Britannia is a neighborhood and also a street in the west end of Ottawa, on the Ottawa River across from Aylmer. Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant Established: Area: 2,778. ... This is about the river in Canada. ... Aylmer may refer to: Aylmer, Quebec Aylmer, Ontario This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

It was once a small cottage town to the west of Ottawa, but rapid growth in all directions during the 20th century meant that it was soon surrounded by the western suburb of Nepean. Larger, modern houses were built in between cottages. Nowadays it is simply an out-of-the-way part of west end of Ottawa, featuring among other things a dog-washing business, an elementary school, a nature trail (Mud Lake), a beach, and, perhaps unfortunately for would-be swimmers, a water filtration plant. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Housing subdivision near Union, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. ... Nepean was a suburban 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. ... Britannia Beach is a small unicorporated community in the Squamish_Lillooet Regional District of about 300 people on the mainland shore of Howe Sound in British Columbia. ...

The neighborhood has a mix of low and high income housing. The lower income areas of the neighbourhood are closer to Richmond Road and the more affluent areas are located near the yacht club at the north end of Britannia Road.

Britannia retains some of its early cottage flavour, with a yacht club at the end of the road, and many older cottages living on as bungalows. The way it is surrounded by water, forest, and steep hills means that, with a bit of wildlife-conservation, Britannia will probably keep its reclusive appeal for many more years. A row of bungalows in Virginia A bungalow is any single story house. ...

The neighbourhood has a perhaps one of it's kind 1967 EXPO style dome covering a local children's hockey rink that made it to the top 500 architecturally significant buildings in Canada in 2002 as voted by CIRA, and, is home of the annual Ottawa Folk festival at Britannia Park. It's history includes a very large and popular canoe club from the turn of the century, which became the Britannia Yacht Club. Canada's only Gold medal winner from the 1936 Olympic games, Frank Amyot, paddled these waters in the 1920's and 1930's.

The area became popular at the turn of the century because the Ottawa Gas and Electric company extended the trolley line and created an amusement park at Britannia beach to encourage users of the trolley system to use the system on weekends. A cottage and beach community resulted.

Winding it's way through the river front area is a bike path, which extends from Britannia some 12 kilometers to the Parliament buildings downtown. Today, there is probably no neighbourhood in Ottawa more mixed than Britannia forming a contrast with many of the homogenized satellite communities that have become Ottawa.