style="font-size: larger;" | Kanata Lakes

Current Councillor:	Marianne Wilkinson Marianne Wilkinson Marianne Wilkinson is the Councillor of Kanata North in the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is a long-time resident of Kanata and a veteran public servant in that former city. She served as Kanata's first mayor following its incorporation...
Location:	45°18′51.92"N 75°55′28.15"W
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Website:	http://www.klca.ca

Kanata Lakes is a neighbourhood officially referred to as Marchwood-Lakeside within the northern section of Kanata

Kanata, Ontario

Situated in the Ottawa Valley, Kanata is located about west-southwest of Downtown Ottawa along Highway 417 at a latitude of 45°18' North and a longitude of 75°55' West, with an area of . Its northern end is just to the west of the Ottawa River....

 and is part of Ward 4 of the City of Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, also called Kanata North. It is located north of highway 417, west of Beaverbrook, east of Terry Fox Drive, and south of Morgan's Grant. Kanata Lakes' main street is Kanata Avenue, which runs over the 417 into the neighbournoods of Katimavik and Glen Cairn where it becomes Castlefrank Road. Kanata Avenue has four major side roads: Knudson Drive, Walden Drive, Goldridge Drive, Goulbourn Forced Road and Campeau Drive. The current councillor for Ward 4 is Marianne Wilkinson.

Location

Kanata Lakes is located about 22 km (13.7 mi) west-southwest of Downtown Ottawa

Downtown Ottawa

Downtown Ottawa is the central area of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Like other downtowns it is the commercial and economic centre of the city. It is sometimes referred to as the Central Business District and contains Ottawa's financial district. It is bordered by the Ottawa River to the north, the...

 along Highway 417

Highway 417 (Ontario)

King's Highway 417, also known as Highway 417 and the Queensway through Ottawa is a 400-series highways in the Canadian province of Ontario which connects Montreal with Ottawa. It is the backbone of the transportation system in the Ottawa region, where it forms part of the Queensway along with...

. Latitude of 45°18' North and a longitude of 75°55' West, and an area of 139 square kilometers. It is part of the Ottawa Valley

Ottawa Valley

The Ottawa Valley is the valley along the boundary between Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec along the Ottawa River. The valley is the transition between the Saint Lawrence Lowlands and the Canadian Shield...

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History

The area that is today Kanata Lakes was originally part of the Township of March

March Township, Ontario

March Township is a geographic township and former municipality originally part of Carleton County in eastern Ontario, Canada. It is currently part of the City of Ottawa...

, and was first settled by Europeans in the early nineteenth century. One site dating from this era is Pinhey's Point

Horaceville, Ontario

Horaceville is a historic site located on the Ottawa River in eastern Ontario, Canada, owned and operated by the City of Ottawa. This location is also known as Pinhey's Point Historic Site. The site consists of of park land, a stone manor house, two barns, and several stone ruins. The manor house...

. It remained mainly agricultural until the 1960s when it became the site of heavy development. Modern Kanata is largely the creation of Bill Teron, a developer and urban planner who purchased 4000 acres (16.2 km²) of rural land and set about building a model community. The lands around the Kanata golf course formed the initial core of Kanata Lakes when it was developed years later.

Currently the KNL consortium, consisting of Urbandale and Richcraft, are clear-cutting two square kilometres of the Beaver Pond Forest to facilitate further development of Kanata Lakes.

Notable buildings and institutions

• The Kanata Recreation Complex (although not technically within the boundaries of Kanata Lakes)
• The Kanata Centrum power centre; together with adjacent developments, Ottawa's third largest shopping centre.
• AMC Kanata 24 Theatres
  AMC Theatres
  AMC Theatres , officially known as AMC Entertainment, Inc., is the second largest movie theater chain in North America with 5,325 screens, second only to Regal Entertainment Group, and one of the United States's four national cinema chains AMC Theatres (American Multi-Cinema), officially known as...
  
  , the largest movie theatre in Ottawa.

Sports

Kanata Lakes has several sports associations with regular activities, the most visible being the large golf clubs (one of them right in the middle of the town), the sailing club and the bicycle club. There is also Kanata Soccer, March kanata Tennis club, the Kanata blazers' hockey and March Kanata figure skating club.

Schools

Major schools in Kanata Lakes include:

• All Saints Catholic High School
  All Saints Catholic High School (Ottawa)
  For other schools with a similar name see All Saints High School.All Saints Catholic High School, opened September 2002, is a secondary school in Kanata, Ontario, a district of Ottawa. The school is located in the Kanata North area of Kanata Lakes and serves the communities of Kanata and West...
  
  
• Earl of March Secondary School