</p>
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<h2>Fermetures nocturnes de la rue Stittsville Main</h2>
<p>À noter que la rue Stittsville Main sera fermée entre la rue Orville et la rue Abbott pendant la nuit, du dimanche 7 juin au mardi 16 juin, de 20 h à 6 h les dimanches et lundis, et de 22 h à 6 h le reste de la semaine. Une exemption au Règlement sur le bruit a également été accordée pour ces travaux. (La route sera ouverte à tous les autres moments les jours de semaine et les fins de semaine.)</p>
<p>Les travaux sont nécessaires pour effectuer les branchements d’eau et d’égouts pour le projet d’aménagement au 1518, rue Stittsville Main. La Ville autorise la fermeture nocturne afin d’éviter les perturbations pendant la journée les jours de semaine et les fins de semaine.</p>
<p>L’accès sera maintenu pour les piétons et tous les commerces locaux pourront continuer leurs activités. Ces travaux causeront des perturbations; on encourage donc les gens à planifier leurs déplacements et à emprunter un autre itinéraire.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/construction-notice-overnight-road-closure-on-stittsville-main-june-7-16/">CONSTRUCTION NOTICE: Overnight road closure on Stittsville Main, June 7-16</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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		<title>UPDATE: Stittsville Main Street Public Realm plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 20:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>La version française suit   Over the past few years we&#8217;ve made some big strides forward to advance improvements on Stittsville Main Street. In 2020 we published a discussion paper called Revitalizing Stittsville Main Street . Hundreds of residents, businesses, and community groups provided comments through workshops, surveys, and email, summarized in this “What we heard” [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/update-stittsville-main-street-public-realm-plan/">UPDATE: Stittsville Main Street Public Realm plan</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>La version française suit  </em></p>
<p>Over the past few years we&#8217;ve made some big strides forward to advance improvements on Stittsville Main Street. In 2020 we published a discussion paper called <a href="http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/revitalizing-stittsville-main-street-discussion-paper-january-2020.pdf"><em>Revitalizing Stittsville Main Street</em> </a>. Hundreds of residents, businesses, and community groups provided comments through workshops, surveys, and email, summarized in this <a href="http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/stittsville-main-street-what-we-heard-oct-2020-final-b.pdf">“What we heard” report</a>.</p>
<p>That led to the development of the <em><a href="https://glengower.ca/information/stittsville-main-street-public-realm-plan-heads-to-committee-for-approval/">Stittsville Main Street Public Realm Plan</a>,</em> approved by City Council in 2022. It&#8217;s a reconstruction of the street to modern standards, and the first major upgrade since the early 1990s. Highlights from the plan include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Wider sidewalks</li>
<li>Bike lanes (cycletracks) on both sides of the street</li>
<li>Raised and protected intersections</li>
<li>Street tree planting and greening</li>
<li>Crossing improvements at the Trans Canada Trail and Poole Creek</li>
<li>Street furnishings, gateway, and placemaking opportunities</li>
<li>Improved bus stops with space for shelters</li>
<li>Renewed street and pedestrian-level lighting</li>
</ul>
<p>The Stittsville Main Street upgrades were included in the new <a href="https://glengower.ca/development/deep-dive-recommended-transportation-projects-for-stittsville/">Transportation Master Plan</a>, approved by City Council in July 2025. That means the project will be prioritized for funding and construction in the next few years. Total cost of the project in 2022 was estimated at just under $23-million.</p>
<p>In the meantime, we&#8217;re continuing to work with residents, businesses, landowners, and community groups to revitalize the street through new development and beautification efforts such as the flower pot pilot program, new street furnishing, public art, and more.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/8-Document-1-Stittsville-Main-Street-Public-Realm-Plan-horizontal.jpg">See a map of the Stittsville Public Realm Plan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/8-Document-1-Stittsville-Main-Street-Public-Realm-Plan-.pdf">Also available as a PDF</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Timeline</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>2020:</strong> Councillor Glen <a href="http://glengower.ca/community/stittsville-main-discussion/">publishes <em>Revitalizing Stittsville Main Street</em></a> discussion paper, followed by an online survey, workshops, and community engagement. The feedback was summarized in a <a href="http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/stittsville-main-street-what-we-heard-oct-2020-final-b.pdf">“What we heard” report.</a></li>
<li><strong>2021:</strong> <a href="http://glengower.ca/community/call-for-interest-stittsville-main-street-steering-committee/">Call for interest and formation of a Stittsville Main Steering Committee</a> to discuss ideas and serve as a sounding board to refine concepts.</li>
<li><strong>2021:</strong> City initiates work to develop Stittsville Main Street Public Realm Plan</li>
<li><strong>2022:</strong> Final <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/stittsville-main-street-public-realm-plan-heads-to-committee-for-approval/">Stittsville Main Street Public Realm Plan</a> approved by City Council</li>
<li><strong>2022:</strong> Installation of new heritage street lights</li>
<li><strong>2025</strong>: Launch of hanging basket flower pots pilot</li>
<li><strong>2025:</strong> Council approves the new <a href="https://glengower.ca/development/deep-dive-recommended-transportation-projects-for-stittsville/">Transportation Master Plan, </a>including the upgrades to Stittsville Main Street</li>
<li><strong>Next: </strong>Funding, detailed design, and construction</li>
</ul>
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<h2>MISE À JOUR : Plan du domaine public de la rue Stittsville Main</h2>
<p>Au cours des dernières années, nous avons réalisé d’importantes avancées dans les travaux d’amélioration de la rue Stittsville Main. En 2020, nous avons publié un document de travail intitulé <a href="https://www.glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/la-revitalization-de-la-rue-stittsville-main-document-de-travail-janvier-2020.pdf"><em>La revitalisation de la rue Stittsville Main</em></a>. Des centaines de résidents, de commerçants et de groupes communautaires ont fait part de leurs commentaires lors d’ateliers, dans des sondages et par courriel, qui ont été résumés dans ce <a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/stittsville-main-street-what-we-heard-oct-2020-final-b.pdf">rapport « Ce que nous avons entendu »</a> (en anglais seulement).</p>
<p>Ces travaux ont donné lieu à l’élaboration du <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/stittsville-main-street-public-realm-plan-heads-to-committee-for-approval/"><em>Plan du domaine public de la rue Stittsville Main</em></a><em>,</em> approuvé par le Conseil municipal en 2022. Il est question du réaménagement de la rue selon les normes actuelles, la première amélioration majeure depuis le début des années 1990. Voici les grandes lignes du plan :</p>
<ul>
<li>Élargissement des trottoirs;</li>
<li>Pistes cyclables des deux côtés de la rue;</li>
<li>Aménagement d’intersections surélevées et protégées;</li>
<li>Plantation d’arbres et aménagement d’espaces verts le long de la rue;</li>
<li>Amélioration des passages aux intersections du Sentier transcanadien et du sentier du ruisseau Poole;</li>
<li>Mobilier urbain, passerelle et possibilités d’aménagement de l’espace;</li>
<li>Amélioration des arrêts d’autobus grâce à des abris;</li>
<li>Renouvellement de l’éclairage de rue et piétonnier.</li>
</ul>
<p>Les améliorations de la rue Stittsville Main ont été incluses dans le nouveau <a href="https://glengower.ca/development/deep-dive-recommended-transportation-projects-for-stittsville/">Plan directeur des transports</a> approuvé par le Conseil municipal en juillet 2025. Ainsi, ce projet sera traité en priorité pour le financement et l’exécution des travaux au cours des prochaines années. Le coût total du projet était estimé à un peu moins de 23 millions de dollars en 2022.</p>
<p>Entre-temps, nous continuons à collaborer avec les résidents, les commerçants, les propriétaires fonciers et les groupes communautaires afin de revitaliser la rue grâce à de nouveaux projets d’aménagement et à des initiatives d’embellissement, comme le programme pilote de paniers de fleurs, l’installation de nouveau mobilier urbain, des œuvres d’art public, et plus encore.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/8-Document-1-Stittsville-Main-Street-Public-Realm-Plan-horizontal.jpg">Voir la carte du Plan du domaine public de la rue Stittsville Main</a></li>
<li><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/8-Document-1-Stittsville-Main-Street-Public-Realm-Plan-.pdf">Également disponible en format PDF</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Chronologie</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>2020 : </strong>Le conseiller Glen Gower <a href="https://glengower.ca/community/stittsville-main-discussion/">publie le document de travail <em>La revitalisation de la rue Stittsville Main</em></a>, suivi d’un sondage en ligne, d’ateliers et d’une consultation communautaire. Les commentaires ont été résumés dans un <a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/stittsville-main-street-what-we-heard-oct-2020-final-b.pdf">rapport « Ce que nous avons entendu »</a>.</li>
<li><strong>2021 : </strong><a href="https://glengower.ca/community/call-for-interest-stittsville-main-street-steering-committee/">Appel à manifestation d’intérêt et formation d’un comité directeur de la rue Stittsville Main</a> pour discuter des idées et servir de groupe consultatif pour affiner les concepts.</li>
<li><strong>2021 : </strong>La Ville entreprend les travaux d’élaboration du Plan du domaine public de la rue Stittsville Main.</li>
<li><strong>2022 : </strong>Le Conseil municipal approuve la version définitive du <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/stittsville-main-street-public-realm-plan-heads-to-committee-for-approval/">Plan du domaine public de la rue Stittsville Main</a>.</li>
<li><strong>2022 : </strong>Installation de nouveaux lampadaires à caractère patrimonial.</li>
<li><strong>2025 :</strong> Lancement d’un programme pilote de paniers de fleurs suspendus.</li>
<li><strong>2025 : </strong>Le Conseil approuve le nouveau <a href="https://glengower.ca/development/deep-dive-recommended-transportation-projects-for-stittsville/">Plan directeur des transports</a>, y compris les améliorations proposées pour la rue Stittsville Main.</li>
<li><strong>À venir : </strong>Financement, conception détaillée et construction.</li>
</ul>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/update-stittsville-main-street-public-realm-plan/">UPDATE: Stittsville Main Street Public Realm plan</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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		<title>Proposed &#8220;speed cushions&#8221; near St. Stephen School and Sacred Heart High School</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>La version française suit Last fall, the Ontario Government banned the use of Automated Speed Enforcement (speed cameras) anywhere in the province, including school zones. As a replacement, they’ve created a new “Road Safety Initiatives Fund (RSIF)” with $210-million for municipalities to increase road safety in school zones and community safety zones where cameras were [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/proposed-speed-cushions-near-st-stephen-school-and-sacred-heart-high-school/">Proposed &#8220;speed cushions&#8221; near St. Stephen School and Sacred Heart High School</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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<p>Last fall, the Ontario Government <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/changes-coming-to-automated-speed-enforcement/">banned the use of Automated Speed Enforcement (speed cameras)</a> anywhere in the province, including school zones.</p>
<p>As a replacement, they’ve created a new <a href="https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006726/ontario-launching-road-safety-initiatives-fund">“Road Safety Initiatives Fund (RSIF)”</a> with $210-million for municipalities to increase road safety in school zones and community safety zones where cameras were previously located. Cities can apply to use this funding for things like speed bumps, raised crosswalks, roundabouts, and signage.</p>
<p>Ottawa has applied for funding to pay for safety infrastructure in several school zones across Ottawa.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>St. Stephen Catholic School</strong> <em>(Stittsville Main Street in Jackson Trails)<br />
</em>Four sets of speed cushions on Stittsville Main Street Horseshoe Crescent and Hazeldean Road – see map below. (Speed cushions are a type of speed bumps that slow down most vehicles but allow larger vehicles like fire trucks to pass through without slowing.)<br />
A PXO (pedestrian crosswalk) at Stittsville Main and Bandelier</li>
<li><strong>Sacred Heart High School</strong><em> (Abbott Street)</em><br />
Four sets of speed cushions on Abbott Street, between Amy Street and Carbery Drive – see map below. (Speed cushions are a type of speed bumps that slow down most vehicles but allow larger vehicles like fire trucks to pass through without slowing.)</li>
<li><strong>Holy Spirit School</strong> <em>(Stittsville Main Street)<br />
</em>Thermoplastic pavement markings, speed display boards in both directions, and flashing beacons in both directions.</li>
<li><b>École Paul-Desmarais</b> <b> </b>(Abbott Street)<br />
Thermoplastic pavement markings, speed display boards in both directions, and flashing beacons in both directions.</li>
<li><b>École Saint-Jean-Paul II  </b>(Abbott Street)<br />
