page_title: Vanier, Ontario
section_title: Present
hierarchical_section_title: Vanier, Ontario / Present
caption_attribution_description: English: Grotte des Lourdes in the Vanier neighbourhood of Ottawa.
context_page_description: Vanier is a neighbourhood in the Rideau-Vanier Ward of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's east end. Historically francophone and working class, the neighbourhood was a separate city until being amalgamated into Ottawa in 2001. It no longer has a majority francophone population. By 2012 its francophone population had shrunk to less than 40% from 63% in the early 1980s. The neighbourhood is located on the east bank of the Rideau River, across from the neighbourhoods of Lowertown and Sandy Hill, and just south of Rockcliffe Park, New Edinburgh, Lindenlea, and Manor Park. To the east of Vanier are the suburbs of Gloucester. Vanier has a relatively small area with a high population density.
context_section_description: Starting with an area closer to the Rideau River, Vanier is increasingly considered a target for gentrification.  It is one of the last relatively inexpensive Ottawa neighbourhoods with a desirable location next to downtown.  The neighbourhood is becoming increasingly popular among young families thanks to the only publicly funded school in Ottawa based on Waldorf education, Trille des Bois, excellent standard publicly funded schools and an active community association.
  Vanier offers a wide choice of retail shops, strip malls, eateries, and bars.  Both subsidized and self-financed housing is available here, with several existing and proposed upscale condominiums and infill developments. The population on the western edge of Vanier closer to the Rideau River, especially the Kingsview Park neighbourhood, is among the more affluent.
  Like nearby Lowertown, Ottawa's Vanier neighbourhood is home to a number of French-speaking immigrants from Africa and elsewhere. It is also the site of the urban Maple Sugar Festival (Festival des Sucres) held in spring, and home to an outdoor Catholic shrine, the Grotte de Lourdes.
  The neighbourhood is represented by one federal and one provincial riding, both called Ottawa—Vanier, and is represented by MP Mona Fortier (Liberal) federally and MPP Lucille Collard (Ontario Liberal) provincially. It is one of the staunchly Liberal federal ridings in Canada, having voted for the party consistently since the riding's creation in 1935.
caption: Outdoor Catholic shrine, Grotte de Lourdes in the Vanier neighbourhood of Ottawa
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