Hintonburg
Hintonburg is a neighbourhood in Kitchissippi Ward in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located west of the Downtown core.
Hintonburg is a neighbourhood in Kitchissippi Ward in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located west of the Downtown core. It is a historically working-class, predominantly residential neighbourhood, with a commercial strip located along Wellington Street West. It is home to the Parkdale Public Market, located along Parkdale Avenue, just north of Wellington. It is considered to be one of Ottawa's most "hipster" neighbourhoods.
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Worth seeing in and around Hintonburg
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Rideau Canal
The Rideau Canal is a 202-kilometre long canal that links the Ottawa River at Ottawa with the Cataraqui River and Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Its 46 locks raise boats from the Ottawa River 83 metres upstream along the Rideau River to the Rideau Lakes, and from there drop 50 metres downstream along the Cataraqui River to Kingston.
3.4 km · canal between Ottawa and Kingston, Canada · Wikipedia - 02National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada, located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum. The museum's building takes up 46,621 square metres, with 12,400 square metres of space used for exhibiting art.
3.7 km · museum of art in Ottawa, Canada · Wikipedia - 03Carleton University
Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning World War II veterans.
3.1 km · university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 04Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada is the federal institution tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada. The national archive and library is the 16th largest library in the world.
2.4 km · national library and archives of Canada · Wikipedia - 05Canadian Museum of History
The Canadian Museum of History is a national museum on anthropology, Canadian history, cultural studies, and ethnology in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. The purpose of the museum is to promote the heritage of Canada, as well as support related research.
3.3 km · museum in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia - 06TD Place Stadium
TD Place Stadium is an outdoor stadium in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located at Lansdowne Park, on the southern edge of The Glebe neighbourhood, where Bank Street crosses the Rideau Canal.
3.5 km · outdoor stadium in Ottawa, Canada · Wikipedia - 07Parliament Hill
Parliament Hill is an area of Crown land on the southern bank of the Ottawa River that houses the Parliament of Canada in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. It accommodates a suite of Gothic revival buildings whose architectural elements were chosen to evoke the history of parliamentary democracy.
3.2 km · site of the Canadian Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 08Canadian Museum of Nature
The Canadian Museum of Nature is a national natural history museum based in Canada's National Capital Region. The museum's exhibitions and public programs are housed in the Victoria Memorial Museum Building, a 18,910-square-metre structure in Ottawa, Ontario.
3.2 km · natural history museum in Ottawa, Canada · Wikipedia - 09Canadian War Museum
The Canadian War Museum is a national museum on the country's military history in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The museum serves as both an educational facility on Canadian military history and a place of remembrance.
1.7 km · national museum in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 10National War Memorial
The National War Memorial, titled The Response, is a tall, granite memorial arch with accreted bronze sculptures in Ottawa, Ontario, designed by Vernon March and first dedicated by King George VI in 1939. Originally built to commemorate the Canadians who died in the First World War, it was in 1982 rededicated to also include those killed in the Second World War and Korean War and again in 2014 to add the dead from the Second Boer War and War in Afghanistan, as well as all Canadians killed in all conflicts past and future.
3.4 km · Canadian national war memorial in Ottawa · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hintonburg
- Airports
- Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 10 km · Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 155 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 257 km
- Stations
- Ottawa Central Station, 2.7 km · Bayview station, 800 m · Carleton Station, 3.2 km
- Montréal → Hintonburg167 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · C$25–33
- Hamilton → HintonburgTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Toronto → Hintonburg347 km · quickest by air, 4h 41m · C$150–230
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Hintonburg
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hintonburg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHowever, there is a tourist-oriented water taxi that runs between Ottawa and Hull for about $6 one way.
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Next door to Hintonburg
Hintonburg is 2 km from Ottawa, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ottawacapital city of Canada3.5 km
- LeBreton Flatsneighborhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada1.7 km
- Centretowndistrict of Ottawa2.8 km
- The Glebeneighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada2.8 km
- West Centretownneighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada1.6 km
- Little Italyneighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada1.3 km