Upgrade of the pedestrian crossing at Abbott &amp; Tall Tree to a raised crossing.</li>
</ul>
<p>These locations are approximate and may be adjusted slightly if impacts are identified during the detailed design stage. Other site-specific constraints identified during detailed design may also affect the feasibility of the proposed measures. Timing of installation depends on when the provincial government approves Ottawa’s request for funding.</p>
<p><strong>We&#8217;d love to hear from you on this.</strong> Please <a href="https://glengower.ca/contact/">contact our office</a> with your feedback and questions. We’ll summarize any feedback received and share it with the City’s traffic staff.</p>
<p><strong>Please note: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Schools that did not have a speed cameras are not eligible for RSIF funding. However, there are temporary traffic calming measures planned for other locations this year, including speed display boards along Cope Drive at Shingwàkons Public School, St. Bernadette Catholic School, and Maplewood Secondary School.</li>
</ul>
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<div id="attachment_21206" style="width: 2157px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E012-Abbott-St-RSIF-Conceptual-Plan-V2-scaled.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-21206" class="size-full wp-image-21206" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E012-Abbott-St-RSIF-Conceptual-Plan-V2-scaled.jpg" alt="Sacred Heart High School - Abbott Street traffic calming" width="2147" height="1080" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E012-Abbott-St-RSIF-Conceptual-Plan-V2-scaled.jpg 2147w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E012-Abbott-St-RSIF-Conceptual-Plan-V2-1280x644.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E012-Abbott-St-RSIF-Conceptual-Plan-V2-980x493.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E012-Abbott-St-RSIF-Conceptual-Plan-V2-480x242.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2147px, 100vw" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-21206" class="wp-caption-text">Abbott Street near Sacred Heart High School (click for larger size)</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_21207" style="width: 2570px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E021-Stittsville-Main-RSIF-Conceptual-V1-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-21207" class="size-full wp-image-21207" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E021-Stittsville-Main-RSIF-Conceptual-V1-scaled.jpg" alt="St. Stephen Catholic School - Stittsville Main Street traffic calming" width="2560" height="1288" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E021-Stittsville-Main-RSIF-Conceptual-V1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E021-Stittsville-Main-RSIF-Conceptual-V1-1280x644.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E021-Stittsville-Main-RSIF-Conceptual-V1-980x493.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E021-Stittsville-Main-RSIF-Conceptual-V1-480x242.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2560px, 100vw" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-21207" class="wp-caption-text">Stittsville Main Street near St. Stephen Catholic School (click for larger size)</p></div>
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<h2>Des « coussins berlinois » proposés près de l’école St. Stephen et de Sacred Heart High School</h2>
<p>L’automne dernier, le gouvernement de l’Ontario <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/changes-coming-to-automated-speed-enforcement/">a interdit l’utilisation du contrôle automatisé de la vitesse (radars photographiques)</a> partout dans la province, y compris dans les zones scolaires.</p>
<p>En remplacement, un nouveau <a href="https://news.ontario.ca/fr/release/1006726/lontario-lance-le-fonds-pour-les-initiatives-en-matiere-de-securite-routiere">« Fonds d’aide aux initiatives pour la sécurité routière »</a> a été créé, avec 210 millions de dollars destinés aux municipalités afin d’accroître la sécurité routière dans les zones scolaires et les zones de sécurité communautaire où des caméras étaient auparavant installées. Les villes peuvent demander à utiliser ce financement pour des infrastructures comme les dos d’âne, les passages piétons surélevés, les ronds-points et la signalisation.</p>
<p>Ottawa a demandé des fonds pour financer les infrastructures de sécurité dans plusieurs zones scolaires dans toute la ville.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>École catholique St. Stephen</strong><em> (rue Stittsville Main aux sentiers Jackson)<br />
</em>Quatre ensembles de coussins berlinois sur la rue Stittsville Main, le croissant Horseshoe et le chemin Hazeldean – voir la carte ci-dessous. (Les coussins berlinois sont un type de dos d’âne qui ralentissent la plupart des véhicules, mais permettent à des véhicules plus gros comme les camions de pompiers de passer sans ralentir.)<br />
Un passage pour piétons à l’angle de Stittsville Main et Bandelier</li>
<li><strong>Sacred Heart High School </strong><em>(rue Abbott)<br />
</em>Quatre ensembles de coussins berlinois sur la rue Abbott, entre la rue Amy et la promenade Carbery – voir la carte ci-dessous. (Les coussins berlinois sont un type de dos d’âne qui ralentissent la plupart des véhicules, mais permettent à des véhicules plus gros comme les camions de pompiers de passer sans ralentir.)</li>
<li><strong>École Holy Spirit</strong><em> (rue Stittsville Main)<br />
</em>Des marquages thermoplastiques pour la chaussée, des panneaux d’affichage de la vitesse dans les deux directions et des feux clignotants dans les deux directions.</li>
<li><strong>École Paul-Desmarais</strong> (rue Abbott)<br />
Des marquages thermoplastiques pour la chaussée, des panneaux d’affichage de la vitesse dans les deux directions, et des feux clignotants dans les deux directions.</li>
<li><strong>École Saint-Jean-Paul II </strong>(rue Abbott)<br />
Mise à niveau du passage pour piétons à l’angle de la rue Abbott et de la rue Tall Tree en un passage surélevé.</li>
</ul>
<p>Ces emplacements ne sont pas définitifs : ils peuvent être légèrement ajustés si l’on constate des répercussions négatives lors des études détaillées. D’autres contraintes propres au site, repérées lors de l’étude détaillée, peuvent également avoir une incidence sur la faisabilité des mesures proposées. Le calendrier de l’installation dépendra du moment où le gouvernement provincial approuvera la demande de financement d’Ottawa.</p>
<p><strong>Nous apprécierions d’avoir de vos nouvelles à ce sujet.</strong> Veuillez <a href="https://glengower.ca/contact/">communiquer avec notre bureau</a> pour faire part de votre rétroaction et de vos questions. Nous résumerons toute la rétroaction reçue et la transmettrons au personnel de la circulation de la Ville.</p>
<p><strong>Veuillez noter :</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Les écoles qui n’avaient pas de radars photographiques ne sont pas admissibles au financement du Fonds d’aide aux initiatives pour la sécurité routière. Cependant, des mesures temporaires de modération de la circulation sont prévues pour d’autres emplacements cette année, notamment des panneaux d’affichage de la vitesse le long de la promenade Cope à l’école publique Shingwàkons, à l’école catholique Sainte-Bernadette et à l’école secondaire Maplewood.</li>
</ul>
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<div id="attachment_21206" style="width: 2157px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E012-Abbott-St-RSIF-Conceptual-Plan-V2-scaled.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-21206" class="size-full wp-image-21206" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E012-Abbott-St-RSIF-Conceptual-Plan-V2-scaled.jpg" alt="Sacred Heart High School - Abbott Street traffic calming" width="2147" height="1080" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E012-Abbott-St-RSIF-Conceptual-Plan-V2-scaled.jpg 2147w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E012-Abbott-St-RSIF-Conceptual-Plan-V2-1280x644.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E012-Abbott-St-RSIF-Conceptual-Plan-V2-980x493.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E012-Abbott-St-RSIF-Conceptual-Plan-V2-480x242.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2147px, 100vw" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-21206" class="wp-caption-text">Rue Abbott près de la Sacred Heart High School (cliquez pour agrandir)</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_21207" style="width: 2157px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E021-Stittsville-Main-RSIF-Conceptual-V1-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-21207" class="size-full wp-image-21207" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E021-Stittsville-Main-RSIF-Conceptual-V1-scaled.jpg" alt="St. Stephen Catholic School - Stittsville Main Street traffic calming" width="2147" height="1080" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E021-Stittsville-Main-RSIF-Conceptual-V1-scaled.jpg 2147w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E021-Stittsville-Main-RSIF-Conceptual-V1-1280x644.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E021-Stittsville-Main-RSIF-Conceptual-V1-980x493.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/E021-Stittsville-Main-RSIF-Conceptual-V1-480x242.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2147px, 100vw" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-21207" class="wp-caption-text">Rue Stittsville Main près de l’école catholique St. Stephen (cliquez pour agrandir)</p></div>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/proposed-speed-cushions-near-st-stephen-school-and-sacred-heart-high-school/">Proposed &#8220;speed cushions&#8221; near St. Stephen School and Sacred Heart High School</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>La version française suit  About 40 people joined us on Saturday for the annual Jane’s Walk on Stittsville Main Street. It was part of the Ottawa Jane’s Walk Festival with dozens of free walking tours happening all over Ottawa (and many more happening around the world). This year’s walk focused on the history, present state, [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/notebook/photos-janes-walk-on-stittsville-main-street-2026/">NOTEBOOK: Taking stock of Stittsville Main Street</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>La version française suit </em></p>
<p>About 40 people joined us on Saturday for the annual Jane’s Walk on Stittsville Main Street. It was part of the <a href="https://www.janeswalkottawa.ca/">Ottawa Jane’s Walk Festival</a> with dozens of free walking tours happening all over Ottawa (and many more happening around the world).</p>
<p>This year’s walk focused on the history, present state, and future of the street, and how it has transformed from “string town” to suburb. I’ve been leading this walk since 2016, and over ten years I’ve seen a lot of change on the street: Several new buildings, a lot of new businesses, new LED streetlamps, a new public square.</p>
<p>After ten years, it’s a good opportunity to take stock of where we’ve been, and where we may be going.</p>
<p><em>Photos by Mandy Hambly, Marlova Martin, and Laura Mueller.</em></p>
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<h3>Stittsville&#8217;s origin story</h3>
<p>Indigenous people have lived in our area for millennia. There’s no direct evidence that they settled or travelled on what’s now Stittsville Main Street*, but their presence in the area is well-established. In 2006, during the construction of Holy Spirit Parish 1,200 metres away at Shea and Abbott, <a href="https://ottawacornwall.ca/news/a-celebration-of-the-land-in-stittsville-at-holy-spirit-church/">archeologists discovered over 800 artifacts dating back 9,000 years</a>.</p>
<p><em>(*I have no idea when the street was first referred to as “Main Street”. It started being known as “Stittsville Main Street” sometime around the municipal amalgamation in 2000. Throughout this article I’ve used modern street names for clarity, although several streets have had different names over the years.)</em></p>
<p>The first settler surveys in this area were done around 1817 when it was largely swamp and forest. The road that would become “Stittsville Main Street” left the military settlement of Richmond and forged northward, staying fairly straight save for a few curves to avoid low, swampy areas. The road would intersect with another road (now Hazeldean Road) that crossed the northern end of <a href="https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/searchmapframes.php">Goulbourn Township</a> from east to west, between the 11<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup> concessions.</p>
<p>From that crossroads, you could have headed south to Richmond, north to Carp, east to Hazeldean and Bells Corners, or west to Carleton Place. Up sprang a small settlement at around 1820 around the triangle bounded today by Stittsville Main Street, Hazeldean Road, and Carp Road.  By the 1840s this settlement was known as “Stitts Corners”. Jackson Stitt became the settlement’s first postmaster in 1854.</p>
<h3>The Great Fire blazes a new course</h3>
<p>The <a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/150-years-ago-on-august-17-old-stittsville-was-swept-up-in-the-great-fire-of-carleton-county/">Great Fire of August 1870</a> would change everything. On a windy day in the middle of a hot, dry summer, workers clearing the brush between Almonte and Pakenham for a new railway sparked a fire that devastated much of Carleton County. Almost everything in Stittsville was destroyed, save for a few stone buildings including two that still stand today: <a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/susannah-kemp-a-pioneer-of-historic-significance-to-stittsville/">Kemp’s Tavern</a> (now Cabotto’s on Hazeldean Road) and the <a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/the-home-of-patrick-and-mary-hartin-on-maple-grove/">little stone cottage</a> on Maple Grove Road in Fairwinds.</p>
<p>The railway eventually was completed, following what’s now the Trans Canada Trail, along with a train station in Stittsville just east of the main road – now the site of Village Square Park. The centre of Stittsville shifted from the old “Stitts Corners” towards the train station, and a number of shops, hotels, and local businesses sprang up in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century and early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries.</p>
