Chelsea is a municipality located immediately north of Ottawa, Canada about a 15 minute drive from Canada's Parliament Hill. Chelsea is a rural community that it's population actively protects and enhances. In 2001 the population was 6036 at that time there were 700 children enrolled in Soccer Chelsea.

The municipality has won numerous awards for it's environmental initiatives and was one of the first in Canada to ban the use of pesticides. Much of the municipality is residential with one-acre or larger lots giving the area a distinctly rural feel.

The Municipality of Chelsea includes much of the southern and eastern parts of the Gatineau Park while the Gatineau River runs along it's eastern boarder. Chelsea boasts many lakes including Meech Lake, of the Meech Lake Accord and Kingsmere Lake famous as the summer home of MacKenzie King and Beamish Lake as well as numerous beaver ponds. When the winter starts with cold, snowless days these water ways are full of pick-up hockey players.

Chelsea is a mecca for the outdoor sportsperson and has miles of bike, walking and ski paths - most of which are fully maintained by the National Capital Commission or the Municipality. As well, there are three golf courses within it's boundaries, three tennis court areas, a sailing club, paddling club and two ski clubs - alpine and nordic, a weight training facility, physiotherapy clinic and innumerable soccer pitches.

The population of Chelsea is almost evenly divided between anglophones and francophones with both languages used interchangeably throughout the town and at town meetings. There is both an English and French elementary school as well as a French Montesory school, French Montesory Pre-school and English Co-op Pre-school with French language studies.