The east end

4 neighbourhoods east of the Rideau River. Vanier is the most francophone neighbourhood in the city and its cheapest inner-city address, a kilometre from Parliament Hill. New Edinburgh and Rockcliffe Park hold Rideau Hall, the Prime Minister's official residence at 24 Sussex and most of the ambassadors — the wealthiest square kilometre in Ottawa and one of the quietest. Beacon Hill is 1950s and 1960s subdivision on the escarpment above the river. And Orléans, past the Greenbelt, is a hundred thousand people and the largest francophone suburb outside Quebec.

The east end is where Ottawa's language politics are most visible in ordinary life: French-first schools, French-first services, and in Vanier and Orléans a genuine expectation that you will be served in either language. It is also where the transit story is most frustrating. The Line 1 east extension to Trim — 12.5 kilometres and five stations through the middle of Orléans — has been physically finished and signed for months, and as of August 2026 has no opening date. Until it opens, Orléans commutes by bus on Highway 174, and the value of an address there depends heavily on which side of that eventually you are betting on.