<h3>A “string town”</h3>
<p>It’s hard to imagine from today’s perspective, but for most of Stittsville’s history the main street was not only the main road, but also one of the *only* roads in the community. The community was referred to as a “string town”, meaning that most of its buildings and institutions were along one very long street, with very few cross-streets or secondary roads.</p>
<p>The first subdivision was created in 1901 with several homes back-to-back on Abbott Street and Manchester Street, west of Main Street. Additional subdivisions didn’t come until after the Second World War.</p>
<p>That linear layout makes the street quite different than other “traditional main streets” in our area. It lacks the grid-like structure and intersections of the Glebe or Westboro, and it’s way less compact than old main streets in Carleton Place or Almonte. It remained very much rural in character until well into the 20<sup>th</sup> century.</p>
<h3>Post-war ambition</h3>
<p>The people who lived in Stittsville immediately following WWII were an ambitious bunch. In the late 1940s they opened a new elementary school (Stittsville Public School, now <a href="https://frederickbantingalt.ocdsb.ca/">Frederick Banting Secondary Alternative School</a> and home to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=61567020748076">Home Bosses Youth Centre</a>). It was a model of a modern elementary school and school board officials from across the province came to visit. At about the same time the community established a Board of Trade, and an Urban Development Area – a first stab at a master plan and zoning for the village.</p>
<p>In 1956 Stittsville became a “Police Village”, which gave decision-making and budget powers to local elected officials, within the broader Goulbourn Township. By the early 1960s, Stittsville was recognized formally as a “village”.</p>
<p>This period also marked the start of suburban growth and car commuting, with Stittsville a convenient distance from jobs in Ottawa. The first post-war subdivisions were established in the older parts of Stittsville on large lots, due to the need for wells and septic. Streets like Pretty and Ralphpark, Henry Goulbourn and Norway Spruce, Coach and Conductor, Brigade and Bell Park, just to name a few.</p>
<p>Through the 60s and 70s Stittsville welcomed new churches, a community centre and arena (<a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/photo-essay-johnny-leroux-arena-turns-45-years-old/">Johnny Leroux Arena</a>), a post office, a fire hall, a library, all along (or very close to) Stittsville Main Street. Goulbourn Non-Profit Housing built a two-storey affordable apartment building on Carleton Cathcart.</p>
<p>In the late 1970s, the town council decided to connect the village to municipal water and sewage. That, combined with construction of the Queensway to the west end in the 1980s, would eventually shift Stittsville’s focus away from Main Street towards the close of the century.</p>
<h3>End of the railway</h3>
<p>The <a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/museum-display-marks-25-years-since-stittsvilles-last-via-train/">last VIA Rail train travelled through Stittsville in January 1990</a>, making the end of nearly 120 years of rail. Soon the tracks would be torn up, the rail buildings demolished, and the crossing arms removed from Main Street.</p>
<p>In 1991, work began to upgrade Main Street. The $8-million project was funded by the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton and Goulbourn Township, and included burying hydro lines, building sidewalks on both sides of the street, and boulevards, trees, and street lamps.</p>
<p>In 1996 the site of the old train station was redeveloped as Village Square Park, including the <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/update-work-starts-soon-on-the-village-square-park-playground-renewal/">first version of the railway-themed play structure</a>. (The second generation of the play structure <a href="https://glengower.ca/community/photos-official-opening-of-the-new-play-structure-at-village-square-park/">opened in 2024</a>.) The old rail lines were removed and the Trans Canada Trail was established by 2000, connecting from Bells Corners to Carleton Place.</p>
<p>There’s an old painting by Ben Babelowsky at City Hall capturing Stittsville as it looked around 1999-2000. Looking northward from about where the pedestrian crosswalk is now, it depicts a colourful collection of small two-storey buildings, a mix of shops and restaurants, and a local police station.</p>
<p>The painting is one of a collection of depictions of cities and townships before they were amalgamated into the City of Ottawa in 2000.</p>
<h3>A planning crisis and the Community Design Plan</h3>
<p>With amalgamation, “Main Street” became “Stittsville Main Street” to differentiate it from all the other ones across Ottawa. Amalgamation also coincided with the start of an economic decline on the street, despite continuing residential growth overall in the community.</p>
<p>I think there were a few factors at play here: Stittsville’s residential development was shifting north, west, and south. Newer retail pads built in the 1990s and 2000s on the north end of Stittsville Main and along Hazeldean Road shifted the retail centre of the community northward. A few of the older buildings burned down.</p>
<p>Around 2010, a proposed mixed-use apartment building and townhomes next to the Stittsville Legion sparked an uproar. At five storeys, it would have been the tallest building on the street in one of the narrowest sections. After a few twists and turns, the <a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/reverie-revived-stalled-condo-project-could-continue-later-this-year/">townhomes were built</a>, the apartment building was not, and part of the lot remains for sale today.</p>
<p>But that development would still have a major impact. Responding to community interest, former councillor Shad Qadri launched a “Community Design Plan” process for Stittsville Main Street. <a href="https://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/default/files/documents/stittsville_main_cdp_en.pdf">Approved in 2015</a>, it provided a blueprint for future development on the street from Hazeldean Road to Bobcat Way. The vision was for a vibrant neighbourhood with more homes, businesses and services in old and new buildings. It included a four-storey height limit; a preference for mixed use <em>(retail on the bottom, apartments on top);</em> and highlighting opportunities for community enhancements <em>(public art at the corner of Carleton Cathcart; a public square at the trail south of Abbott; acquiring Frederick Banting school for city recreational use should it ever go up for sale).</em></p>
<h3>Revitalization begins</h3>
<p>The plan estimated that Stittsville Main had the capacity for about 2,200 housing units between 2015-2031. More than a decade on, we’re nowhere near the target, but there have been several developments:</p>
<ul>
<li>The Switzer (1531 Stittsville Main) – 43 apartments, opened 2022</li>
<li>The Landing (1370 Stittsville Main) – 71 apartments, opened 2025</li>
<li>The Station (1518 Stittsville Main) – 27 apartments, under construction</li>
<li>1412 Stittsville Main – 18 apartments, under construction</li>
</ul>
<p>All of these were permitted “as of right” under the Community Design Plan and required no rezoning. Each of them (except for 1412 Stittsville Main) includes retail on the ground floor and apartments above. Together, that’s just over 150 apartments.</p>
<p><em>(We could also include the 37 Wildpine apartment development just off of Stittsville Main, with 93 apartments. It’s still going through the approval process.)</em></p>
<p>Besides housing, there’s been a large crop of new businesses opening up on the street. Most of them are independently owned and operated, taking advantage of cheaper rents in older buildings. The street has become an incubator for a score of women-owned and diversity-owned businesses. Restaurants, retail shops, and more. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs">Jane Jacobs</a> would approve.</p>
<p>Even the <a href="https://glengower.ca/community/celebrating-the-new-stittsville-muslim-association-sign/">Stittsville Muslim Association has moved in</a>, adapting the old Bradley’s Insurance building at 1469 Stittsville Main Street for a temporary mosque and school while they search for a larger property elsewhere in Stittsville.</p>
<p>In the first few years of my Jane’s Walk, we would stop on the porch of the old Green’s Hotel / Butler’s Hotel at the corner of Stittsville Main and Abbott. At the time, it was home to Hudson’s Insurance and I would talk about how great it would be to have a coffee shop or a brew pub open up. Today, it’s home to Ritual Café owned by Chinelo Houron – a popular stop for cyclists and walkers along the Trans Canada Trail.</p>
<p>Instead of stopping at the porch of the building, now we gather at Bradley’s Square. <a href="https://glengower.ca/development/update-final-plan-for-the-stittsville-main-trailhead-project/">Completed in 2019 with main street stimulus funding</a> from the provincial government, it was one of the projects identified in the 2015 community design plan, and <a href="https://glengower.ca/community/official-naming-ceremony-for-bradley-square/">renamed for the Bradley family’s historic contributions to Stittsville</a> in 2022.</p>
<h3>Looking down the road</h3>
<p>Stittsville ward has about 55,000 people today, and will grow by another 25,000 in the coming decades. As far as Ottawa’s suburbs go, our main street is unique: the character, the mix of old and new, and the growing ranks of eclectic businesses.</p>
<p>One of the big challenges is transportation. Stittsville Main is somewhere between a road and a street: a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad">“stroad”</a>.  It’s a road, in the sense that it’s an artery for vehicles heading north and south in the community. It’s a street, in the sense that it is lined with small shops and quite walkable.</p>
<p>In the future it will have to shift more towards a street, because neighbourhood-scale retail thrives on streets and struggles on roads.  New roads like Robert Grant Avenue will deflect north-south traffic away from Stittsville Main. And the <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/stittsville-main-street-public-realm-plan-heads-to-committee-for-approval/">2022 Public Realm Plan</a> and subsequent <a href="https://glengower.ca/notebook/notebook-map-of-future-transportation-projects-in-stittsville/">2025 Transportation Master Plan</a> call for new sidewalks and pathways on both sides of the street – making it safer and more convenient for pedestrians and cyclists and connecting to the Trans Canada Trail. OC Transpo route 163 launched in 2025 and Route 61 service will become more frequent soon.</p>
<p>In the next few years Stittsville Main will be extended northward, connecting through Jackson Trails and Connections to Palladium Drive and then the Queensway. The old road to Carp will soon become a road to Kanata and beyond.</p>
<p>There will be new apartment buildings, both on the street and nearby. Thanks to the rural origins of the street, most lots are large and deep, making them ideal for housing and retail. The old firehall at Carleton Cathcart is due for a major rebuild, where the City will create a permanent home for the Stittsville Food Bank, likely along with affordable housing and community meeting rooms.</p>
<p>Meanwhile close to Hazeldean Road, new provincial policy has superseded the 4-storey limit established in the 2015 Stittsville Main Street Secondary Plan. Provincial rules mean that <a href="https://glengower.ca/development/update-provincial-rule-changes-and-their-impact-on-stittsville-main-street/">maximum heights are now 10-18 storeys</a> between Hobin and Hazeldean. So if the strip malls or school board land ever gets redeveloped, we’re likely to see some taller mixed-use buildings.</p>
<h3>Change is constant</h3>
<p>I can’t remember where I heard or read it, but a smart urban planner observed that while land uses change over time, and buildings may come and go, the roads will always be there.</p>
<p>Walking up and down the road, you can see evidence of every part of Stittsville&#8217;s history. Architecture from many decades, and clues about the rural and railway history of the village. I wonder if the original surveyors and settlers of Goulbourn Township had any concept that the road they plotted north from Richmond Road to Concession Line XI would eventually become the backbone of a growing 21<sup>st</sup> century suburb in the Nation’s Capital?</p>
<p>Ten years ago when I started the Jane’s Walk, Stittsville Main was at the very start of its modern revitalization. We’re still in the very early stages, it’s far from perfect, and there are some growing pains. But in new buildings like the <a href="https://glengower.ca/tag/1531-stittsville-main/">Switzer</a> or <a href="https://glengower.ca/tag/1518-stittsville-main/">The Station</a>, you can see a glimpse of where the street is going, and what it might become over the next 25 years.</p>
<p>I’ll see you around the neighbourhood.</p>
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<p><strong>Sources consulted for this article include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><em><a href="https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C195669">Stittsville: A Sense of Place</a></em> by Barbara Bottriell</li>
<li><a href="https://goulbournhistoricalsociety.org/">Goulbourn Township Historical Society</a></li>
