Vars is a compact rural community[1] in Osgoode Ward in the east end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

[3] Vars has St-Guillaume, a French elementary school, two churches (one Anglican (closed, last service November 18 2024,) one Roman Catholic,) and Alcide Trudeau Park.

When the mill was built the town consisted of a hotel, some stores and approximately 200 people, the majority being English-speaking and of Irish descent.

By 1886, population growth warranted its own post office, lightening the load for postmaster Jack Young, used to delivering mail by horse or snowshoe, depending on the season.

The first maintains that a retired Embrun priest, l’Abbé C. Guillaume, chose to commemorate the village of Vars in France’s Hautes-Alpes region.