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  • Like all Community Associations across the country, the BCA is a non-governmental, volunteer-run organization representing residents in a specific neighborhood in order to improve the quality of life for all residents. We aim to increase stewardship of the community, to foster a sense of spirit, pride and participation in Bridlewood through organizing events and activities. We work with the members of the community and municipal, provincial and federal organizations (governmental and non-governmental) to understand and assist with issues that impact our community.

  • We represent the Bridlewood neighbourhoods of Bridlewood, Emerald Meadows, and Monahan Landing.

  • Anyone living in Bridlewood can buy a family membership to become a full voting member of the BCA. Family memberships are $15/year and Senior memberships are $10. Non-resident memberships are also available but these members are not permitted to vote at meetings or to stand for, or elect members to our Board. Every membership comes with a coupon book filled with discounts at area merchants!

  • You can join by buying a membership

  • We meet at the Eva James Memorial Centre at 65 Stonehaven Drive.

  • We have standing availability to meet at the Centre on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 pm except July and August. However, we don’t always scheduled a meeting for those dates. We send an email to our members announcing each meeting.

  • You can the President of the BCA at pres@bridlewood.ca

  • Our volunteers are responsible for making and maintaining the hockey and puddle rinks in our neighbourhoods from December to the end of February. This is weather dependent.

    We are also responsible for the murals at our small kiosk on the TransCanada Trail near the entrance from Laura Dubois Park.

  • Our volunteers run baseball and soccer teams in our Spring Sports Program throughout May and June.

    We also host a social event called the Block Party every June. It features free activities like bingo, bouncy castles, magicians, balloon makers, facepainting and other fun activities. We will have food trucks on hand for families to enjoy a lunch or early supper.

    We run our food drive for the Kanata Food Cupboard in April and offer Halloween and Christmas decoration contests as well as a Valentine’s Day contest. We submit a float in the Kanata Christmas Parade and offer a Pizza Night at Gabriel’s in December.

  • We try to offer information about issues that residents have expressed an interest in such as our session on cybercrime and another regarding community policing.

    We also respond to requests from the community regarding installing crosswalks, upgrading paths, installing fun activities (game boards). We assist with items needing a response from the City of Ottawa such as park maintenance, tree canopy, public garbage cans, etc.

  • In addition to our website, we publish a newsletter and an annual report for our members, an event/activity calendar is available on our website.

  • We would love to have you volunteer! You can do this by emailing our President at pres@bridlewood.ca or by completing our contact form

  • You can email pres@bridlewood.ca

  • Email us or come to a meeting and let us know how you would like to help! Our Board of Directors are elected to either a 1 year or 2 year term and our Annual Membership Meeting that takes place in October every year.

  • We are largely financed by our memberships. The City of Ottawa provides grants for our rink maintenance.

  • Annual Financial Statements are made available at our Annual Membership Meeting in October. Archived documents are available here

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