Bay Ward or Ward 7 (French: Quartier Baie) is a municipal ward in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada represented on Ottawa City Council. 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 is the Queensway while the northern border is the Ottawa River. The ward makes up the northern portion of the federal and provincial riding of Ottawa West—Nepean.
The ward contains a number of neighbourhoods, with quite diverse populations. Some of the neighbourhoods in the ward are Bayshore, Woodroffe North, Michele Heights, Glabar Park, Lincoln Heights, Britannia, and Crystal Beach. The westernmost part of the ward also contains a large section of the Greenbelt. Some of these neighbourhoods, especially those by the Ottawa River are quite wealthy. However, there are also many much poorer parts of the ward with many residents living in high-density apartments. The ward also contains some of Ottawa's highest concentrations of recent immigrants.
From the creation of the new city of Ottawa in 2001 to 2010 the ward was represented by former MPP Alex Cullen, who was considered to be one of the most left-wing members of city council. However, Bay Ward has voted Liberal in recent provincial elections and Conservative federally. In the 2003 and 2006 elections, Cullen faced strong challenges from conservative opponents. In the 2003 election he faced John Blatherwick, while in 2006 he fended off a challenge from high-profile former mayoral candidate Terry Kilrea. In 2010, Cullen was defeated by a Liberal, Mark Taylor.
Bay Ward was the home of former mayor Bob Chiarelli, and he won the area by large margins in both the 2000 and 2003 mayoral elections. In the 2006 mayoral election, however, the area supported Larry O'Brien and Chiarelli finished third, also behind Alex Munter. In the 2010 mayoral election, Bay Ward swung back to the centre, going for Jim Watson.
The ward is a descendant of Britannia-Richmond Ward, which included the area now in Bay Ward before Ottawa amalgamated in 2001. That ward was created in 1994 as Ward 1 when Britannia Ward merged with Richmond Ward and given the Britannia-Richmond name in 1995. The ward existed on Regional Council as Ward 7 from 1994 until the region dissolved, and was named Bay Ward in 1997. This area was part of Carleton Ward until 1972 when it became Britannia Ward. Richmond Ward was carved out of it in 1980 and existed until merging back with the original ward in 1994.
Following the 2020 Ottawa Ward boundary review, the ward will gain the neighbourhoods of McKellar Heights and McKellar Park.
There are at least Two Major Transit Stations in the Bay Ward. The First is Lincoln Fields Station, by the Kichi Zibi Mikan Parkway. The second is Bayshore Station, On Woodridge Crescent, by Bayshore Mall. Currently, both stations are expected to have a O-Train station for Lines 1 and 3 within a few years.
City councillors Marion Dewar (1973–1974), Britannia Sandy Boyce (1975–1976), Britannia Marlene Catterall (1977–1985), Britannia Ruth Wildgen (1986–1988), Britannia Jim Jones (1989–1991), Britannia Jill Brown (1992–1994), Britannia Ron Kolbus (1995–2000), Britannia-Richmond Alex Cullen (2001–2010), Bay Mark Taylor (2010–2018), Bay Theresa Kavanagh (2018–present), Bay
Election results 1972 Britannia WardCandidateVotes%Marion Dewar 1,367 27.57Sandy Boyce 862 17.39Brian McNally 714 14.40Mike McMullen 566 11.42Ken Creppin 452 9.12Charles Strang 384 7.75Suzanne Saunders 199 4.01Richard MacDonald 198 3.99Gerald Cammy 197 3.97Gary Hugh 19 0.38
1974 Britannia WardCandidateVotes%Sandy Boyce 2,412 41.18Diane Birch 2,203 37.61Maurice Royer 706 12.05Anthony Gray 536 9.15
1976 Britannia WardCandidateVotes%Marlene Catterall 3,041 52.15Sandy Boyce 2,790 47.85
1978 Britannia WardCandidateVotes%Marlene Catterall 5,418 60.08Sandy Boyce 3,600 39.92
1980 Britannia WardCandidateVotes%Marlene Catterall 3,354 80.11Paul MacKay 833 19.89
1982 Britannia WardCandidateVotes%Marlene Catterall 2,840 49.80Paul MacKay 1,487 26.07Terry O'Neill 1,376 24.13
1985 Britannia WardCandidateVotes%Ruth Wildgen 1,310 24.45Jim Jones 1,263 23.57Greg Ross 1,083 20.21Sandra Presley 972 18.14Bud Downing 350 6.53Kurt Orlik 204 3.81Donald Holmes 176 3.28
1988 Britannia WardCandidateVotes%Jim Jones 1,940 40.80Ruth Wildgen 1,928 40.55Geoffrey Sharpe 496 10.43Jenny Lee Lapointe 391 8.22
1991 Britannia WardCandidateVotes%Jill Brown 1,859 33.13Gregory Ross 1,558 27.77Geoffrey Sharpe 831 14.81Jim Jones 665 11.85Clarence S. Dungey 273 4.87Randy McCooey 214 3.81Andy Sammon 211 3.76
1994 Regional council: Ward 7CandidateVotes%Alex Cullen 8,009 64.58Betty-Ann Kealey 3,355 27.05Andy Sammon 1,037 8.36
City council: Ward 1CandidateVotes%Ron Kolbus 4,756 46.13Gregory L. Ross 4,030 39.09Richard Kuzell 1523 14.77
1997
Regional council: Bay WardCandidateVotes%Wendy Byrne3,19929.43Peter Harris3,01727.75Frank Dalton2,04118.77David Morrow1,87117.21Victoria Manson5955.47Douglas Besharah1481.36
City council: Britannia-Richmond WardCandidateVotes%Ron Kolbus 6,506 75.93Jim Jones 1,639 19.13Alphonse Lapointe 423 4.94
2000 City councilCandidateVotes%Alex Cullen7,19148.02Doug Shouldice6,26241.82Jim Jones5723.82Jeff Seeton5503.67Geoffrey Sharpe3992.66
2003 City councilCandidateVotes%Alex Cullen6,71356.74John Blatherwick4,47737.84Don Rivington3943.33Didar Mohamed2482.10
2006
City councilCandidateVotes%Alex Cullen8,39352.69Terry Kilrea6,30339.57 Sherril Noble1,2347.75
2010
City councilCandidateVotes%Mark Taylor 5,394 37.78Alex Cullen 4,323 30.28George Guirguis 1,789 12.53Terry Kilrea 1,164 8.15Shawn Little 903 6.32Oni Joseph 544 3.81Peter Heyck 99 0.69Erik Olesen 61 0.43
2014 City council Candidate Vote % Mark Taylor 5,750 46.75 Alex Cullen 5,276 42.89 George Guirguis 498 4.05 Trevor Robinson 482 3.92 Michael Pastien 151 1.23 Brendan Mertens 143 1.16
Ottawa mayor (Ward results) Candidate Vote % Jim Watson 9,140 76.31 Mike Maguire 2,205 18.41 Anwar Syed 190 1.59 Rebecca Pyrah 141 1.18 Robert White 95 0.79 Darren W. Wood 78 0.65 Bernard Couchman 73 0.61 Michael St. Arnaud 55 0.46
2018 Council candidate Vote % Theresa Kavanagh 6,509 55.17 Don Dransfield 2,104 17.83 Erica Dath 1,793 15.20 Marc Lugert 851 7.21 Trevor Robinson 541 4.59
2022 Council candidate Vote % Theresa Kavanagh 12,398 82.79 Robert Hill 1,659 11.08 Othman Alhusain 919 6.14
References
External links Map of Bay Ward