Bells Corners is a neighbourhood in the city of Ottawa, Canada. Motto: Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant Location of the City of Ottawa in the Province of Ontario Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario Established 1850 as Town of Bytown Incorporated 1855 as City of Ottawa Amalgamated January 1, 2001 Government  - Mayor Larry OBrien  - City Council Ottawa City Council  - Representatives 8...

The community, originally part of Nepean Township and later the city of Nepean, was named after Hugh Bell, who owned a tavern in the area from 1834 to 1863. It was located on the Richmond Road (formerly Highway 7 & Highway 15, which connected Bytown and the settlement at Richmond. Most of Bells Corners was destroyed in a massive fire in August 1870. In 1950, Ottawa annexed the main urban areas of Nepean including Westboro, where the town offices were located. A town hall was built in Bells Corners which was used from 1966 to 1978, when a new city hall was built at Centrepointe. Nepean Township is a historical township in eastern Ontario, Canada. ... Nepean (pronounced ne-PEE-yin) was a local municipality adjacent to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada until it was amalgamated with the 10 other municipalities that formed the Regional Municipality of Ottawa Carleton in 2001 to become the new city of Ottawa. ... Richmond Road is a major road in Ottawa, Ontario. ... The Kings Highway No. ... Bytown is the former name Ottawa, Canada. ... Richmond, Ontario is a quiet town situated south-west of Stittsville, east of Munster and north of North Gower. ... Motto: Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant Location of the City of Ottawa in the Province of Ontario Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario Established 1850 as Town of Bytown Incorporated 1855 as City of Ottawa Amalgamated January 1, 2001 Government  - Mayor Larry OBrien  - City Council Ottawa City Council  - Representatives 8... Westboro is a neighbourhood of Ottawa, Canada often referred to as Westboro Village. ... newer residential subdivision in west/central part of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, developed from 1985 onwards. ...

Up until the middle of the 20th century, Bells Corners was a mainly rural area with many dairy farms. Dairy farming is a class of agricultural, or more properly, an animal husbandry enterprise, raising female cattle, goats, or certain other lactating livestock for long-term production of milk, which may be either processed on-site or transported to a dairy for processing and eventual retail sale. ...

Bells Corners is probably best known for the commercial strip along Robertson Road, which is dominated by car-oriented retail uses, gas stations and fast food restaurants.

Most of the houses in Bells Corners are in a neighbourhood called Lynwood Village, built in the late fifties and early sixties. It is one of the first examples of tract housing in Ottawa. Tract housing near Union, Kentucky. ...

In the fifties Nepean had acknowledged the rights of property owners to subdivide their land for housing but usually individual lots were sold to small builders. In Bells Corners land speculators Lloyd Francis and Donald Sim had assembled a vast tract of land. In 1958 they brought in Bill Teron to build the entire subdivision. By 1960 four hundred families lived in Teron's sprawling ranch-style bungalows; another four hundred homes were built in 1961. Many more were built in 1962. Cyril Lloyd Francis (born March 19, 1920) is a former Canadian politician and one time Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons. ... William (Bill) Teron (born 1932) is a Canadian real estate executive who is known as the Father of Kanata. Born in Gardenton, Manitoba, he moved to Ottawa when he was eighteen. ...

The magnitude of the shift to tract housing is demonstrated by the fact that most of the subdivisions built during the rest of the sixties were the work of three large firms (Minto, Campeau and Assaly/Johannsen).

The interactive website of the Bells Corners community and the Lynwood Village Community Asssociation is http://ato.smartcapital.ca/bc (more history of Bells Corners at http://ato.smartcapital.ca/bc?go=1275108 )