<li><a href="https://goulbournmuseum.ca/">Goulbourn Museum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/category/heritage/">StittsvilleCentral.ca</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00003.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20976" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00003.jpg" alt="Jane's Walk 2026 on Stittsville Main Street" width="1800" height="2400" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00003.jpg 1800w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00003-1280x1707.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00003-980x1307.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00003-480x640.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1800px, 100vw" /></a> <a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00011.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20975" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00011.jpg" alt="Jane's Walk 2026 on Stittsville Main Street" width="1800" height="2400" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00011.jpg 1800w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00011-1280x1707.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00011-980x1307.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00011-480x640.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1800px, 100vw" /></a> <a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00013.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20974" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00013.jpg" alt="Jane's Walk 2026 on Stittsville Main Street" width="2400" height="1800" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00013.jpg 2400w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00013-1280x960.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00013-980x735.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00013-480x360.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2400px, 100vw" /></a> <a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00014.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20973" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00014.jpg" alt="" width="1800" height="2400" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00014.jpg 1800w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00014-1280x1707.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00014-980x1307.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Marlova-photos-00014-480x640.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1800px, 100vw" /></a> <a 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Main Street" width="1080" height="608" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Laura-Mueller-photos-00002.jpg 1080w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Laura-Mueller-photos-00002-980x552.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Laura-Mueller-photos-00002-480x270.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1080px, 100vw" /></a> <a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00019.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20969" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00019.jpg" alt="Jane's Walk 2026 on Stittsville Main Street" width="2048" height="1536" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00019.jpg 2048w, 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<h2>CARNET DE NOTES : Portrait de la rue Stittsville Main</h2>
<p>Ce samedi, une quarantaine de personnes se sont jointes à nous pour <em>La promenade de Jane</em> sur la rue Stittsville Main. Cet événement annuel s’inscrivait dans le programme ottavien du <a href="https://www.janeswalkottawa.ca/fr">festival <em>La promenade de Jane</em></a>, organisé dans plusieurs villes du monde, qui proposait des dizaines de visites guidées gratuites aux quatre coins de la ville.</p>
<p>L’édition de cette année portait sur l’histoire, l’état actuel et l’avenir de cette rue qui est passée de cité linéaire à coin de banlieue. Je mène cette marche depuis 2016. En plus de dix ans, j’ai pu observer beaucoup de changements sur la rue, dont la construction de plusieurs bâtiments, l’ouverture de nombreux commerces, l’installation de lampadaires à DEL et l’aménagement d’une nouvelle place publique.</p>
<p>Le moment est bien choisi pour réfléchir au chemin parcouru et à la direction que nous pourrions prendre.</p>
<p><em>Photos : Mandy Hambly, Marlova Martin et Laura Mueller</em></p>
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<h3>Les origines de Stittsville</h3>
<p>Notre région est habitée par des peuples autochtones depuis des millénaires. Rien ne permet d’affirmer avec certitude qu’ils se soient établis ou qu’ils aient circulé précisément sur ce qui est aujourd’hui la rue Stittsville Main<sup>1</sup>, mais leur présence dans le secteur est connue. Lors des travaux de construction de l’église Holy Spirit menés en 2006 à l’angle du chemin Shea et de la rue Abbott, <a href="https://ottawacornwall.ca/news/a-celebration-of-the-land-in-stittsville-at-holy-spirit-church/">des archéologues ont découvert plus de 800 artefacts datant de 9 000 ans</a>* à 1 200 mètres de la rue.</p>
<p><em>(<sup>1 </sup>J’ignore quand cette rue a commencé à s’appeler « Main », mais nous savons que l’appellation « rue Stittsville Main » s’est imposée vers la fusion municipale, en 2000. Dans mon billet, j’utilise les noms actuels par souci de clarté, même si, au fil des ans, plusieurs des rues mentionnées ont porté d’autres noms.)</em></p>
<p>Les premiers relevés d’arpentage réalisés par les colons dans ce secteur remontent à environ 1817. À l’époque, le territoire était essentiellement couvert de marécages et de boisés. Le chemin qui allait devenir la rue Stittsville Main montait vers le nord à partir de l’établissement militaire de Richmond, dans une ligne relativement droite ponctuée de quelques courbes contournant des zones basses et marécageuses. Il croisait une autre route – aujourd’hui le chemin Hazeldean – qui traversait l’extrémité nord du <a href="https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/searchmapframes.php">canton de Goulbourn</a>* d’est en ouest, entre les concessions 11 et 12.</p>
<p>À cette intersection, on pouvait aller vers le sud en direction de Richmond, vers le nord en direction de Carp, vers l’est en direction de Hazeldean et Bells Corners, ou vers l’ouest en direction de Carleton Place. Vers 1820, un petit établissement a vu le jour autour du triangle aujourd’hui délimité par la rue Stittsville Main, le chemin Hazeldean et le chemin Carp.  Dans les années 1840, on l’appelait « Stitt’s Corners ». Jackson Stitt en est devenu le premier maître de poste en 1854.</p>
<h3>L’effet transformateur du grand incendie</h3>
<p>Le <a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/150-years-ago-on-august-17-old-stittsville-was-swept-up-in-the-great-fire-of-carleton-county/">grand incendie d’août 1870</a>* a eu un effet déterminant. Un jour venteux de cet été chaud et sec, dans un boisé situé entre Almonte et Pakenham, des travailleurs s’affairaient à déblayer un chemin pour l’aménagement d’une voie ferrée lorsqu’un incendie a ravagé une bonne partie du comté de Carleton. Stittsville a été presque entièrement détruite, à l’exception de quelques édifices en pierre, dont deux sont encore debout aujourd’hui : la <a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/susannah-kemp-a-pioneer-of-historic-significance-to-stittsville/">Kemp’s Tavern</a>* (l’actuel Cabotto, sur le chemin Hazeldean) et un <a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/the-home-of-patrick-and-mary-hartin-on-maple-grove/">petit cottage de pierre</a>* du chemin Maple Grove, dans Fairwinds.</p>
<p>Après la construction du chemin de fer le long de l’actuel Sentier transcanadien, une gare ferroviaire est bâtie à Stittsville, tout juste à l’est de la rue principale, dans l’actuel parc Village Square. Le cœur de Stittsville se déplace ensuite de Stitt’s Corner vers la gare, autour de laquelle plusieurs magasins, hôtels et entreprises s’installent à la fin du XIX<sup>e</sup> et au début du XX<sup>e</sup> siècle.</p>
<h3>Cité linéaire</h3>
<p>Bien que ce soit difficile à imaginer de nos jours, il faut savoir que, pendant la majeure partie de l’histoire de Stittsville, la rue principale n’était pas seulement la principale artère du coin; c’était aussi l’une des *seules* routes du secteur. Stittsville était alors considérée comme une « cité linéaire », c’est-à-dire un endroit où la plupart des bâtiments et des établissements sont situés aux abords d’une seule rue très longue entrecoupée de quelques rues transversales ou routes secondaires.</p>
<p>Le premier lotissement a vu le jour en 1901, avec plusieurs maisons construites dos à dos sur les rues Abbott et Manchester, à l’ouest de la rue Main. Ce n’est qu’après la Seconde Guerre mondiale que d’autres lotissements se sont développés.</p>
<p>Cette organisation linéaire confère à la rue un aspect qui la distingue nettement des autres rues principales traditionnelles de la région. En effet, on n’y trouve ni le quadrillage ni les intersections du Glebe ou de Westboro, et l’aménagement y est beaucoup moins compact que sur les rues principales plus anciennes de Carleton Place ou d’Almonte. Pendant une bonne partie du XX<sup>e</sup> siècle, la rue a aussi conservé un caractère résolument rural.</p>
<h3>L’ambition de l’après-guerre</h3>
<p>Au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la population de Stittsville brille par son ambition. À la fin des années 1940, la communauté se dote d’une nouvelle école élémentaire, la Stittsville Public School (aujourd’hui l’<a href="https://frederickbantingalt.ocdsb.ca/">École secondaire alternative Frederick-Banting</a>, qui abrite également le <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=61567020748076">Centre de la jeunesse Home Bosses</a>*). L’établissement fait figure de modèle d’école élémentaire moderne, au point d’attirer des représentants de conseils scolaires des quatre coins de l’Ontario. C’est à peu près à la même époque que la collectivité crée une chambre de commerce et délimite une zone d’expansion urbaine; c’est le début d’un plan directeur et plan zonage pour le village.</p>
<p>En 1956, Stittsville obtient le statut de village partiellement autonome, ce qui confère aux élus locaux des pouvoirs décisionnels et budgétaires au sein du canton de Goulbourn. Au début des années 1960, Stittsville obtient le statut officiel de village.</p>
<p>C’est à cette période que s’amorce la croissance suburbaine et que débutent les déplacements quotidiens en automobile, puisque Stittsville se trouve à une distance commode des lieux d’emplois à Ottawa. Les premiers lotissements d’après-guerre sont installés dans les secteurs anciens du village, sur de grands terrains, vu la nécessité de l’aménagement de puits et d’installations septiques. On y trouve plusieurs voies de circulation, comme Pretty, Ralphpark, Henry Goulbourn, Norway Spruce, Coach, Conductor, Brigade et Bell Park, pour n’en nommer que quelques-unes.</p>
<p>Tout au long des années 1960 et 1970, Stittsville accueille de nouvelles églises, un centre communautaire et un aréna (<a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/photo-essay-johnny-leroux-arena-turns-45-years-old/">l’aréna Johnny-Leroux</a>*), un bureau de poste, une caserne de pompiers et une bibliothèque, tous situés sur la rue Stittsville Main ou à proximité. La Goulbourn Non-Profit Housing Corporation construit aussi un immeuble de logements abordables de deux étages sur la rue Carleton Cathcart.</p>
<p>À la fin des années 1970, le conseil municipal décide de raccorder le village aux réseaux municipaux d’aqueduc et d’égout. Avec cette décision, et avec la construction du Queensway, à l’ouest, dans les années 1980, Stittsville allait progressivement détourner son attention de la rue Main vers l’approche de la fin du siècle.</p>
<h3>La fin du chemin de fer</h3>
<p>C’est en <a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/museum-display-marks-25-years-since-stittsvilles-last-via-train/">janvier 1990 que le dernier train de VIA Rail traverse Stittsville</a>*, ce qui met fin à près de 120 ans de présence ferroviaire. Peu après, les rails sont arrachés, les bâtiments ferroviaires, démolis, et les barrières de passage à niveau, retirées de la rue Main.</p>
<p>En 1991, des travaux de réaménagement de la rue Main sont entrepris. Ce projet de 8 millions de dollars, financé par la Municipalité régionale d’Ottawa-Carleton et le canton de Goulbourn, comprenait l’enfouissement des lignes de transport de l’électricité, l’aménagement de trottoirs des deux côtés de la rue ainsi que la création de boulevards, la plantation d’arbres et l’installation de lampadaires.</p>
<p>En 1996, le site de l’ancienne gare est réaménagé; il devient le parc Village Square, doté d’une <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/update-work-starts-soon-on-the-village-square-park-playground-renewal/">première version de module de jeu à thème ferroviaire</a>*. (La deuxième version a quant à elle été <a href="https://glengower.ca/community/photos-official-opening-of-the-new-play-structure-at-village-square-park/">inaugurée en 2024</a>*.) Avant l’an 2000, la voie ferrée a été retirée et le Sentier transcanadien reliant Bells Corners à Carleton Place a été aménagé.</p>
<p>On peut voir à l’hôtel de ville un tableau de Ben Babelowsky qui représente Stittsville vers 1999-2000. On y voit, du point de vue qu’offre l’emplacement approximatif de l’actuel passage pour piétons lorsqu’on regarde vers le nord, un ensemble coloré de petits immeubles à deux étages abritant des commerces et des restaurants, ainsi qu’un poste de police local.</p>
<p>Cette œuvre fait partie d’une série représentant les villes et les cantons avant leur fusion à la Ville d’Ottawa, en 2000.</p>
<h3>Crise d’urbanisme et plan de conception communautaire</h3>
<p>Avec la fusion municipale, la rue Main a été renommée Stittsville Main, ce qui la distinguait des nombreuses autres voies portant le même nom à Ottawa. Cette période correspond d’ailleurs au début d’un déclin économique sur la rue, qui est survenu en dépit d’une croissance résidentielle continue dans toute la communauté.</p>
<p>Selon moi, divers facteurs sont en cause. D’abord, le développement résidentiel rayonnait vers le nord, l’ouest et le sud. Les nouveaux ensembles commerciaux construits dans les années 1990 et 2000 à l’extrémité nord de la rue Stittsville Main et le long du chemin Hazeldean ont déplacé le pôle commercial du quartier vers le nord, et certains anciens bâtiments ont été ravagés par des incendies.</p>
<p>Vers 2010, un projet d’immeuble d’utilisation polyvalente abritant des appartements et des maisons en rangée visant un terrain près de la Légion de Stittsville fait controverse. Avec ses cinq étages, l’immeuble aurait été le plus élevé de la rue, tout en étant situé dans l’un de ses tronçons les plus étroits. Après quelques revirements, les <a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/reverie-revived-stalled-condo-project-could-continue-later-this-year/">maisons en rangée ont été construites</a>*, l’immeuble d’appartements a été abandonné, et une partie du terrain est toujours à vendre.</p>
