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New Edinburgh

New Edinburgh is a neighbourhood in Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

New Edinburgh
New Edinburgh · Gary Campbell-Hall from Edinburgh, UK (CC BY 2.0)
The place

New Edinburgh is a neighbourhood in Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located to the northeast of the downtown core. It is bordered on the west by the Rideau River, to the north by the Ottawa River, to the south by Beechwood Avenue, and on the east by Springfield Road and the former Rockcliffe Park village limits.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around New Edinburgh

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.

  1. 01
    Rideau Canal

    Canal between Ottawa and Kingston, Canada

    1.9 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    National Gallery of Canada

    Museum of art in Ottawa, Canada

    1.6 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    University of Ottawa

    Public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Library and Archives Canada

    National library and archives of Canada

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Canadian Museum of History

    Museum in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

    2.1 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Parliament Hill

    Site of the Canadian Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    2.1 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Canadian Museum of Nature

    Natural history museum in Ottawa, Canada

    3.2 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Canadian War Museum

    National museum in Ontario, Canada

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    National War Memorial

    Canadian national war memorial in Ottawa

    2 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Rideau Hall

    (officially Governor House) is the official residence of the Canadian monarch

    300 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to New Edinburgh

Airports
Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 13 km · Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 152 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 261 km
Stations
Ottawa station, 4 km · Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport, 3.9 km · Ottawa Central Station, 3.7 km · Tremblay station, 3.9 km
  • Montréal → New Edinburgh
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · C$24–32
  • Hamilton → New Edinburgh
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Quebec → New Edinburgh
    377 km · quickest by air, 6h 26m · C$150–230
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for New Edinburgh

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 New Edinburgh. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHowever, there is a tourist-oriented water taxi that runs between Ottawa and Hull for about $6 one way.

From Wikivoyage: Ottawa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    563 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    572 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    3,173 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,181 km
  5. 05
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    3,198 km

If you know how people move in New Edinburgh – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to New Edinburgh

New Edinburgh is 3 km from Ottawa, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ottawacapital city of Canada1.9 km
  • LeBreton Flatsneighborhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada3.6 km
  • Rockcliffeneighborhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada1.2 km
  • Centretowndistrict of Ottawa3.4 km
  • Vanierneighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada1.8 km
  • Lower Townneighborhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada1 km