Casselman | |
Official Name: | Village of Casselman Municipalité de Casselman |
Settlement Type: | Village (lower-tier) |
Flag Size: | 120x100px |
Pushpin Map: | CAN ON Prescott and Russell#Canada Southern Ontario#Ontario |
Coordinates: | 45.3083°N -75.0833°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Prescott and Russell |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | 1844 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated |
Government Type: | Mayor |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Genevieve Lajoie |
Leader Title1: | MPs |
Leader Name1: | Francis Drouin |
Area Land Km2: | 5.12 |
Population Total: | 3,960 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Density Km2: | 771.9 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Postal Code: | K0A 1M0 |
Area Code: | 613 |
Website: | www.casselman.ca |
Leader Title2: | MPPs |
Leader Name2: | Stéphane Sarrazin |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Casselman is a village in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell. Situated on the South Nation River about 55km (34miles) southeast of downtown Ottawa, along the Trans-Canada Highway 417. It is served by a station on the Montreal-Ottawa Via Rail train, twice a day in each direction.
Casselman is surrounded on all sides by The Nation since Casselman citizens refused to join the fusion of municipalities.
The village was named after Martin Casselman who built a sawmill near the site of the current town in 1844. Its post office was established in 1857.[2] The village installed modern water and sewer services that became operational in 1977.
Casselman hosted L'écho d'un peuple, at Ferme Drouin, one of the biggest shows ever presented in Ontario, until the organization ran into financial trouble in 2008.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Casselman had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 5.13km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]
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