<p>Ce projet a néanmoins eu un effet déterminant. En réponse à l’intérêt de la population, l’ancien conseiller municipal Shad Qadri a lancé un processus d’élaboration de plan de conception communautaire pour la rue Stittsville Main. <a href="https://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/default/files/documents/stittsville_main_cdp_fr.pdf">Approuvé en 2015</a>, ce document proposait un plan d’aménagement de la rue entre le chemin Hazeldean et la voie Bobcat. La vision était celle d’un quartier dynamique offrant davantage de logements, de commerces et de services, à la fois dans le cadre bâti existant et dans de nouvelles constructions. Le plan prévoyait une hauteur maximale de quatre étages, privilégiait les utilisations polyvalentes <em>(commerces au rez-de-chaussée et logements aux étages)</em> et préconisait les possibilités d’aménagements communautaires <em>(installation d’art public à l’angle de la rue Carleton Cathcart, création d’une place publique près du sentier au sud de la rue Abbott, possible acquisition de l’école Frederick-Banting à des fins récréatives municipales advenant une mise en vente).</em></p>
<h3>Début de la revitalisation</h3>
<p>Selon ce plan, entre 2015 et 2031, la rue Stittsville Main pouvait accueillir quelque 2 200 logements. Plus de dix ans après son adoption, cet objectif est loin d’être atteint, mais plusieurs projets ont néanmoins vu le jour :</p>
<ul>
<li>Le Switzer (1531, rue Stittsville Main) : 43 appartements, inauguration en 2022</li>
<li>Le Landing (1370, rue Stittsville Main) : 71 appartements, inauguration en 2025</li>
<li>Le Station (1518, rue Stittsville Main) : 27 appartements, en construction</li>
<li>1412, rue Stittsville Main : 18 appartements, en construction</li>
</ul>
<p>Tous ces projets ont été autorisés « de plein droit » en vertu du plan de conception communautaire et n’ont nécessité aucune modification de zonage. À l’exception de celui du 1412, rue Stittsville Main, ces bâtiments comprennent des commerces au rez-de-chaussée et des logements aux étages. Au total, on compte un peu plus de 150 appartements.</p>
<p>(<em>On pourrait également mentionner le projet du 37, cour Wildpine, qui est situé à proximité de la rue Stittsville Main et compte 93 logements, et pour lequel le processus d’approbation est en cours.</em>)</p>
<p>Au-delà du logement, la rue a aussi accueilli beaucoup de nouveaux commerces, dont la plupart sont des entreprises indépendantes exploitées par leurs propriétaires, qui profitent de loyers abordables dans des bâtiments anciens. C’est ainsi que la rue est devenue une pépinière d’entreprises appartenant à des femmes ou à des personnes issues de la diversité, que l’on pense à des restaurants, à des commerces de détail ou à divers autres types d’entreprises. <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs">Jane Jacobs</a> serait sans doute ravie!</p>
<p>Même <a href="https://glengower.ca/community/celebrating-the-new-stittsville-muslim-association-sign/">l’Association musulmane de Stittsville</a>* s’est installée au 1469, rue Stittsville Main, transformant temporairement l’ancien immeuble de Bradley’s Insurance en mosquée et en école, le temps de trouver un plus grand local ailleurs à Stittsville.</p>
<p>Lors des premières visites que j’ai menées pour <em>La promenade de Jane</em>, nous faisions un arrêt sur le perron de l’ancien Green’s Hotel, ou Butler’s Hotel, à l’angle des rues Stittsville Main et Abbott. À l’époque, les bureaux de Hudson’s Insurance s’y trouvaient, et je mentionnais qu’il serait formidable d’y voir s’installer un café ou un pub. Aujourd’hui, on y trouve le Ritual Café, qui appartient à Chinelo Houron, et il s’agit d’un endroit très aimé des cyclistes et des adeptes du Sentier transcanadien.</p>
<p>Plutôt que de faire un arrêt sur le perron de l’édifice, nous nous réunissons maintenant à la place Bradley. <a href="https://glengower.ca/development/update-final-plan-for-the-stittsville-main-trailhead-project/">Aménagée en 2019 grâce à des fonds de relance provinciaux pour les rues principales</a>*, cette place publique faisait partie des projets présentés dans le plan de conception communautaire de 2015. En 2022, elle a été <a href="https://glengower.ca/community/official-naming-ceremony-for-bradley-square/">renommée en l’honneur des contributions historiques de la famille Bradley au bénéfice de Stittsville</a>*.</p>
<h3>Regard vers l’avenir</h3>
<p>Le quartier de Stittsville a aujourd’hui une population d’environ 55 000 personnes et devrait en accueillir 25 000 de plus les prochaines décennies. Notre rue principale se distingue des autres banlieues d’Ottawa par son caractère, la coexistence d’immeubles anciens et contemporains et le nombre grandissant de commerces variés.</p>
<p>Le transport demeure cependant l’un des grands défis. En effet, la rue Stittsville Main, qui est à mi-chemin entre une route et une rue, correspond à ce que l’on appelle une <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad">« autorue »</a>* : c’est une artère qui laisse place à la circulation automobile nord-sud dans le secteur, mais c’est aussi une rue bordée de petits commerces qui se prête relativement bien à la marche.</p>
<p>Pour la suite des choses, il faudra travailler à en faire plutôt une rue, car c’est dans des milieux à échelle humaine, et non sur des routes, que le commerce de proximité peut s’épanouir.  De nouvelles voies, comme l’avenue Robert Grant, permettront de détourner une partie de la circulation nord-sud de la rue Stittsville Main. Par ailleurs, le <a href="https://glengower.ca/information/stittsville-main-street-public-realm-plan-heads-to-committee-for-approval/">Plan du domaine public de 2022</a>* et le <a href="https://glengower.ca/notebook/notebook-map-of-future-transportation-projects-in-stittsville/">Plan directeur des transports 2025</a>* prévoient l’aménagement de nouveaux trottoirs et de sentiers des deux côtés de la rue, ce qui améliorera la sécurité et le confort des piétonnes, des piétons et des cyclistes, tout en renforçant les liens avec le Sentier transcanadien. Le lancement du circuit 163 d’OC Transpo en 2025 et l’augmentation prochaine de la fréquence du service sur le circuit 61 vont dans le même sens.</p>
<p>Dans les prochaines années, la rue Stittsville Main sera prolongée vers le nord jusqu’aux quartiers Jackson Trails et Connections, pour rejoindre la promenade Palladium, puis le Queensway. L’ancienne route qui menait à Carp deviendra bientôt un axe vers Kanata et au-delà.</p>
<p>De nouveaux immeubles d’habitation verront le jour, tant sur la rue elle-même qu’à proximité. En raison des origines rurales de la rue, la plupart des terrains sont vastes et profonds, ce qui les rend particulièrement propices aux logements et aux commerces de détail. L’ancienne caserne de pompiers située à l’angle de la rue Carleton Cathcart est aussi mûre pour une reconstruction majeure. La Ville en profitera pour offrir un local permanent à la Banque alimentaire de Stittsville, et probablement pour aménager des logements abordables et des salles communautaires.</p>
<p>Par ailleurs, de nouvelles orientations provinciales s’appliquant aux alentours du chemin Hazeldean ont rendu caduque la limite de quatre étages fixée dans le Plan secondaire de la rue Stittsville Main de 2015. Les règles provinciales autorisent désormais des <a href="https://glengower.ca/development/update-provincial-rule-changes-and-their-impact-on-stittsville-main-street/">hauteurs maximales de 10 à 18 étages</a>* entre la rue Hobin et le chemin Hazeldean. Ainsi, advenant le réaménagement de mails linéaires ou de terrains du conseil scolaire, il se pourrait que des immeubles d’utilisation polyvalente de grande hauteur soient construits.</p>
<h3>La seule constante est le changement</h3>
<p>Je ne me souviens plus où j’ai entendu ou lu cette réflexion, mais un urbaniste avisé soulignait que, si la vocation du territoire et les bâtiments évoluent au fil du temps, les routes, elles, demeurent.</p>
<p>En sillonnant la rue, on peut voir des traces de toutes les périodes de l’histoire de Stittsville, dont des éléments architecturaux représentant différentes décennies et des indices de son passé rural et ferroviaire. Je me demande si les premiers arpenteurs et colons du canton de Goulbourn ont pu s’imaginer que la route qu’ils avaient tracée vers le nord, du chemin Richmond à la limite de la concession 11, deviendrait un jour l’épine dorsale d’une banlieue du XXI<sup>e</sup> siècle en pleine croissance, au cœur de la capitale du pays.</p>
<p>Il y a dix ans, lorsque j’ai commencé à animer des visites dans le cadre de <em>La promenade de Jane</em>, la revitalisation de la rue Stittsville Main en était à ses balbutiements. Nous sommes encore au tout début de ce processus, tout est loin d’être parfait, et la transformation demande inévitablement des ajustements, mais les bâtiments récents comme le <a href="https://glengower.ca/tag/1531-stittsville-main/">Switzer</a>* et le <a href="https://glengower.ca/tag/1518-stittsville-main/">Station</a>* nous permettent déjà d’esquisser la direction que prendra la rue et ce qu’elle pourrait devenir dans les 25 prochaines années.</p>
<p>Au plaisir de vous croiser dans le quartier!</p>
<hr />
<p><strong>Sources partielles consultées pour ce bulletin</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C195669"><em>Stittsville: A Sense of Place</em></a>, de Barbara Bottriell</li>
<li><a href="https://goulbournhistoricalsociety.org/">Société historique du canton de Goulbourn</a>*</li>
<li><a href="https://goulbournmuseum.ca/">Musée Goulbourn</a>*</li>
<li><a href="https://stittsvillecentral.ca/category/heritage/">StittsvilleCentral.ca</a>*</li>
</ul>
<p>* : pages en anglais seulement</p>
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<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00019.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20969" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00019.jpg" alt="Jane's Walk 2026 on Stittsville Main Street" width="1920" height="1440" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00019.jpg 1920w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00019-1280x960.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00019-980x735.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00019-480x360.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00010.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20968" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00010.jpg" alt="Jane's Walk 2026 on Stittsville Main Street" width="1920" height="1439" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00010.jpg 1920w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00010-1280x959.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00010-980x735.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00010-480x360.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00024.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20967" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00024.jpg" alt="Jane's Walk 2026 on Stittsville Main Street" width="1920" height="1440" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00024.jpg 1920w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00024-1280x960.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00024-980x735.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00024-480x360.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00013.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20966" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00013.jpg" alt="Jane's Walk 2026 on Stittsville Main Street" width="1536" height="2048" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00013.jpg 1536w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00013-1280x1707.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00013-980x1307.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00013-480x640.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1536px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00006.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20965" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00006.jpg" alt="Jane's Walk 2026 on Stittsville Main Street" width="1920" height="1440" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00006.jpg 1920w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00006-1280x960.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00006-980x735.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00006-480x360.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00001.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20964" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00001.jpg" alt="" width="1920" height="1427" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00001.jpg 1920w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00001-1280x951.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00001-980x728.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00001-480x357.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00023.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20963" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00023.jpg" alt="Jane's Walk 2026 on Stittsville Main Street" width="1920" height="1440" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00023.jpg 1920w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00023-1280x960.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00023-980x735.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00023-480x360.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00007.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20962" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00007.jpg" alt="Jane's Walk 2026 on Stittsville Main Street" width="1920" height="1440" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00007.jpg 1920w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00007-1280x960.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00007-980x735.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00007-480x360.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00020.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20960" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00020.jpg" alt="Jane's Walk 2026 on Stittsville Main Street" width="1684" height="2046" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00020.jpg 1684w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00020-1280x1555.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00020-980x1191.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Janes-Walk-2026-Mandy-Photos-00020-480x583.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1684px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/notebook/photos-janes-walk-on-stittsville-main-street-2026/">NOTEBOOK: Taking stock of Stittsville Main Street</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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		<title>MAY 2: Jane&#8217;s Walk on Stittsville Main Street (2026)</title>
