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Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional

Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional
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nameMacdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional
official_nameTownship of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional
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image_captionMunicipal office in Echo Bay
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subdivision_nameCanada
subdivision_type1Province
subdivision_name1Ontario
subdivision_type2District
subdivision_name2Algoma
government_typeTownship
leader_titleMayor
leader_nameLynn Watson
leader_title1MP
leader_name1Terry Sheehan (Liberal)
leader_title2MPP
leader_name2Bill Rosenberg (PC)
established_titleSettled
established_datemid 19th century
established_title2Incorporated
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area_land_km2163.26
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population_total1513
population_density_km29.3
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The ''Big Loonie'' in Echo Bay.

Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional is a township in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. Originally surveyed as separate geographical townships, Macdonald and Meredith were incorporated as a single, municipal township in 1892. The geographical township of Aberdeen Additional was added to Macdonald and Meredith township in 1899 to create the municipal township of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional.

Macdonald township was named after John A. Macdonald, while Meredith township was named after William Ralph Meredith.

Communities

The township encompasses the unincorporated communities of Echo Bay (), Echo River (), and Sylvan Valley ().

Echo Bay, the township's main population centre, is located on the shores of the eponymous Echo Bay and Lake George. The community is home to a big loonie, similar to the Big Nickel in Sudbury, around 260 km eastward. Robert-Ralph Carmichael, one of the Canadian dollar coin's designers, lived near Echo Bay.

Bar River () is a small hamlet straddling the boundary between the townships of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and Laird.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of −6% from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 163.26 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

| 1901 |953 | 1911 |945 | 1921 |1061 | 1931 |993 | 1941 |1084 | 1951 |1014 | 1956 |1120 | 1961 |1200 | 1966 |1267 | 1971 |1305 | 1976 |1432 | 1981 |1514 | 1986 |1462 | 1991 |1548 | 1996 |1521 | 2001 |1452 | 2006 |1550 | 2011 |1464 | 2016 |1609 | 2021 |1513

References

References

  1. "History". Township of Macdonald, Meredith & Aberdeen Additional.
  2. {{Cite cgndb. FEHPF. Echo Bay
  3. {{Cite cgndb. FDGPM. Echo River
  4. {{Cite cgndb. FCUPG. Sylvan Valley
  5. {{Cite cgndb. FAFGE. Bar River
  6. (July 1973). "1971 Census of Canada - Population Census Subdivisions (Historical)". Statistics Canada.
  7. "Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional census profile". Statistics Canada.
  8. {{SCref. (2021)
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