Kars, Ontario

Kars is a village on the Rideau River within Rideau-Jock Ward in the city of Ottawa, Ontario.

In 1857, to distinguish it from another settlement called Wellington in Prince Edward County, because mail intended for one often went to the other, the village was renamed Kars in honour of the Turkish town’s valiant stand against Russian troops during the Crimean War.

[1] By 1866, Kars was a post village with a population of 200 of the township of North Gower, on the Rideau River, 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) from the line of the Ottawa and Prescott Railway.

Kars is along the longest uninterrupted section of the River between locks at Long Island in Manotick and Burritts Rapids.

Kars no longer has a summer fair, but a dog show has continued to run at the former fairgrounds site.