Kitchissippi Ward is a city ward in 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...

, Canada

Canada

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. It gets its name from the Algonquin

Algonquin language

Algonquin is either a distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect. It is spoken, alongside French and to some extent English, by the Algonquin First Nations of Quebec and Ontario...

 word for Great River. The ward is slightly west of downtown

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...

, and covers the neighbourhoods of Broadview, Champlain Park, Civic Hospital

Civic Hospital

Civic Hospital is a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Canada. It is named after the Ottawa Civic Hospital, which is located in the neighbourhood.Civic Hospital is bounded on the west by Island Park Drive, on the north by Queensway, on the east by the O-Train and on the south by Carling Avenue.The...

, Hampton Park

Hampton Park, Ottawa

Hampton Park is a park and neighbourhood in the City of Ottawa, in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is directly north of the Queensway at Island Park Drive. It is considered a sub-neighbourhood of the Westboro area. It was first developed in 1910 by J.C. Brennan who shares his name with Brennan...

, Highland Park

Highland Park, Ottawa

Highland Park is a sub-neighbourhood of Westboro, in the City of Ottawa, in the Canadian province of Ontario, located between Dovercourt Avenue and Richmond Road, Churchill Avenue and McKellar Park...

, Hintonburg

Hintonburg

Hintonburg is a neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is a historically working-class, predominately residential neighbourhood, with a commercial strip located along Wellington Street West, located to the west of downtown...

, Island Park

Island Park, Ottawa

Island Park is a neighbourhood in west Ottawa, Canada. It is bounded on the north by Scott Street, on the west by its namesake, Island Park Drive, on the south by The Queensway and on the east by Parkdale Avenue. The Island Park Community Association just covers homes on Island Park Drive.The...

, McKellar Heights, McKellar Park

McKellar Park

McKellar Park is a park and sub-neighbourhood of Westboro, in the City of Ottawa, in the province of Ontario that lies to the North of the Queensway. It is considered a trendy and expensive area, being close to the Westboro Village....

, Mechanicsville, Westboro Beach, Westboro, and Wellington Street West

Wellington Street West

Wellington Street West is a 4-lane arterial road west of downtown Ottawa, Ontario and is not to be confused with the principal Wellington Street in downtown Ottawa. It begins at Bayview Road as a westbound one-way street until it merges with Somerset Street to attain its full right-of-way...

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As of the 2010 election on October 25th,2010, the ward is represented by Katherine Hobbs

Katherine Hobbs

Katherine Hobbs is the Ottawa city councillor of Kitchissippi Ward. She won the ward in the Ottawa municipal election, 2010, defeating the incumbent Christine Leadman.Hobbs lives in the Westboro neighbourhood of the city, and was raised in Ottawa...

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The ward was created in 1994 from parts of Queensboro Ward

Queensboro Ward

Queensboro Ward is a former municipal ward in the city of Ottawa, Canada.In 1950, what is now Ottawa's Westboro neighbourhood was annexed from Nepean Township. This area would be named Westboro Ward for just two years. In 1952, the size of Ottawa City Council was decreased, and the area became...

, Richmond Ward

Bay Ward

Bay Ward is a municipal ward in Ottawa, Canada. It covers much of the western portion of the old city of Ottawa as well as some portions of what was once Nepean. The ward runs from Sherbourne and Maitland in the east to March Road in the west. The southern border in the Queensway while the northern...

 and Elmdale Ward

Elmdale Ward

Elmdale Ward was a municipal ward in the city of Ottawa, Canada.The ward was created in 1929 when it was split off from Dalhousie Ward. It existed until 1994, when it was merged with Queensboro Ward to become Kitchissippi Ward...

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City councillors

1. Joan Wong (1994-1997)
2. Shawn Little
   Shawn Little
   Shawn Little is a former City Councillor in Ottawa, Canada, for the urban Kitchissippi Ward, consisting of neighbourhoods west of the city centre. He was born in Ottawa and raised in its Westboro neighbourhood, where he attended Woodroffe Avenue and Broadview Public elementary schools followed by...
   
    (1997-2006)
3. Christine Leadman
   Christine Leadman
   Christine Leadman was a city councillor in Ottawa, Canada. She won the position for Kitchissippi Ward councillor in the 2006 Ottawa municipal election on 13 November 2006 after incumbent Shawn Little dropped out of the race. She only served one term however, losing the 2010 election...
   
    (2006-2010)
4. Katherine Hobbs
   Katherine Hobbs
   Katherine Hobbs is the Ottawa city councillor of Kitchissippi Ward. She won the ward in the Ottawa municipal election, 2010, defeating the incumbent Christine Leadman.Hobbs lives in the Westboro neighbourhood of the city, and was raised in Ottawa...
   
    (2010-present)

Population data

The Ward's estimated population will be 38,900 in 2006. At the Canada 2001 Census

Canada 2001 Census

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 it had 36,795 people.

Languages (mother tongue)

1. English
   English language
   English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
   
   : 54.5%
2. French
   French language
   French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
   
   : 15.6%
3. Arabic
   Arabic language
   Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
   
   : 7.9%
4. Spanish
   Spanish language
   Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
   
   : 1.8%
5. Chinese
   Chinese language
   The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
   
   : 1.1% (inc. Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese)
6. Italian
   Italian language
   Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
   
   : 1.1%

Religion

1. Roman Catholic: 36.2%
2. No religion: 21.4%
3. United Church of Canada
   United Church of Canada
   The United Church of Canada is a Protestant Christian denomination in Canada. It is the largest Protestant church and, after the Roman Catholic Church, the second-largest Christian church in Canada...
   
