Greely, Ontario: the village guide

Greely is the village next door to Manotick: 8 km east along Mitch Owens Road, about 9,000 people on half-acre-to-two-acre lots, inside the City of Ottawa but on wells, septic and Hydro One. This page is the plain version of what is here — the plaza, the clinic, the schools, the Legion, the carnival — and what is not (a gas station, a bank branch, a bus). The rest of the Greely section lists every shop, doctor, restaurant, contractor and listing site with a phone number.

The Greely section: shops and services · restaurants and takeout · doctors, dentists and vets · community, parks and schools · trades based in Greely · homes for sale. Every business listed has a page of its own with its phone number.

Where Greely is, and what it is

Greely is a rural village inside the City of Ottawa, about 8 km east of Manotick along Mitch Owens Road and 25 km south of downtown, strung along Bank Street (Highway 31) between Findlay Creek and Metcalfe. Its postal area is K4P, the ward is Osgoode (Ward 20), and it has been part of Ottawa since the 2001 amalgamation, before which it was in Osgoode Township. The village is bounded roughly by Mitch Owens Road to the north, Manotick Station Road to the west, Snake Island Road to the south and Sale Barn and Greys Creek roads to the east. Around 9,000 people live here — the 2011 census counted 9,049 within the village boundary, and it has grown since — which makes it larger than Manotick by population and, by land area, the largest of Ottawa's rural villages.

What it is, in plain terms: an estate-lot bedroom community. Almost every house is a detached home on a half-acre to two-acre lot, most of them built since 1990, on a private well and a septic system, with a garage that fits the two cars a household here needs. The old village core is a few streets around Parkway Road and Meadow Drive — the community centre, library, post office, the Anglican church, the elementary school, a pizzeria and a corner store — and the commercial centre is now the Greely Village Centre plaza at Bank and Parkway, where Foodland, the pharmacy, the clinic and the dentists are. The name comes from an 1885 post office, called after the American Arctic explorer Adolphus Greely; before that the crossroads was Rossiter's Corners.

The neighbourhoods

Greely is a collection of subdivisions rather than a grid, and the name on the sign tells you a lot about the house. Sunset Lakes, Woodstream, Water's Edge, South Village, Cedar Lakes, Lakewood Trails and Greely Orchard are the Sunset Lakes Developments communities built from 1993 on, several around reclaimed-pit and stormwater lakes with resident-only beaches, trails and rinks run by owners' associations with an annual fee. Shadow Ridge, off Bank Street north of Mitch Owens, is the newest, with Phoenix Homes selling Phase 2 in 2026. Emerald Links Estates sits around the 27-hole golf course; Greely West is the Manotick Station Road side; Quinn Farm is Bulat Homes' half-acre estate lots off Rangeland Avenue. The homes for sale page puts prices to each.

Services: what the village has and what it does not

The honest list. Greely has a full grocery store (Foodland, with the LCBO Convenience Outlet and the village's only bank machine inside it), a pharmacy, a dollar store, a pet store, a family medical clinic and a by-appointment "walk-in", two dental offices, an optometrist, a physiotherapy clinic, a veterinarian, a kennel, a post office, a Legion, a public library branch, a community centre, an indoor pool, a 27-hole golf course, four fast-food and pizza places and a Sunday market. It does not have a gas station, a bank branch, a Beer Store or standalone LCBO, a bakery, a coffee-shop chain, a hardware store, a commercial gym, a hospital or a lab: for those the answer is Findlay Creek (10 minutes north), Manotick (10 minutes west) or Metcalfe (5 minutes south), and the shops page says which for each. Trades are the exception — Greely has more electricians, pavers, landscapers and builders based in it than Manotick does, listed on the Greely trades page.

Utilities, and the rural facts of life

Three things surprise people who move here from the city. Electricity is Hydro One, not Hydro Ottawa — Greely is one of the pockets of the amalgamated city still on the provincial utility, which matters when the power goes out (outages: 1-800-434-1235 and the Hydro One map, not Hydro Ottawa's). There is no municipal water or sewer: every house is on a drilled well and a septic bed, so the well, water treatment and septic pages apply to Greely exactly as they do to Manotick, and Ottawa Public Health will test your well water free. Natural gas is patchy: Enbridge serves some streets, and many homes heat with propane or oil, which is why a heat-pump conversation comes up at every dinner party. Internet is Rogers cable on the denser subdivisions (they market 2 Gbps in Greely), Bell FTTN or wireless elsewhere, and Starlink on the far lots; check by address, not by village. Waste collection is the City's normal green-bin, blue/black-box and bi-weekly garbage service — look up your day on ottawa.ca, because the calendar changed on 30 March 2026.

Getting around

There is, for practical purposes, no transit. OC Transpo runs one Shopper Route, the 304, on Thursdays only — Metcalfe, Greely and Osgoode to South Keys and Billings Bridge, arriving about 10 am and leaving at 2:30 pm, free — and that is the whole service. The nearest O-Train Line 2 stations are Leitrim and Bowesville, 10–15 minutes north on Bank Street with park-and-ride. By car: downtown is about 30 minutes off-peak and 45 in rush hour up Bank Street, the airport about 15 minutes, Findlay Creek's big-box shopping 10, Manotick 10 along Mitch Owens Road. The Osgoode Link Pathway, the 18-km gravel rail trail from Leitrim to Osgoode, runs along the west side of the village for cycling, walking and, in winter, skiing and snowmobiles.

Schools

Two public elementary schools and a Catholic one serve the village, and the high schools are in Metcalfe and Manotick. Greely Elementary (OCDSB) is on Parkway Road in the village core; Castor Valley Elementary (OCDSB), on Greys Creek Road at the east edge, is the larger K–8 with early French immersion; St. Mary Catholic School is on Bank Street at the north edge, feeding St. Mark Catholic High School in Manotick. Public high-school students go to Osgoode Township High School in Metcalfe, founded 1920, about 10 minutes east. There is no French-language school in the village; both French boards bus to Findlay Creek and Ottawa South. Addresses and phones are on the community page.

Community life

The village runs on the Greely Community Association, a volunteer body based at the community centre that puts on the Greely Winter Carnival — four days in late January or early February, running since 1972, with sleigh rides, a sledding hill, a firefighters' pancake breakfast and a spaghetti dinner — and Canada Day in Greely at Andy Shields Park with fireworks at 10 pm. The Greely & District Legion, Branch 627 on Mitch Owens Road is the hall for everything from euchre to the car and truck show. The Greely Good Market on Bank Street is the Sunday market from May to the fall. The current ward councillor, Isabelle Skalski, elected in the June 2025 by-election, was the association's president before that. The nearest thing to a local paper is the Manotick Messenger, which covers Greely under its own tag. All of it, with dates, is on the community page.

Greely and Manotick

The two villages are eight kilometres apart on Mitch Owens Road and share more than they compete for: the same ward, the same fire district, the same rural realities of wells and septic, the same contractors, and, from 2026, the same semi-pro hockey team ten minutes away. Manotick has the main street, the restaurants, the mill, the river and the hardware store; Greely has the bigger lots, the newer houses, the golf course and, since the Village Centre opened, its own grocery and medical services. Many households use both daily. That is why this site covers Greely as a section rather than a rival: the trade pages already served Greely addresses, and now the village has its own shops, medical, restaurants, community, trades and homes for sale pages.

The estate end. Greely’s golf-course subdivision, Emerald Links, is Patterson-owned and runs from one-acre phases around the fairways to a 2022 release of two-acre lots off Manotick Station Road, one road over from Manotick’s Rideau Forest — see Emerald Links and the estate lots.

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