Tunney's Pasture

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The R.H. Coats Building at Tunney's Pasture
The R.H. Coats Building at Tunney's Pasture

Tunney's Pasture is an area within the City of Ottawa, Ontario, that is exclusively developed for Canada's federal government buildings. It is bordered by Scott Street to the south, Parkdale Avenue to the east, the Ottawa River Parkway to the north and Northwestern Avenue to the west. While strictly speaking it is confined to this area, people living in the vicinity of it will often call their neighbourhood Tunney's Pasture.

Before the development in the early 1950s, this area was, as the name still indicates, a farmer's pasture and was named after its owner.

The following federal ministries and agencies have offices in Tunney's Pasture:

  • Statistics Canada - occupying whole or part of:
  • Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada - occupying whole or part of:
    • Brooke Claxton Building (Building 9)
    • Jeanne Mance Building (Building 19)
    • Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (Building 6)
    • Health Protection Building (Building 7)
    • Environmental Health Building (Building 8)
    • Building 12
    • Sir Frederick G Banting Research Centre (Building 22)
    • Some offices in the Main Statistics Building (Building 3)
  • Library and Archives Canada - occupying whole or part of:
    • General Records Centre (Building 15)
    • Personnel Records Centre (Building 18)
  • Industry Canada - occupying whole or part of:
    • Standards Lab (Building 4)
  • Department of National Defence (Canada) - occupying whole or part of:
    • Building 16

Other buildings:

  • Finance Building (Building 2)
  • Finance Annex (Building 14)
  • Building 23
  • Central Heating and Cooling Plant

Demolished buildings:

  • Virus Laboratory
  • Atomic Energy of Canada Building
  • Eldorado Nuclear Building

The complex is served by Tunney's Pasture Station on the transitway.

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