		<link>https://glengower.ca/events/may-2-janes-walk-on-stittsville-main-street-2026/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=may-2-janes-walk-on-stittsville-main-street-2026</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Gower]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 12:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Originally published April 18, 2026 La version française suit Jane’s Walk is a pedestrian-focused event that improves urban literacy by offering insights into local history, planning, design, and civic engagement through the simple act of walking and observing. It is named for Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) who was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/events/may-2-janes-walk-on-stittsville-main-street-2026/">MAY 2: Jane&#8217;s Walk on Stittsville Main Street (2026)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Originally published April 18, 2026</em></p>
<p><em>La version française suit</em></p>
<p>Jane’s Walk is a pedestrian-focused event that improves urban literacy by offering insights into local history, planning, design, and civic engagement through the simple act of walking and observing. It is named for Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) who was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to understanding, organizing, designing, and building cities.</p>
<p>I’m hosting another walk this year on Stittsville Main Street on <strong>Saturday, May 2. </strong>It starts at 4:00pm and lasts about 90 minutes<strong>. </strong>Spaces are limited and registration is recommended to help us plan: <a href="https://www.janeswalkottawa.ca/en/walks/janes-walk-ottawa-gatineau-2026/22117">https://www.janeswalkottawa.ca/en/walks/janes-walk-ottawa-gatineau-2026/22117</a></p>
<p>This year’s theme is “Stories of Stittsville Main Street”. For more than 170 years, Stittsville has evolved from a small rural village into a vibrant suburban community. On this walk, we’ll explore how the function of Stittsville Main Street has changed over time through stories about its history, familiar landmarks, and distinctive architecture. We’ll also look ahead to the future and consider how the street may continue to evolve. As always, the walk will be a great opportunity to meet neighbours and experience Stittsville’s favourite street together.</p>
<p>Registration is also open for walks planned all over Ottawa from May 1-3, 2026. Check out the <a href="https://www.janeswalkottawa.ca">Jane’s Walk web site</a> for info.</p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/community/meet-me-on-stittsville-main-street-a-recap-of-this-years-janes-walk/">See photos from the 2025 Jane&#8217;s Walk on Stittsville Main&#8230;</a></p>
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<h2>2 MAI : Promenade de Jane sur la rue Stittsville Main (2026)</h2>
<p>La Promenade de Jane est un événement piétonnier qui améliore la compréhension de la dynamique urbaine en offrant un aperçu de l’histoire locale, de la planification, de la conception et de l’engagement civique par la marche et l’observation. L’événement honore Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), une urbaniste et activiste dont les écrits prônaient l’adoption d’une approche communautaire novatrice pour comprendre, organiser, concevoir et construire les villes.</p>
<p>La marche aura lieu de nouveau cette année, sur la rue Stittsville Main, le <strong>samedi 2 mai 2026. </strong>Elle commencera à 16 h et durera environ 90 minutes<strong>. </strong>Les places sont limitées. Il est donc recommandé de vous inscrire pour nous aider à planifier en conséquence : <a href="https://www.janeswalkottawa.ca/fr/walks/janes-walk-ottawa-gatineau-2026/22117">https://www.janeswalkottawa.ca/fr/walks/janes-walk-ottawa-gatineau-2026/22117</a>.</p>
<p>Le thème cette année : « Les récits de la rue Stittsville Main ». Sur une période de plus de 170 ans, Stittsville est passé de petit village rural à communauté de banlieue dynamique. Lors de cette promenade, nous verrons comment la rue Stittsville Main s’est transformée avec le temps, par le biais de récits sur son histoire, ses repères familiers et son architecture distincte. Nous songerons aussi à la forme qu’elle pourrait prendre dans l’avenir. Naturellement, il s’agit d’une excellente occasion de rencontrer vos voisines et voisins, tout en profitant ensemble de cette rue si chère à notre quartier.</p>
<p>Il est aussi possible de s’inscrire aux autres marches prévues dans tout Ottawa du 1<sup>er</sup> au 3 mai 2026. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le <a href="https://www.janeswalkottawa.ca/fr">site Web de la Promenade de Jane</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/community/meet-me-on-stittsville-main-street-a-recap-of-this-years-janes-walk/">Voir les photos de l’édition de 2025</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/events/may-2-janes-walk-on-stittsville-main-street-2026/">MAY 2: Jane&#8217;s Walk on Stittsville Main Street (2026)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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		<title>Coldest Night of the Year walk raises over $20,000 for Lionhearts</title>
		<link>https://glengower.ca/community/coldest-night-of-the-year-walk-raises-over-20000-for-lionhearts/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=coldest-night-of-the-year-walk-raises-over-20000-for-lionhearts</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>La version française suit A huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the Coldest Night of the Year fundraising walk for Lionhearts on Saturday evening along Stittsville Main Street. 👏👏👏 Over 100 walkers raised nearly $20,500 to support Lionhearts work in our community to support food banks, emergency shelters, and community service agencies. And [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/community/coldest-night-of-the-year-walk-raises-over-20000-for-lionhearts/">Coldest Night of the Year walk raises over $20,000 for Lionhearts</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>La version française suit</em></p>
<p>A huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the Coldest Night of the Year fundraising walk for <a href="https://www.lionhearts.ca/ottawa/">Lionhearts</a> on Saturday evening along Stittsville Main Street. 👏👏👏</p>
<p>Over 100 walkers raised nearly $20,500 to support Lionhearts work in our community to support food banks, emergency shelters, and community service agencies.</p>
<p>And across Canada, more than 40,000 have raised nearly $14.8-million in support of local charities serving people experiencing hurt, hunger, and homelessness.</p>
<p>A big thank you to all of the teams, volunteers, and sponsors for making this event such a big success. High five to the Stittsville Community Bible Church for hosting the event. 🙌</p>
<p><em>Photos by Mandy Hambly and Marlova Martin.</em></p>
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<h2>Plus de 20 000 $ recueillis au profit de Lionhearts lors de « La nuit la plus froide de l’année »</h2>
<p>Un immense MERCI à toutes les personnes qui ont participé, samedi soir, à la marche de financement « La nuit la plus froide de l’année » au profit de <a href="https://www.lionhearts.ca/ottawa/">Lionhearts</a>, le long de la rue Stittsville Main. 👏👏👏</p>
<p>Plus de 100 marcheuses et marcheurs ont amassé près de 20 500 $ au profit de Lionhearts, qui œuvre auprès des banques d’alimentation, des refuges d’urgence et d’autres organismes de services à la collectivité.</p>
<p>À l’échelle du pays, plus de 40 000 participantes et participants ont recueilli près de 14,8 millions de dollars au bénéfice d’organismes caritatifs locaux qui viennent en aide aux personnes vivant des situations de détresse, de faim ou d’itinérance. Un grand merci à toutes les équipes, aux bénévoles et aux commanditaires qui ont fait de cet événement un si grand succès. Et chapeau à la Community Bible Church de Stittsville pour l’accueil! 🙌</p>
<p><em>Photos de Mandy Hambly et Marlova Martin.</em></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-mandy-marlova-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20266" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-mandy-marlova-1-880x1024.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="880" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-group-photo.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20262" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-group-photo-1024x576.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-group-photo-980x551.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-group-photo-480x270.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-libby-and-sue-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20261" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-libby-and-sue-771x1024.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="771" height="1024" /></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-getting-ready-to-walk.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20259" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-getting-ready-to-walk-1024x576.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-getting-ready-to-walk-980x551.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-getting-ready-to-walk-480x270.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-toques.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20256" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-toques-768x1024.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="768" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-volunteers-with-snowman.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20255" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-volunteers-with-snowman-819x1024.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="819" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-crossing-main.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20254" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-crossing-main-1024x726.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="1024" height="726" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-crossing-main-980x695.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-crossing-main-480x340.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-volunteer-sign.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20253" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-volunteer-sign-776x1024.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="776" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-team-stittsville.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20252" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-team-stittsville-1024x750.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="1024" height="750" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-team-stittsville-980x717.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-team-stittsville-480x351.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-ellery-tracy.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20251" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-ellery-tracy-768x1024.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="768" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-walking-on-main.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20250" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-walking-on-main-1024x672.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="1024" height="672" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-walking-on-main-980x643.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-walking-on-main-480x315.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-crossing-abott.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20249" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-crossing-abott-1024x720.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="1024" height="720" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-crossing-abott-980x689.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-crossing-abott-480x338.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-family.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20248" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-family-784x1024.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="784" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-mandy-with-sign-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20264" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-mandy-with-sign-771x1024.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="771" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-george-with-sign.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20263" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-george-with-sign-1024x771.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="1024" height="771" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-george-with-sign-980x738.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-george-with-sign-480x361.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-wave.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20247" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-wave-1024x768.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="1024" height="768" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-wave-980x735.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-wave-480x360.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-youth-sign.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20246" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-youth-sign-1024x724.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="1024" height="724" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-youth-sign-980x692.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-youth-sign-480x339.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-kitchen-volunteers.