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Southwold, Ontario

Field	Value
name	Southwold, Ontario
official_name	Township of Southwold
settlement_type	Township (lower-tier)
image_skyline	Southwold ON.JPG
flag_size	120x100px
shield_size	100x90px
mapsize	200px
pushpin_map	Canada Southern Ontario
pushpin_mapsize	200
pushpin_label_position	left
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Canada
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Ontario
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Elgin
established_title	Settled
established_title2	Incorporated
established_date2	1852
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Grant Jones
leader_title1	Federal riding
leader_name1	Elgin—St. Thomas—London South
leader_title2	Prov. riding
leader_name2	Elgin—Middlesex—London
area_land_km2	301.74
area_footnotes
population_as_of	2016
population_footnotes
population_total	4421
population_density_km2	14.7
timezone	EST
utc_offset	-5
timezone_DST	EDT
utc_offset_DST	-4
postal_code_type	Postal Code
postal_code	N0L
area_codes	519, 226, 548
website	www.southwold.ca

Southwold is a township in Elgin County, in Ontario, Canada, located on the north shore of Lake Erie. It is a rich agricultural zone producing predominantly corn and soybeans. It is part of the London census metropolitan area.

History

The Southwold Earthworks is located in the township. It is an example of a pre-contact site associated with the indigenous Neutral people. The period of Neutral occupation is dated to approximately 14501550. It was designated as a National Historic Site in 1923.

Southwold was named in 1792 after Southwold in Suffolk, England. The municipality was incorporated in 1852.

Shedden's growth occurred when the Canada Southern Railway was built, bypassing Fingal. Later it was joined by the Pere Marquette railway, boosting Shedden's importance further still. Both railways are now defunct. Talbotville is situated at the intersection of highways 3 & 4, two of the oldest roads in the region.

Economy

The township is home to the Green Lane Landfill, a large garbage dump site purchased by the City of Toronto in 2007. Toronto began shipping waste to the site in 2010.

Communities

Fingal
Iona
Iona Station
Paynes Mills
Shedden
Talbotville Royal

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Southwold had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 301.38 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

1996 population would have been 4,273 when adjusted to 2001 boundaries |1991|4,351 |1996|4,282 |2001|4,487 |2006|4,724 |2011|4,494 |2016|4,421

References

(8 February 2017). "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Southwold, Township". [[Statistics Canada]].
{{CRHP. 11706. Southwold Earthworks
"Green Lane Landfill". City of Toronto.
(February 9, 2022). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Ontario". [[Statistics Canada]].
Statistics Canada: [[Canada 1996 Census. 1996]], [[Canada 2001 Census. 2001]], [[Canada 2006 Census. 2006]] census
"Southwold census profile". Statistics Canada.

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