March Road
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March Road is an arterial boulevard in the Kanata section of Ottawa, Ontario.
The road begins at the point where Eagleson Road crosses The Queensway and turns to the west at the Dunrobin turnoff. The road continues past Carp and continues all the way to Almonte, Ontario. It is also known as Ottawa Road #49.
March Road is sometimes referred to as Downtown Kanata, due to its hi-tech industry.
The section near Carling avenue is sometimes referred to as the Canadian version of Silicon Valley, hence the nickname, Silicon Valley North. It is a main thoroughfare with a skyline of office buildings for a city of 100 000. Startup businesses like silicon chip innovators, IP companies, technology parks and microchip design operations occupy the side of the boulevard. It was hit hard by the dot com meltdown of post-2000 which has resulted mass layoffs of a concentrated workforce with university degrees concerning high tech. Due to the absence of failed start-up IP companies, it has resulted in 600,000 square feet of cheap real estate in the once optimistic proud booming high tech city of Kanata.
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