   : 10.2%
4. Anglican: 9.9%
5. Muslim
   Muslim
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   : 3.2%
6. Jewish: 2.6%
7. Presbyterian: 2.5%
8. Buddhist: 1.6%
9. Baptist
   Baptist
   Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
   
   : 1.6%
10. Lutheran: 1.0%

Income

• Average household income: $70,307
• Average income (male): $46,904
• Average income (female): $33,443

Ottawa municipal election, 2010

Ottawa municipal election, 2010

The Ottawa municipal election was contested on October 25, 2010 to elect the mayor of Ottawa, Ottawa City Council and the Ottawa-Carleton Public and Catholic School Boards...

Candidate	Votes	%
Katherine Hobbs Katherine Hobbs Katherine Hobbs is the Ottawa city councillor of Kitchissippi Ward. She won the ward in the Ottawa municipal election, 2010, defeating the incumbent Christine Leadman.Hobbs lives in the Westboro neighbourhood of the city, and was raised in Ottawa...	6116	44.18
Christine Leadman Christine Leadman Christine Leadman was a city councillor in Ottawa, Canada. She won the position for Kitchissippi Ward councillor in the 2006 Ottawa municipal election on 13 November 2006 after incumbent Shawn Little dropped out of the race. She only served one term however, losing the 2010 election...	5540	40.02
Daniel Stringer	2186	15.79

Ottawa municipal election, 2006

Ottawa municipal election, 2006

The 2006 Ottawa municipal election was held on November 13, 2006, in Ottawa, Canada, to elect the mayor of Ottawa, Ottawa City Council and the Ottawa-Carleton Public and Catholic School Boards. The election was one of many races across the province of Ontario...

Candidate	Votes	%
Christine Leadman Christine Leadman Christine Leadman was a city councillor in Ottawa, Canada. She won the position for Kitchissippi Ward councillor in the 2006 Ottawa municipal election on 13 November 2006 after incumbent Shawn Little dropped out of the race. She only served one term however, losing the 2010 election...	5949	41.12
Gary Ludington	4571	31.59
Vicky Smallman	3576	24.72
Daniel Narwa	372	2.57

Dropped Out

• Daniel Stringer http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/OttawaAndRegion/2006/08/08/1723993-sun.html
• Shawn Little http://ottawa.ca/elections/nominated_en.html

Debates

• Highland Park/McKellar Park debate, Nov 5th 2006. Dovercourt Recreation Centre, 411 Dovercourt Ave (watch online: Part 1, Part 2)
• Community Association debate, Nov 9th 2006. St. Francois d'Assise Church, Wellington and Fairmont (watch online: Part 1, Part 2)

Ottawa municipal election, 2003

Ottawa municipal election, 2003

The Ottawa municipal election of 2003 was held in Ottawa, Canada, to elect the city's mayor, City Council, and school trustees for the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The vote was held on November 10, 2003...

City council
Candidate	Votes	%
Shawn Little Shawn Little Shawn Little is a former City Councillor in Ottawa, Canada, for the urban Kitchissippi Ward, consisting of neighbourhoods west of the city centre. He was born in Ottawa and raised in its Westboro neighbourhood, where he attended Woodroffe Avenue and Broadview Public elementary schools followed by...	2907	27.12
Kris Klein	2330	21.74
Gary Ludington	2217	20.68
Linda Davis	1540	14.37
Daniel Stringer	1058	9.87
David McConnell	625	5.83
Les Gangé	42	0.39

Ottawa municipal election, 2000

Ottawa municipal election, 2000

The 2000 City of Ottawa elections were held on November 13, 2000, in Ottawa, Canada. The elections were held for mayor of Ottawa, Ottawa City Council and a number of school trustees. These elections would mark the first for the newly amalgamated city, which now included 10 new municipalities in...

City council
Candidate	Votes	%
Shawn Little Shawn Little Shawn Little is a former City Councillor in Ottawa, Canada, for the urban Kitchissippi Ward, consisting of neighbourhoods west of the city centre. He was born in Ottawa and raised in its Westboro neighbourhood, where he attended Woodroffe Avenue and Broadview Public elementary schools followed by...	5721	47.32
Linda Davis	4845	40.07
Ray Kostuch	1525	12.61

1997 elections

City council
Candidate	Votes	%
Shawn Little Shawn Little Shawn Little is a former City Councillor in Ottawa, Canada, for the urban Kitchissippi Ward, consisting of neighbourhoods west of the city centre. He was born in Ottawa and raised in its Westboro neighbourhood, where he attended Woodroffe Avenue and Broadview Public elementary schools followed by...	2,968	35.03
Paul Copeland	1,809	21.35
Andre Vertes	1,605	18.94
Brenda Parris	851	10.04
Linda Kitchikeesic Juden	822	9.70
Michael Kostiuc	253	2.99
Michael Bartholomew	165	1.95

Regional council
Candidate	Votes	%
Linda Davis	4,440	49.84
Joan Wong	3,779	42.42
Diana Brebner Diana Brebner Diana Brebner was a Canadian poet.-Life:She is the eldest daughter of Dutch immigrants; she grew up in a suburb of Montreal, Quebec...	690	7.74

1994 elections

City council
Candidate	Votes	%
Joan Wong (X)	5,052	46.03
Shawn Little Shawn Little Shawn Little is a former City Councillor in Ottawa, Canada, for the urban Kitchissippi Ward, consisting of neighbourhoods west of the city centre. He was born in Ottawa and raised in its Westboro neighbourhood, where he attended Woodroffe Avenue and Broadview Public elementary schools followed by...	3,643	33.19
David Goldstein	2,281	20.78

Regional council
Candidate	Votes	%
Linda Davis	4,071	37.64
Marian Lothian	3,579	33.09
Art Pope	3,166	29.27

External links

• 2001 Census
• Map of Kitchissippi Ward