Chisholm | |
Official Name: | Township of Chisholm |
Settlement Type: | Township (single-tier) |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Ontario |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Nipissing |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Gail Degagne |
Leader Title1: | MP |
Leader Name1: | Anthony Rota |
Leader Title2: | MPP |
Area Total Km2: | 206.73 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 1291 |
Population Density Km2: | 6.2 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Coordinates: | 46.1°N -93°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | P0H 1Z0 |
Area Code: | 705, 249 |
Website: | www.chisholm.ca |
Chisholm (Canada 2016 Census population 1,291) is a township in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, located in the Nipissing District.
Maps show the township as comprising the communities of Alderdale, Booth's Landing, Chiswick, Fossmill, Grahamvale and Wasing, however, these communities are now little more than slightly denser areas of housing, or completely abandoned in the case of Fossmill.[2] The township administrative offices are located in Chiswick. Alderdale, Fossmill, Grahamvale, and Wasing were all once stops or milepoints along the Canadian National Railway Alderdale Subdivision.[3] Rail service declined in the mid-20th century and was eliminated altogether in 1996.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Chisholm had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 205.77km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]