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North Algona Wilberforce

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nameNorth Algona Wilberforce
official_nameTownship of North Algona Wilberforce
settlement_typeTownship municipality (lower-tier)
image_skylineGolden Lake ON.JPG
image_captionGolden Lake community centre and Post Office (K0J 1X0)
flag_size120x100px
shield_size100x90px
pushpin_mapCAN ON Renfrew#Canada Southern Ontario
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameCanada
subdivision_type1Province
subdivision_name1Ontario
subdivision_type2County
subdivision_name2Renfrew
established_titleSettled
established_title2Formed
established_date2January 1, 1999
leader_titleMayor
leader_nameJames Brose
leader_title1Federal riding
leader_name1Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke
leader_title2Prov. riding
leader_name2Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke
area_land_km2369.23
area_footnotes
population_as_of2021
population_footnotes
population_total3,111
population_density_km28.4
timezoneEST
utc_offset-5
timezone_DSTEDT
utc_offset_DST-4
postal_code_typePostal Code
postal_codeK0J 1T0
area_codes613, 343
coordinates
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website

North Algona Wilberforce is a township municipality in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It has a population of 3,111. The township was formed in 1999 when the North Algona and Wilberforce townships were amalgamated.

Wilberforce Township was named in 1851, to honour William Wilberforce.

Communities

The township contains the communities of Allans Corners, Beef Town, Budd Mills, Crooked Rapids, Deacon, Dore Bay, Duquette's Farm, Fourth Chute, Germanicus, Golden Lake, Green Lake, Higginson's Hill, Lake Dore, Lett's Corners, Mink Lake, Mud Lake, Rankin, Slabtown, Trevor Ouellette Lake and Woito.

Fourth Chute

The town of Fourth Chute is the fourth of five chutes along the Bonnechere River. The others being Castleford, Renfrew, Douglas and Eganville. The chutes used were for moving timber past rapids and waterfalls.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, North Algona Wilberforce had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 369.23 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

|1996| 2595 |2001| 2729 |2006| 2840 |2011| 2873 |2016| 2915 | 2021 | 3111

Mother tongue (2021):

  • English as first language: 93.7%
  • French as first language: 2.4%
  • English and French as first language: 0.8%
  • Other as first language: 2.9%

Transportation

The township is served by Ontario Highway 41 and Ontario Highway 60.

Canadian National Railway served Golden Lake on the Algonquin and Locksley subdivisions. Rail service was discontinued in 1961 on the Locksley Subdivision. The Algonquin Subdivision was broken in 1933 due to an unsafe trestle in the Algonquin Park at Cache Lake. The section east of the break became the Renfrew Subdivision, which maintained service until 1984. The grades of both lines now serve at trails for snow machines, ATVs and bicycles.

References

References

  1. (2021-05-11). "List of Ontario municipalities". [[Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Ontario).
  2. {{SCref. (2021)
  3. "North Algona Wilberforce".
  4. (2020). "Ontario Geonames GIS (on-line map and search)". [[Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.
  5. "Mud Lake".
  6. [[Canada 1996 Census. 1996]], [[Canada 2001 Census. 2001]], [[Canada 2006 Census. 2006]], [[Canada 2011 Census. 2011]], [[Canada 2016 Census. 2016]] census
  7. (2020-01-01). "Map 10". [[Ministry of Transportation of Ontario]].
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