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20245" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-kitchen-volunteers-1024x691.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="1024" height="691" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-kitchen-volunteers-980x661.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-kitchen-volunteers-480x324.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-smiles.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20243" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-smiles-1024x686.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="1024" height="686" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-smiles-980x657.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-smiles-480x322.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-tristan-sign.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20242" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-tristan-sign-773x1024.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="773" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-top-team.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20265" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-top-team-1024x576.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-top-team-980x551.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-top-team-480x270.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-marlova-mandy-glen-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-20257" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cnoy-marlova-mandy-glen-756x1024.jpg" alt="Coldest Night of the Year 2026" width="756" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/community/coldest-night-of-the-year-walk-raises-over-20000-for-lionhearts/">Coldest Night of the Year walk raises over $20,000 for Lionhearts</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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		<title>PHOTOS: Stittsville Parade of Lights 2025</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>La version française suit What an incredible parade on Stittsville Main Street!  🎅🏽 Thank you to the Stittsville Village Association and all the volunteers who helped make the 2025 Stittsville Parade of Lights such a great success. ☃️ A fantastic night that started with a snow squall and ended with a visit from Santa himself! 🎄 [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/community/photos-stittsville-parade-of-lights-2025/">PHOTOS: Stittsville Parade of Lights 2025</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>La version française suit</em></p>
<p>What an incredible parade on Stittsville Main Street!  🎅🏽 Thank you to the Stittsville Village Association and all the volunteers who helped make the 2025 Stittsville Parade of Lights such a great success.</p>
<p>☃️ A fantastic night that started with a snow squall and ended with a visit from Santa himself!</p>
<p>🎄 Special thanks to the Stittsville Lions Club, Ottawa Fire Services (Station 81), ISI LIVE for the live broadcast, Mayor Mark Sutcliffe and Ginny Sutcliffe, and all of the organizations who took part in the parade.</p>
<p><a href="https://video.isilive.ca/sva/2025-12-06"><strong>You can watch video coverage of the parade from ISI Live here&#8230;</strong></a></p>
<p>~Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!~</p>
<p><em>(Photos by Marlova Martin, Mark Kelly, Councillor Glen)</em></p>
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<h2>PHOTOS : Défilé des lumières de Stittsville 2025</h2>
<p>Quel défilé incroyable sur la rue principale à Stittsville!  🎅🏽 Merci à la Stittsville Village Association ainsi qu’à tous les bénévoles qui ont contribué à la réussite du Défilé des lumières de Stittsville 2025.</p>
<p>☃️ Une soirée fantastique qui a commencé par une bourrasque de neige et s’est terminée par la visite du père Noël lui-même!</p>
<p>🎄Nous remercions tout particulièrement le Club Lions de Stittsville, le Service des incendies d’Ottawa (caserne 81), iSiLIVE pour la diffusion en direct, le maire Mark Sutcliffe et Ginny Sutcliffe, et tous les organismes qui ont participé au défilé.</p>
<p><a href="https://video.isilive.ca/sva/2025-12-06"><strong>Vous pouvez visionner la vidéo du défilé diffusée par iSiLive ici…</strong></a></p>
<p>~Joyeux Noël et joyeuses Fêtes!~</p>
<p><em>(Photos de Marlova Martin, de Mark Kelly et du conseiller Glen Gower)</em></p>
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<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Highlights from the 2025 Stittsville Parade of Lights!" width="563" height="1000" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/amzwk698hm8?feature=oembed"  allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-crowd.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19465" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-crowd-771x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Massive crowds" width="771" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-parade-float-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19452" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-parade-float-576x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Ottawa parade float" width="576" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-bradley-square-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19456" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-bradley-square-576x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - big crowd near Abbott" width="576" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-pretty-pots-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19449" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-pretty-pots-576x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Pretty Pots" width="576" height="1024" /></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-mayor-glen-photo-by-m-kelly.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19451" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-mayor-glen-photo-by-m-kelly-1024x683.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Mayor Sutcliffe and Councillor Glen" width="1024" height="683" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-mayor-glen-photo-by-m-kelly-980x653.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-mayor-glen-photo-by-m-kelly-480x320.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-ginny-mark-glen-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19453" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-ginny-mark-glen-576x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Ginny Sutcliffe, Mayor Sutcliffe, Councillor Glen" width="576" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-mayor-waves-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19454" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-mayor-waves-576x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Mayor Sutcliffe waves to the crowd" width="576" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-ritual2-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19455" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-ritual2-576x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Ritual" width="576" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-glen-waving.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19462" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-glen-waving-771x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Councillor Glen waves" width="771" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-switzer-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19457" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-switzer-576x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Switzer apartments" width="576" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-float-group.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19458" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-float-group-1024x768.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - float group" width="1024" height="768" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-float-group-980x735.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-float-group-480x360.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-santa-bus-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19459" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-santa-bus-576x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Santa bus" width="576" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-glen-and-mayor.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19464" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-glen-and-mayor-771x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Waving to the crowd" width="771" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-ritual.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19466" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-ritual-1024x771.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Ritual" width="1024" height="771" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-ritual-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-ritual-980x738.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-ritual-480x361.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-santa-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19461" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-santa-576x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Santa arrives" width="576" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-glen-and-sam.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19467" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-glen-and-sam-703x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Sam Laprade interviews Glen" width="703" height="1024" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-glen-and-sam-703x1024.jpg 703w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-glen-and-sam-480x699.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 703px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-choir.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19463" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-choir-1024x771.jpg" alt="Stittsville Parade of Lights - Choir at Village Square Park" width="1024" height="771" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-choir-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-choir-980x738.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/parade-of-lights-choir-480x361.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a></p>
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		<title>Celebrating the new Stittsville Muslim Association sign</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>La version française suit This morning we celebrated the official unveiling of the new Stittsville Muslim Association sign, in front of their community building on Stittsville Main Street. Some background: In August, after an incident of hateful graffiti on the SMA property, the community came together for a reflection and healing event. One of the [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>This morning we celebrated the official unveiling of the new Stittsville Muslim Association sign, in front of their community building on Stittsville Main Street.</p>
<p><strong>Some background:</strong><br />
In August, after an incident of hateful graffiti on the SMA property, the community came together for a reflection and healing event. One of the action items stemming from that meeting was to install a sign to bring more visibility to the SMA in our community.</p>
<p><strong>Today:</strong><br />
It was a real full-circle moment to be joined again this morning by Mayor Mark Sutcliffe, MP Bruce Fanjoy, Amira Elghawaby (Canada&#8217;s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia), SMA Iman Ahmed Elemam, president Amir Siddiqi and volunteers, local faith leaders, and community association representatives from across Stittsville.</p>
<p>I’ve been thrilled to see the SMA’s growth in recent years, and their continuing involvement in the community. They are now one of the largest associations in Stittsville, supporting Muslim residents and giving back to the community at large through programs like Adopt-A-Park, Cleaning the Capital, and food drives.</p>
<p>Thank you to everyone who joined us today for your continued support!</p>
<p><em>Photos by Catherine Musgrove</em></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-group-in-front-of-sign.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19413" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-group-in-front-of-sign-1024x734.jpg" alt="Group photo in front of the Stittsville Muslim Association sign" width="1024" height="734" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-group-in-front-of-sign-980x703.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-group-in-front-of-sign-480x344.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a> <a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-sign-group-2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19414" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-sign-group-2-1024x814.jpg" alt="Group photo in front of the Stittsville Muslim Association sign" width="1024" height="814" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-sign-group-2-980x779.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-sign-group-2-480x382.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw" /></a> <a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-new-sign-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19415" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-new-sign-824x1024.jpg" alt="Stittsville Muslim Association sign" width="824" height="1024" /></a></p>
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<h2>Célébration de la nouvelle enseigne de l’Association musulmane de Stittsville</h2>
<p>Ce matin, nous avons célébré le dévoilement officiel de la nouvelle enseigne de l’Association musulmane de Stittsville, devant le bâtiment communautaire de l’organisme sur la rue Stittsville Main.</p>
<p><strong>Un peu d’histoire</strong><br />
En août, après un incident de graffitis haineux sur la propriété de l’Association, la communauté s’est réunie dans le cadre d’un événement de réflexion et de guérison. L’une des mesures découlant de cette réunion était d’installer une enseigne afin d’accroître la visibilité de l’Association dans notre communauté.</p>
