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Blackburn Hamlet Blackburn Hamlet is a suburban community in Orléans West-Innes Ward, in the east end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Before the 2001 amalgamation of the city of Ottawa, it was in the city of Gloucester. It is surrounded by rural areas and contains ...

Orléans Orléans (,"Orleans"
(US) and St. Laurent Boulevard to Cyrville Road is a four-lane principal

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that primarily runs through industrial and light commercial areas with partial access control, although with an speed limit. Some residential frontage and considerable commercial frontage exists in the fairly congested section east of Highway 417, where Innes widens to six lanes up to

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and then becomes a divided four-lane road. The Canadian Conservation Institute is located in this section. Innes splits in Blackburn Hamlet; The original alignment runs through the community as an undivided road with a lower speed limit of . The long Blackburn Hamlet Bypass (Ottawa Road 128) was built in the late 1980s; it is a divided expressway around Blackburn Hamlet maintaining , greatly speeding up the commute to Orléans. Once in Orléans, Innes once again becomes a commercial/mixed frontage principal arterial road. This segment was widened from two to four lanes in the mid 2000s due to the

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of south Orléans. The most congested section is at

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, which has become the second commercial hub of Orléans (after

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). The speed limit through Orléans is although during the construction project it was reduced mostly to . Once clear of Orléans (east of Frank Kenny Road), Innes becomes a rural road.

History

Innes Road, originally called the 3rd Line, was completed as a link between the communities of Blackburn and Cyrville in 1878. When the western portion of the road was widened and realigned in the 1980s, much of it ran north of, and parallel to, the original roadway. Part of the original road that still survives as Old Innes Road and Windmill Lane, and runs to Ritchie’s Feed and Seed Store and past other businesses.

Name origin

In 1960, the road was named after John Innes, who was Reeve of the Township of Gloucester from 1931 to 1939. Innes owned a dairy and mixed farm close to the present day intersection of Innes and Bantree Street. He was son to Alexander and Margaret Innes, originally of Aberdeen, Scotland. A monument to John Innes was erected at the corner of Russell Road and

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in 1941, but was not maintained and it was removed when Gloucester was amalgamated into Ottawa. In Fall 2013, a new cairn with a commemorative plaque was placed in front of Gloucester Hall on Bank Street.

Major intersections

* Ottawa Road 26 (St. Laurent Boulevard) (where it becomes Industrial Avenue) * Highway 417 * Ottawa Road 128 (Cyrville Road) * Ottawa Road 27 (Blair Road) * Ottawa Road 27 (Anderson Rd) * Ottawa Road 30 (Blackburn Hamlet Bypass) * Ottawa Road 28 (Bearbrook Road) * Ottawa Road 30 (Blackburn Hamlet Bypass) * Ottawa Road 56 (Orléans Boulevard) * Ottawa Road 55 (Jeanne d'Arc Boulevard) & Ottawa Road 41 (Mer Bleue Road) * Ottawa Road 47 (Tenth Line Road) * Ottawa Road 57 (Trim Road) * Ottawa Road 33 (Frank Kenny Road) * Ottawa Road 35 (Dunning Road)

Communities

* Cyrville * Pineview (http://www.pineviewottawa.com/) *

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* Chapel Hill (North and South) * Mer Bleue * Fallingbrook *

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* Notting Gate * Orleans *

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References

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