High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wellington Street (French: Rue Wellington) is an important street in Ottawa, Canada most notable for being one of the first two streets laid out in Bytown in 1826 (the other being Rideau Street. It is the street upon which Parliament Hill, the Bank of Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the national library Library and Archives Canada are located. The street runs to the west from the Rideau Canal from the juncture where Rideau Street extends to the east. In the downtown it is the farthest north of the east-west running streets, being just south of the Ottawa River.