Alex Ram

Riverview is home to a number of hospitals, thanks to its central location. These include the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and the Ottawa General Hospital. The Riverside Hospital is also nearby, and the neighbourhood is also home to the National Defense Medical Centre, the Ottawa Rehabilitation Centre and the Perley and Rideau Veteran's Health Centre.

Parks in Riverview include Dale Park, Hurdman Park, Balena Park, Riverveiw Park, Coronation Park and Hutton Park. Many of these are maintained by the Riverview Park Community Association.

Riverview is home to a diversity of schools. There is one French elementary school (Lycée Claudel), a French High School (Franco Cité), an English alternative education school (Riverview), an English public school (Vincent Massey), and a private Montessori school. There are also five churches a fire hall, a community centre (Dempsey) two shopping areas and a number of parks. Riverview is also served by three transitway stations: Hurdman, Lycée Claudel and Smyth. Riverview is home to one of the oldest shopping centres in Ottawa, in the Alta Vista Shopping Centre. Riverview is also home to the St-Laurent-Russell Shopping Centre. The neighbourhood is served by the Dempsey Community Centre and is home to the Ottawa Life Sciences Technology Park.

The Riverview Park Community Association produced a free monthly newspaper for the neighbourhood, called ''Riverviews''. When Riverviews stopped being published in December 2008, the "Riverview Park Review" became the community's new independent newspaper.


Adapted from the Wikipedia article Riverview, Ottawa, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki