Highland Park (Ottawa)

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Highland Park is a sub-neighborhood in the Westboro neighborhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located in the south end of Westboro between Dovercourt Ave. and Carling Ave. It is a prominently upper-class area that contains some large luxury homes along Dovercourt and a large number of middle-class low-rise apartment bulidings closer to Carling.

Nepean High School is a prominent part of the community as is Highland Park itself which has a tennis court, baseball diamond and field which can be used for football or soccer.

The Highland Park area is part of the Ottawa West—Nepean riding federally, which has voted for the Conservative Party for the past decade. The last federal Liberal to hold to hold the riding was Marlene Caterall in 1997.