| Bonnechere Valley | |
| Official Name: | Township of Bonnechere Valley |
| Settlement Type: | Township municipality (lower-tier) |
| Pushpin Map: | CAN ON Renfrew#Canada Southern Ontario |
| Coordinates: | 45.45°N -85°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Renfrew |
| Government Type: | Township |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Jennifer Murphy |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | 2001 |
| Area Land Km2: | 588.36 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 3,898 |
| Population Density Km2: | 6.6 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | K0J 1T0 |
| Area Codes: | 613, 343 |
Bonnechere Valley is a township municipality in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It had a population of 3,898 in the 2021 Canadian census. It was established on January 1, 2001, by amalgamation of the village of Eganville and the townships of Grattan, Sebastapol, and South Algona.[1]
The administrative and commercial centre of Bonnechere Valley is Eganville, a small community occupying a deep limestone valley carved at the Fifth Chute of the Bonnechere River.
The township also comprises the smaller communities of Augsburg, Castile, Clontarf, Constant Creek, Cormac, Dacre, Donegal, Esmonde, Grattan, Lake Clear, McGrath, Perrault, Ruby, Silver Lake, Scotch Bush, Vanbrugh, Woermke, and Zadow, as well as the ghost towns of Newfoundout, Balaclava and Foymount.
The power of the Bonnechere River has been harnessed since 1848 but it was John Egan's grist mill that gets credit for stimulating the area's economic growth.
In 1911, the Great Fire destroyed many of the buildings in Eganville. 75 homes were lost in all along with schools, churches and industries along both sides on the Bonnechere River. This fire was started by two teenagers smoking cigarettes in a shed. A year later, the Municipal Building was erected, and served as the village post office for almost a century. This building has since become the home of the Bonnechere Museum and one of the most well known symbols of Eganville.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Bonnechere Valley had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 588.36km2, it had a population density of in 2021.