Hawthorne Meadows

Hawthorne Meadows is a neighbourhood in Alta Vista Ward in southeast Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is triangular in shape; it is bounded on the west by St. Laurent Boulevard, on the northeast by Russell Road and on the south by Walkley Road.^[2] According to the Canada 2016 Census, the population of this area was 3,577.^[1]

Hawthorne Meadows
Neighbourhood
Hawthorne Park
Hawthorne Meadows
Coordinates: 45°23′32″N 75°35′57″W
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
City	Ottawa
Government
• MPs	David McGuinty
• MPPs	John Fraser
• Councillors	Marty Carr
Area
• Total	0.606 km2 (0.234 sq mi)
Elevation	75 m (250 ft)
Population  (2016)
• Total	3,577[1]
• Density	5,903/km2 (15,290/sq mi)
	Canada 2016 Census
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
Forward sortation area	K1G

History

The neighbourhood exists at the site of the Hawthorne Post office and Orange Hall which was located at the corner of present day Walkley and Russell Roads.^[3] The neighbourhood was mostly built in the 1960s^[4][5] by Minto Construction.^[6] A community association was formed in 1961.^[7]

Demographics

The neighbourhood corresponds to Census Tract 5050010.00 (which also consists of the St. Laurent Square apartments, which are not in the neighbourhood). According to the 2016 Census, 47% of the population were Anglophones and 20% were Francophones. Other major languages include Arabic (8%), Somali (4%), Tagalog (3%), Spanish (2%), Creoles (2%), Italian (1%), Swahili (1%) and Urdu (1%).^[8]

According to the Canada 2016 Census, 45% of the Census Tract was White, 22% was Black, 8% Arab, 5% Filipino, 5% South Asian, 2% Latin American, 2% West Asian, 2% Indigenous and 1% Southeast Asian.^[9]