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Who to call about Old Ottawa East real estate

For a century house off Main Street or a new home in Greystone Village, one call reaches the agent who covers Old Ottawa East for our team.

Call The Reality Group at 613-704-6145 and ask for Megan Stagg, who leads our Ottawa team. Megan was born and raised in Ottawa and is an eXp ICON agent (August 2025 and July 2026). Our clients rate the team 5.0 on Google (read on 2026-10-13), and every agent on the team works through eXp Realty, Brokerage.

What Old Ottawa East was: Archville, then a village of its own

The land between the Rideau Canal and the Rideau River was the northeastern edge of Nepean Township, and the canal, begun in 1826, fixed the neighbourhood’s western edge. When Bytown became the City of Ottawa in 1855, the city stopped at what are now Gladstone and Mann Avenues, which left this area outside it.

In 1873 Archibald Stewart registered Archville West, one of the area’s earliest suburban plans, with the streets now called Greenfield, Montcalm, Havelock, Harvey, Concord and Echo Drive. On December 7, 1888 the county council approved the Village of Ottawa East, which governed itself until Ottawa annexed it in 1907. That history is still on the map:

• Main Street, the central road of Archville, still runs through the middle of the neighbourhood.
• Saint Paul University stands on land east of Main Street sold to the Roman Catholic College of St. Joseph in 1863.
• The southern part of the neighbourhood is sometimes called Rideau Gardens.

How Old Ottawa East connects to the Glebe, downtown and Line 1

Lees station, on O-Train Line 1, the Confederation Line, is south of the Queensway just west of the Rideau River. It serves the Lees Avenue area, part of Old Ottawa East, and the University of Ottawa’s Lees Campus, and Line 1 trains have stopped there since September 14, 2019.

The Flora Footbridge opened that year too, on June 28, 2019: 123 m long and 5 m wide, for walking and cycling, from Clegg Street over Colonel By Drive and the Rideau Canal to Fifth Avenue in the Glebe. It is named after Flora MacDonald.

Main Street and Echo Drive follow a road cut in the 1800s from the Billings Bridge area toward Lower Town, after the canal severed the older routes.

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Buy or sell in Old Ottawa East with The Reality Group

In Old Ottawa East a house on an 1870s street and a new Greystone Village home can be a few blocks apart, so we compare a home only with recent sales of its own kind and age, before you offer and before we price yours.

Buyers start on our buying page and can add Buyer Concierge Services; sellers start with how we sell a home and home staging and Seller Concierge Services. Our team of Ottawa real estate agents works with buyers and sellers in Old Ottawa East and across Ottawa.

Megan Stagg

Real Estate Agent · Founder · Ottawa Team Lead · eXp Realty, Brokerage

Megan leads our Ottawa team. Her bio: “Megan is an Ottawa-born and raised real estate professional with a deep understanding of the local market and a passion for helping clients make confident, informed decisions.”

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