Orleans is big and it’s long. Around 120,000 people spread across 55
square kilometres, running east to west along the Ottawa River from
Convent Glen out to Cardinal Creek. That shape affects the job more than
people expect.
The east end and the west end of Orleans are twenty minutes apart in
traffic, so we route the area as its own block rather than treating it
as one stop on a city-wide run. It’s the reason we can hold a consistent
time slot here instead of giving you a three hour window and hoping.
The housing spans fifty years. Queenswood Heights and Convent Glen came
first in the sixties and seventies, and those homes have the older
bathrooms, original trim and settled floors that go with that age.
Chapel Hill and Fallingbrook followed in the eighties and nineties.
Avalon and Cardinal Creek are recent and still filling in, with the
larger ensuites, glass showers and open kitchens that come with newer
construction. Same postal city, three genuinely different cleans.
Orleans also has a strong French-speaking community, around 30 percent
of residents, and a lot of households where French is the language at
home.
