Ranked shortlist · 10 of 10 farmers markets
Best farmers markets in Ottawa
The 10 most notable farmers markets in Ottawa, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Ottawa Organic Farmers Market
Riverside United Church, 3191 Riverside Dr.
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.355, percentile 100 of 10
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2
ByWard Market District Authority
55 Byward Market Square Fl 2
152 m from Rideau station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.063, percentile 88.89 of 10
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3
Millers' Farm and Market
6158 Rideau Valley Dr N
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.991, percentile 77.78 of 10
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4
Kemptville Farmers Market
200 Sanders St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.947, percentile 66.67 of 10
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5
Manotick Farmers' Market
5527 Dickinson St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.830, percentile 55.56 of 10
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6
Ottawa Farmers' Market
1000 Exhibition Way
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.693, percentile 44.44 of 10
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7
Ottawa Farmers' Market
185 Main St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.661, percentile 33.33 of 10
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8
Ottawa Farmers' Market
579 Byron Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.647, percentile 22.22 of 10
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9
Ottawa Street Markets
1805 Gaspé Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.453, percentile 11.11 of 10
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10
Marché Notre-Dame
330 Rue Notre-Dame
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.361, percentile 0 of 10
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).