Party Rentals and Decor in Stittsville
Stittsville, Ward 6
One name, two very different building eras
Stittsville took its name from Jackson Stitt, first postmaster when the post office opened in 1854, and for most of its life it was a Goulbourn Township village rather than part of Ottawa. Amalgamation changed that in 2001. Today it is Ward 6 of the City of Ottawa, with Hazeldean Road, Stittsville Main Street, Fernbank Road and Carp Road as the routes everything runs on and Highway 417 along the northern edge.
Very little of the old village survived the Carleton County fire of 1870, which burned more than 250,000 acres from Ottawa through to Smiths Falls and Carleton Place. What stands from the era after it is specific and short: the Bradley/Craig barn at 590 Hazeldean Road, dated 1873, and Green’s Hotel at 1510 Stittsville Main Street, built in either 1890 or 1894 depending on which record you follow.
The rest is recent, and unusually well documented. Ward 6 councillor Glen Gower publishes a decade-by-decade map of when each part of Stittsville was built, which is why this page can be specific where most area pages wave at “established neighbourhoods”. Fringewood and the Main Street corridor predate 1980. Wyldewood, Crossing Bridge and Amberwood went up between 1980 and 1991. Bryanston Gate, Forest Creek and Amberlakes followed in the 1990s, then Jackson Trails, Fairwinds and Timbermere in the 2000s, then Blackstone, Potter’s Key, Fernbank Crossing, Westwood, Mapleton and Bradley Commons from 2011.
That matters to us for a plain reason. A first birthday in a Fringewood backyard laid out before 1980 and a first birthday in Fernbank Crossing, built inside the last fifteen years, are the same design brief and two completely different load-ins.
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Municipal halls, a Legion, a golf-course dining room
The rooms Stittsville actually books
The bookable rooms that come up here are municipal ones, a Legion hall and a golf-course dining room, rather than a strip of hotel ballrooms. Each of the three behaves differently the moment you start setting up in it.
The City of Ottawa runs rentable halls at the CARDELREC Recreation Complex Goulbourn at 1500 Shea Road and an upstairs hall at the Johnny Leroux Stittsville Community Arena on Warner Colpitts Lane. Rooms of that type give you a rectangular floor, a fixed overhead lighting rig with no dimmer, and a shared corridor to bring everything down. Colour and scale have to carry the room, because the light is not going to help. Our backdrops and florals are all freestanding for exactly these rooms, since nothing gets attached to a municipal ceiling.
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 618 in Stittsville rents its hall out as well. ALE, the Amberwood Lounge and Eatery at 54 Springbrook Drive, is a restaurant and events room on the Amberwood golf course, and arrives with an atmosphere of its own, which usually means less decor rather than more.
The unglamorous half of the job
Side yards, septic beds and where the power is
New-build streets
Everything from 2011 onward is on small lots with narrow side yards and trees too young to give shade. A garden party there is a staging problem before it is a styling problem: what fits through the gate, where the van stops, and whether a balloon arch or column gets carried through assembled or built on the grass. We would rather know in advance.
The older streets
Fringewood, the Main Street corridor and Amberwood Village are forty to fifty years old, with mature trees, wider frontages and more room to work. Amberwood is worth knowing about on its own: Jaric Developments began it in the late 1970s as an adult-lifestyle community designed by architect W.G. Mohaupt, and the houses came first. The clubhouse dates to 1979 and the golf course only opened in 1981.
The corridor exception
Inside the urban boundary Stittsville is on municipal water and sewer. The Carp Road Corridor along the north-west edge is the exception. The City’s community design plan for it states that, apart from certain lands south of Highway 417, the corridor is served by individual wells and septic systems. On a property like that, the constraint on a marquee is the septic bed, not the property line.
Stittsville also drains to the Carp River rather than to the Rideau, through Poole Creek and Feedmill Creek, and Ward 6 was one of the wards named in the City’s review of the west-end flooding of 24 July 2009. None of that decides a colour scheme. It does mean an outdoor event here needs a stated wet-weather plan agreed before the week of, not improvised on the morning.
Coming out from the studio
Fifteen kilometres, and not in a straight line
Our studio is at 99 Ralph Erfle Way in Nepean. Measured on 2026-08-09 from there to Stittsville’s published coordinates, the straight-line distance is about 15 km west-northwest, which puts it nearer to us than Kanata. Straight-line is not drive time, though, and west of Barrhaven the road grid does not run the way the crow does, so the actual trip is longer than the number suggests. We plan the morning around the road, not the map.
Scale is the other reason this is a real service area rather than a line on a page. The 2021 census counts 40,889 people in the Stittsville designated place across 7.74 square kilometres. The larger figure of 52,820 that circulates locally is the ward, including post-census estimates, and the two are not interchangeable. The councillor’s own analysis notes that close to half the population did not live there a decade ago, which is a fair description of who is booking a first birthday or a graduation party in a house nobody has celebrated in yet.
We bring chairs, tables and props as event rentals, and set up birthday and milestone parties the same way here as anywhere else we go. If you are weighing up whether your address is inside the run, the full service area lists every community we deliver to with the distance from this studio to each.
Stittsville specifics
Asked most often out here
Our house is in Blackstone. Can you still get a full setup into the backyard?
Usually yes, but tell us the access route when you book rather than on the day. Anything built from 2011 onward, so Blackstone, Potter's Key, Fernbank Crossing, Westwood, Mapleton and Bradley Commons, sits on a tight lot with a narrow side yard. If a wide arch or a plinth will not clear the gate, we build it in sections in the yard instead of carrying it through assembled. Street parking near the driveway for the unload is the other thing worth checking.
We have booked a City of Ottawa hall in Stittsville. What do you need from us?
The room dimensions, the door we load through, and the access time the City has actually given you. Municipal rooms at places like the CARDELREC Recreation Complex Goulbourn on Shea Road, or the upstairs hall at the Johnny Leroux Stittsville Community Arena, come with overhead lighting you cannot dim and ceilings that are not ours to attach anything to. Everything we bring stands on its own base for that reason.
Our property is on the Carp Road corridor, on a well and septic. Does that change an outdoor setup?
It changes where things can be pegged and where power comes from. The City's Carp Road Corridor plan states the corridor is served by individual wells and septic systems apart from certain lands south of Highway 417, so a stake driven into a septic bed is a real risk rather than a theoretical one. Mark the bed and the well head before we arrive, and tell us which outdoor outlet or generator we are running the lighting from.
Can you set up outdoors at a Stittsville park, such as Village Square Park?
We can, once the permit side is settled between you and the City of Ottawa, which owns the ground. Village Square Park sits at Stittsville Main Street and Abbott Street. What we need to know is practical: how close a vehicle can get for the unload, whether the surface is grass or asphalt underfoot, and whether there is any power on site at all. Assume there is none and we will plan for battery lighting.
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