1 22 Oak Street (and neighbourhood), OttawaIndex

If there is anything missing here, let me know. -Ian!

2 Description of 22 Oak StreetIndex

Refer to the map at the bottom of this page. Look for the purple arrow. Our house is three storeys, brick with green trim, third from the west end of the street. The large leaning tree that used to be in front of our house was cut down and not even the stump remains.

Oak Street is a cul-de-sac just one block long, on the west side of Preston St. It runs west from Preston Street, one long block south of Somerset Street West. Houses are only on the south side of the street; Plouffe Park is on the north side. Oak Street is:

• just south of the Plant Bath and Plouffe Park
• a few blocks north of Preston Hardware and The Gladstone Theatre
• one block south of Lucianos Italian foods
• right across from the Preston Street Fire Station.

3 Google Maps – 22 Oak StreetIndex

The two links below lead to Google Maps to 22 Oak Street. Open a map and click on “Directions” and enter where you are to get directions to 22 Oak Street from where you are. Use the icons at the top of the directions on the left to change whether you want Driving, Public Transit, or Walking directions. Use the “zoom” scale to adjust the map to the scale you wish to use.

• 22 Oak Street – Google Maps wide zoom (showing southern Ontario and north-eastern USA)
• 22 Oak Street – Google Maps narrow zoom (showing neighbourhood)

Open a map and click on “Directions” to get directions from where you are.

4 Public Transit – 22 Oak Street in Little ItalyIndex

22 Oak Street is a 1.1 km walk south from the Ottawa Pimisi or Bayview O-Train LRT stations.

22 Oak Street is a long 6.5 km walk west from the Ottawa inter-city Train Station (VIA Rail) on Tremblay Rd. From the VIA station, most people take the O-Train LRT to Pimisi Station and walk the 1 km from there – about 30 minutes total.

Google says it takes 45 minutes to walk downtown to Arts Court (2 Daly Avenue) from 22 Oak Street. OCTranspo Public Transit takes 18-25 minutes.

Ottawa bus stops have phone numbers. You can call them to find out when the next bus is coming, e.g. dial 613-560-1000-8004 for stop #8004. OCTranspo also has a trip planner that gives you the best bus route at any time of the day:

• OCTranspo

You can open a Google Map showing bus stops near any address in town.

• The #8 bus runs north/south along Preston St. past Oak St. For the bus travelling northward along Preston, at the top (north end) of Preston Street, the #8 goes east to Booth and passes the O-Train LRT Pimisi station on its way into Gatineau across the river. The northbound (headed to Gatineau) #8 stop nearest to Oak Street is stop number 8004 on Preston Street at Anderson, one block north of Oak St. For the return trip, the #8 bus coming south from Pimisi, along Preston St., has a stop southbound on Preston St. right at the end of Oak Street with stop number 2360.
• The #11 bus runs east/west along Somerset West, one block north. The eastbound (“Waller”, headed downtown) #11 stop is stop number 2219 on Somerset just east of Preston. The return westbound (“Bayshore”, headed west) stop is also right at Somerset just east of Preston with stop number 2218.
• The #14 bus runs east/west along Gladstone, four blocks south. The eastbound (headed downtown) #14 stop is stop number 6665 on Gladstone just east of Preston. The return stop is also right at Gladstone and Preston with stop number 8949.

The nearest three O-Train LRT stops are at Corso Italia (Line 2: north-south line) on Gladstone a block west of Preston (about 600 metres from 22 Oak), Pimisi (Line 1: east-west line) on Booth just north Albert, and Bayview (Both Line 1 and Line 2) on Albert at the north end of the north-south O-Train LRT Line 2. Either Line 1 train station stop is a 1.1km (10 minute) walk from 22 Oak Street.

5 Driving and Parking – 22 Oak StreetIndex

Driving: In a car, driving to Ottawa eastbound (coming from Perth/Toronto/Sudbury) on Highway 417, the nearest exit from 417 is “Rochester” [121B]. Driving to Ottawa westbound (coming from Montreal/Cornwall), use the 417 exit at “Bronson” [121A].

Parking: There is limited free on-street car parking on the north side of Oak Street. On weekdays, the time is limited to one hour from 07h00 to 17h30 (7am to 5:30pm). Weekends and nights are unlimited and free. There is pay-and-display car parking on Preston St. We can sometimes arrange parking with our neighbours.

6 Neighbourhood: Restaurants, Food, Banks, Etc.Index

Do a Google search for: Stores near 22 Oak Street, Ottawa, ON

Our neighbourhood is near Little Italy (Preston Street) and Chinatown (Somerset Street West). Preston Street south of Oak Street is lined with Italian restaurants; Somerset West east of Preston Street is lined with Asian restaurants.

The area is lacking North American grocery stores. The nearest Independent Grocer is 12 blocks away at 296 Bank Street (at Somerset). Luciano’s Italian Foods is two blocks north at 114 Preston Street. The Kowloon Market has fresh vegetables (mostly Asian) six blocks east at 712 Somerset West.

There is a convenience store Preston Food Market three blocks north at 71 Preston Street. We have an East Indian Food store (samosas!) Super Sweet Mart at 237 Rochester, four blocks south of Somerset.

Bank Scotiabank is 12 blocks south at 425 Preston. Bank CIBC (includes a Simplii Financial ATM) is 14 blocks south at 829 Carling Avenue (at Preston).

Preston Hardware (a medium-size independent hardware store) is four blocks south at 248 Preston Street.

7 22 Oak Street Map – Look for the Purple ArrowIndex

• Use a different map than this one. This one is decades out-of-date.
• For more detailed maps, use the Google Maps links above.
• To find Oak Street, look for the Purple Arrow below!
• This old map is completely missing the O Train lines, and DUKE ST does not exist as shown.
• Click on the map to get a slightly larger version of the same map.