businesses to service the community. Rockland has local outlets of major chains like A&W, Boston Pizza, Tim Hortons, Canadian Tire, Subway, Dollarama, Food Basics, Giant Tiger, Home Hardware, Your Independent Grocer, Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), McDonald's, Mark's Work Wearhouse, 2Networkit.com Inc., Shoppers Drug Mart, SonXPlus, Roch Drouin Auto Repair, St-Hubert, Gabriel's Pizza, POP Shoes, RE/MAX, TSC and Walmart. Leisure Rockland is home to a newly constructed Recreation Centre. The centre houses the Rockland Library, the largest YMCA in the Ottawa area (with indoor swimming pool, state-of-the-art gymnasium, numerous children's/youth/family/senior programs) and theatre. On July 8, 2009, the Canadian and Ontario governments jointly announced funding for the construction of a new sporting event and training center in Rockland. The centre will help meet the sports and recreational needs of the City of Clarence-Rockland and Eastern Ontario by providing two NHL-size ice surfaces, two soccer fields, a baseball diamond and a running track, as well as enhance the level of recreational tourism in the region. The multi-use facility will also allow for the creation of an advanced hockey program for secondary-school level hockey players and used as a national training facility for Hockey Canada. The semi-private Outaouais Golf Club has courses that are considered among the highest rated in the National Capital Region. Canadian Professional Golfers Association (CPGA) professionals are onsite to provide lessons, and practice sessions are also available to all golfers. Education There are a variety of schools in Rockland including Anglophone public, Francophone public, Anglophone Catholic, and Francophone Catholic. Elementary Rockland Public School (RKPS) St. Patrick Catholic Elementary School École élémentaire catholique Sainte-Trinité École Carrefour Jeunesse High school École secondaire catholique L'Escale Rockland District High School (RDHS) St. Francis Xavier Catholic High School (St. FX) located in Hammond but attended by many students from Rockland Canadian International Hockey Academy Adult Eastern Ontario Education and Training Centre Music Rockland Music School Domenic's Academy of Music Transportation The community is served by Prescott-Russell Road 17, a two-lane road that by-passes the centre of the community to its north, though multiple businesses including big-box stores have been built along the roadway over the past several years. Heading west, it becomes Ottawa Road 174 heading towards Orleans and downtown Ottawa via Highway 417. Eastward it connects to municipalities such as Wendover, Alfred, Plantagenet and Hawkesbury. Prior to the downgrading of multiple roads across the province by the Ontario government during the