North Algona Wilberforce | |
Official Name: | Township of North Algona Wilberforce |
Settlement Type: | Township municipality (lower-tier)[1] |
Flag Size: | 120x100px |
Pushpin Map: | CAN ON Renfrew#Canada Southern Ontario |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Title2: | Formed |
Established Date2: | January 1, 1999 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | James Brose |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Area Land Km2: | 369.23 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 3,111 |
Population Density Km2: | 8.4 |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Postal Code: | K0J 1T0 |
Coordinates: | 45.6183°N -77.2203°W |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [2] |
North Algona Wilberforce is a township municipality in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.[3] 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.
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,[4] Rankin, Slabtown, Trevor Ouellette Lake and Woito.
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.
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 369.23km2, it had a population density of in 2021.
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The township is served by Ontario Highway 41 and Ontario Highway 60.[5]
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.