Wellington Street
Wellington Street is an important street in Ottawa, Canada most notable for being the street upon which the Parliamentary Precinct is located. The street begins at the Rideau Canal, it is called Rideau Street on the other side of the canal. In downtown it is the furthest north of the east-west running streets being just south of the Ottawa River.
A number of other notable government structures including the Supreme Court of Canada and the National Library of Canada are located just west of the parliament buildings. Further west the street becomes less spectacular running by the Lebreton Flats and into Westboro.
The street is named after the Duke of Wellington. A number of proposals have been made to name it after something more Canadian, but this has not come to pass. After the death of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau renaming it after him was raised as a possibility, but this was not undertaken.
See also: List of Ottawa roads
