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Who to call about Old Ottawa South real estate

For a Craftsman house off Bank Street or a home near the river in Old Ottawa South, one call reaches the agent who covers the area 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 South was: Rideauville, then a streetcar suburb

American and British settlers arrived around 1814, and for decades the area looked more to the Billings estate across the Rideau River than to Ottawa. Shortly after Confederation in 1867 a bridge over the canal opened it to the city, and it was tentatively called Rideauville.

Rideauville became a police village in 1905, and Ottawa annexed it on December 16, 1907. Around 1910 the streetcar reached it, turning around where Brewer Park is now, and the neighbourhood grew quickly. A few names from that history:

• Ottawa South, its name until the 1990s, when “Old” was added to tell it apart from the newer suburbs in the south of the city.
• The OSCAR, the community newspaper, short for Ottawa South Community Association Review.
• The Old Firehall, now a community centre.

Why Bank Street and the Mayfair are the heart of the neighbourhood

The neighbourhood’s shops line Bank Street: pubs, antique stores the street is known for, and the Mayfair Theatre. A 2004 redesign buried the overhead power lines, added brick to the sidewalks and set metal maple leaves into them, each inscribed with the name of a Canadian folk musician.

The Mayfair opened on December 5, 1932, and is Ottawa’s oldest active movie theatre. It is a Spanish Revival atmospheric cinema and runs as an independent repertory house, and it was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act in 2008.

South on Bank Street, Billings Bridge crosses the Rideau River. The first bridge there was built in 1830 and the current one in 1916.

Parks and schools in Old Ottawa South

Brewer Park is on the north bank of the Rideau River at Bronson Avenue, across from Carleton University, where the old streetcar used to turn around. It holds:

• A speed skating oval and two smaller hockey rinks in winter, and the Brewer arena.
• Three soccer fields, three baseball diamonds, play structures and a mini waterpark.
• A community garden with a geodesic dome greenhouse, with Brewer Pool, an indoor pool, beside the park.

Hopewell Avenue Public School teaches junior kindergarten to grade 8. Confirm the school for a specific address with the board before you offer.

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Buy or sell in Old Ottawa South with The Reality Group

Old Ottawa South houses are about a century old and most have been added to, each in its own way, so we compare a house with recent sales of similar age and size nearby and look at what has been updated, 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 South 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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