<p><strong>Aujourd’hui</strong><br />
Ce fut un véritable moment de plénitude que de retrouver ce matin le maire Mark Sutcliffe, le député Bruce Fanjoy, Amira Elghawaby (représentante spéciale du Canada chargée de la lutte contre l’islamophobie), Ahmed Elemam, imam de l’Association musulmane de Stittsville, ainsi que des bénévoles, des chefs religieux locaux et des représentants d’associations communautaires de Stittsville.</p>
<p>Je me réjouis de constater la croissance qu’a connue l’Association musulmane de Stittsville ces dernières années et son implication continue dans la communauté. Elle est aujourd’hui l’une des plus importantes associations de Stittsville, soutenant les résidents musulmans et redonnant à l’ensemble de la communauté dans le cadre de programmes comme Adoptez un parc, le Grand ménage de la capitale et les collectes de denrées alimentaires.</p>
<p>Je remercie toutes les personnes qui se sont jointes à nous aujourd’hui pour leur soutien indéfectible!</p>
<p><em>Photos de Catherine Musgrove</em></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-group-in-front-of-sign.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19413" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-group-in-front-of-sign.jpg" alt="Group photo in front of the Stittsville Muslim Association sign" width="1920" height="1377" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-group-in-front-of-sign.jpg 1920w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-group-in-front-of-sign-1280x918.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-group-in-front-of-sign-980x703.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-group-in-front-of-sign-480x344.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-sign-group-2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19414" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-sign-group-2.jpg" alt="Group photo in front of the Stittsville Muslim Association sign" width="1920" height="1526" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-sign-group-2.jpg 1920w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-sign-group-2-1280x1018.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-sign-group-2-980x779.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-sign-group-2-480x382.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-new-sign-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19415" src="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-new-sign-scaled.jpg" alt="Stittsville Muslim Association sign" width="1920" height="2386" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-new-sign-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-new-sign-1280x1591.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-new-sign-980x1218.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sma-new-sign-480x597.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw" /></a></p>
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		<title>Flower baskets brighten Stittsville Main Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>La version française suit (Some of this year&#8217;s Stittsville Main Street pilot project supporters pose with one of the flower baskets.) Stittsville&#8217;s Main Street finally blossomed this summer with the launch of a pilot project to bring hanging flower baskets to our historic district. In partnership with the Stittsville Business Association, the effort marked an [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><em>(Some of this year&#8217;s Stittsville Main Street pilot project supporters pose with one of the flower baskets.)</em></p>
<p>Stittsville&#8217;s Main Street finally blossomed this summer with the launch of a pilot project to bring hanging flower baskets to our historic district. In partnership with the <a href="https://stittsvilleba.ca/">Stittsville Business Association</a>, the effort marked an important step toward a more vibrant streetscape.</p>
<p>Community members and visitors alike shared their appreciation for the effort. The baskets serve as a symbol of what is possible when we work together to beautify our shared spaces.</p>
<p>This project would not have been possible without the support of many generous people in Stittsville. We extend a heartfelt thanks to sponsors, including businesses, organizations, and individuals whose financial contributions helped turn the project into reality.</p>
<p>The pilot did face some growing pains. It was one of the driest summers on record, and the new blooms battled the elements. The contractor replaced the baskets twice with fresh flowers and fresh hopes, once in August and once in September.</p>
<p>The most encouraging part of this pilot year is what comes next. With lessons learned, we are planning an expanded hanging basket program for next season. We are hopeful that with continued support (and some more rain!) our second season of hanging flower baskets will truly reflect our community&#8217;s love of the village.</p>
<p><em>Thank you!</em></p>
<p>This year’s supporters include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Anna &amp; Denis Colbourne</li>
<li>Capital Services</li>
<li>Carol Traversy</li>
<li>CPI Interiors</li>
<li>Focus Forward</li>
<li>Foley Peeters Home Team</li>
<li>Julie and Grahame Johnson</li>
<li>Kathy Coulby</li>
<li>Kristine Johnson</li>
<li>Legacy Small Engines</li>
<li>Melissa &amp; Stephane Petit-Clerc</li>
<li>Phil Sweetnam</li>
<li>Postcard Perfect Ltd.</li>
<li>Stittsville Business Association</li>
<li>Stittsville Village Association</li>
<li>Tailored Home Improvements</li>
<li>The Stittsville Lions Club</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/stittsville-main-hanging-flowers.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18877" src="http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/stittsville-main-hanging-flowers.jpg" alt="Hanging flower baskets on Stittsville Main Street" width="2400" height="2400" srcset="http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/stittsville-main-hanging-flowers.jpg 2400w, http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/stittsville-main-hanging-flowers-1280x1280.jpg 1280w, http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/stittsville-main-hanging-flowers-980x980.jpg 980w, http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/stittsville-main-hanging-flowers-480x480.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2400px, 100vw" /></a></p>
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<h2>Des paniers de fleurs égayent la rue Stittsville Main</h2>
<p><em>(Certains des partisans du projet pilote de la rue Stittsville Main de cette année posent avec l’un des paniers de fleurs.)</em></p>
<p>La rue Stittsville Main s’est enfin épanouie cet été avec le lancement d’un projet pilote visant à introduire des paniers de fleurs suspendus dans notre arrondissement historique. En partenariat avec la <a href="https://stittsvilleba.ca/">Stittsville Business Association</a>, l’effort déployé a marqué une étape importante vers un paysage de rue plus dynamique.</p>
<p>Les membres de la communauté, tout comme les visiteurs, sont reconnaissants de ces travaux. Les paniers symbolisent ce qu’il est possible de faire lorsque nous travaillons ensemble pour embellir nos espaces communs.</p>
<p>Ce projet n’aurait pas été possible sans le soutien de nombreuses personnes généreuses de Stittsville. Nous remercions chaleureusement les commanditaires, notamment les entreprises, les organisations et les particuliers dont les contributions financières ont permis de concrétiser le projet.</p>
<p>Le projet pilote a connu quelques difficultés en cours de route. L’été a été l’un des plus secs jamais enregistrés et les nouvelles fleurs ont lutté contre les éléments. L’entrepreneur a remplacé les paniers à deux reprises par des fleurs fraîches, renouvelant ainsi l’espoir, une fois en août et une fois en septembre.</p>
<p>La suite des choses constituera la partie la plus encourageante de cette année pilote. Forts des enseignements tirés, nous prévoyons un programme élargi de paniers suspendus pour la saison prochaine. Nous espérons qu’avec un soutien continu (et un peu plus de pluie!), notre deuxième saison de paniers de fleurs suspendus reflétera vraiment l’amour de notre communauté pour le village.</p>
<p><em>Merci!</em></p>
<p>Voici les organismes qui y ont participé cette année :</p>
<ul>
<li>Anna et Denis Colbourne</li>
<li>Capital Services</li>
<li>Carol Traversy</li>
<li>CPI Interiors</li>
<li>Regard vers l’avenir</li>
<li>Foley Peeters Home Team</li>
<li>Julie et Grahame Johnson</li>
<li>Kathy Coulby</li>
<li>Kristine Johnson</li>
<li>Legacy Small Engines</li>
<li>Melissa et Stephane Petit-Clerc</li>
<li>Phil Sweetnam</li>
<li>Postcard Perfect Ltd.</li>
<li>Stittsville Business Association</li>
<li>L’Association du Village de Stittsville</li>
<li>Tailored Home Improvements</li>
<li>Club Lions de Stittsville</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/stittsville-main-hanging-flowers.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18877" src="http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/stittsville-main-hanging-flowers.jpg" alt="Hanging flower baskets on Stittsville Main Street" width="1920" height="1920" srcset="http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/stittsville-main-hanging-flowers.jpg 1920w, http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/stittsville-main-hanging-flowers-1280x1280.jpg 1280w, http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/stittsville-main-hanging-flowers-980x980.jpg 980w, http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/stittsville-main-hanging-flowers-480x480.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw" /></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>La version française suit We&#8217;ve partnered with the Stittsville Business Association to launch a Hanging Flower Basket Pilot Program on Stittsville Main Street this year. Postcard Perfect is installing and maintaining twelve hanging flower pots on lightposts near the intersection of Stittsville Main and Abbott. We&#8217;re reaching out to Stittsville businesses, community groups and residents [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>We&#8217;ve partnered with the <a href="https://stittsvilleba.ca/">Stittsville Business Association</a> to launch a <strong>Hanging Flower Basket Pilot Program </strong>on Stittsville Main Street this year. Postcard Perfect is installing and maintaining twelve hanging flower pots on lightposts near the intersection of Stittsville Main and Abbott.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re reaching out to Stittsville businesses, community groups and residents who want to support the program by &#8220;adopting a basket&#8221; for this season. Your donation of $450 will help pay for the installation and upkeep of one of the baskets.</p>
<p>Your contribution will be acknowledged by the Stittsville Business Association and Councillor Glen through social media and other communications channels.  Let&#8217;s work together to bring life to Stittsville Main Street!</p>
<p>For more information or to make a contribution, please email <a href="mailto:info@stittsvilleba.ca">info@stittsvilleba.ca</a>.</p>
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<h3>Appuyez le projet pilote de paniers de fleurs suspendus sur la rue Stittsville Main</h3>
<p>Nous avons noué un partenariat avec la <a href="https://stittsvilleba.ca/">Stittsville Business Association</a> pour lancer un <strong>projet pilote de paniers de fleurs suspendus </strong>sur la rue Stittsville Main cette année. Postcard Perfect s’occupe de l’installation et de l’entretien de douze paniers de fleurs suspendus aux lampadaires près de l’angle des rues Stittsville Main et Abbott.</p>
<p>Nous sollicitons l’appui des commerces, des groupes communautaires et des résidents de Stittville en vous offrant la possibilité de commanditer un panier de fleurs pendant la saison en cours. Votre don de 450 $ aidera à couvrir les frais d’installation et d’entretien d’un panier.</p>
<p>Votre contribution sera soulignée par la Stittsville Business Association et le conseiller Glen Gower dans les médias sociaux et d’autres communications. Travaillons ensemble pour apporter de la vie à la rue Stittsville Main!</p>
<p>Pour des renseignements ou pour verser un don, veuillez écrire à <a href="mailto:info@stittsvilleba.ca">info@stittsvilleba.ca</a>.</p>
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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17686" src="http://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SBA-flowers-on-Stittsville-Main-full-scaled.jpg" alt="Councillor Glen and members of the SBA on Stittsville Main Street, July 2025" width="1411" height="2560" srcset="https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SBA-flowers-on-Stittsville-Main-full-scaled.jpg 1411w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SBA-flowers-on-Stittsville-Main-full-165x300.jpg 165w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SBA-flowers-on-Stittsville-Main-full-564x1024.jpg 564w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SBA-flowers-on-Stittsville-Main-full-768x1393.jpg 768w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SBA-flowers-on-Stittsville-Main-full-847x1536.jpg 847w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SBA-flowers-on-Stittsville-Main-full-1129x2048.jpg 1129w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SBA-flowers-on-Stittsville-Main-full-610x1107.jpg 610w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SBA-flowers-on-Stittsville-Main-full-1080x1959.jpg 1080w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SBA-flowers-on-Stittsville-Main-full-1280x2322.jpg 1280w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SBA-flowers-on-Stittsville-Main-full-980x1778.jpg 980w, https://glengower.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SBA-flowers-on-Stittsville-Main-full-480x871.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width: 1411px) 100vw, 1411px" /></p>
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<p>The post <a href="https://glengower.ca/community/support-the-2025-hanging-flower-basket-pilot-program-on-stittsville-main-street/">Support the 2025 Hanging Flower Basket Pilot Program on Stittsville Main Street</a> appeared first on <a href="https://glengower.ca">Glen Gower | Councillor / Conseiller | Stittsville</a>.</p>
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