By Phil Jenkins, Ottawa Citizen, October 20, 2014
Drive – or bicycle – south, east or west out of the mass of Ottawa’s downtown
real estate and, quite quickly, you’ll cross a border. The one between the urban
and rural territories, between concrete and soil, commuters and corn. Since the
Great Amalgamation of 2001, if you were a schoolchild with an assignment to make
a model of Ottawa, there would be a grey bib of urbanness below the blue river,
then a belt of green, then large blobs of suburban beige, and then a mosaic of
yellow/green fields out to the city limits, with occasional pools of redbrick
and siding villages. via
Jenkins: Ottawa, the rural city | Ottawa Citizen.