| Harrington | |
| Flag Size: | 120x100px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Central Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in central Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 45.8333°N -114°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1830 |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | July 1, 1855 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Pierre Richard |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 249.93 |
| Area Land Km2: | 233.65 |
| Population Total: | 967 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 4.1 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 14.3% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 1339 |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Harrington is a township municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Argenteuil Regional County Municipality. It is located in the Laurentian Mountains, about 40km (30miles) north-west of Lachute.
Its population centres include Harrington, Lac-Keatley, Lakeview, Lost River, and Rivington.
Harrington is a land of lakes and rivers, stocked with abundant fish. The Rouge River is the main river flowing through it, and the largest lakes include Lake (Lac) MacDonald, Green Lake, and Lake Harrington, each attracting a large number summer cottage vacationers. Its territory has a characteristic appearance of the Laurentian region with dense forests, rising to an elevation of 457m (1,499feet) in the north-east, which is 30m (100feet) more than Mont Chauve which dominates Green Lake.[2] [3]
The Lost River flows for some miles from a spring that disappears under a calcareous rock between Gate Lake and Fraser Lake.[4]
Harrington Township first appeared on the Gale and Duberger Map of 1795, but was not settled until 1830 when Scottish pioneers settled in the Lost River area in the east. In 1841, the township is officially established and in 1855, the township municipality was formed.[3]
It is believed that the name Harrington may be attributed to a location in England, however, the local post office was identified under the name of Rivington between 1878 and 1961.[3]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Harrington had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 233.65km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[5]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Harrington, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 380 | 8.6% | 39.2% | 495 | 12.5% | 51.0% | 35 | 600.0% | 3.6% | 50 | 11.1% | 5.2% | ||||||||
| 350 | 1.4% | 41.4% | 440 | 2.2% | 52.1% | 5 | 75.0% | 0.6% | 45 | 50.0% | 5.3% | ||||||||
| 345 | 60.5% | 40.4% | 450 | 2.2% | 52.6% | 20 | 78.9% | 2.3% | 30 | 200.0% | 3.5% | ||||||||
| 215 | 4.9% | 27.7% | 460 | 8.0% | 59.4% | 95 | n/a% | 12.3% | 10 | 84.6% | 1.3% | ||||||||
| 205 | 28.1% | 26.8% | 500 | 1.0% | 65.4% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 65 | 62.5% | 8.5% | ||||||||
| 160 | n/a | 22.5% | 505 | n/a | 71.1% | 0 | n/a | 0.0% | 40 | n/a | 5.6% | ||||||||
| Liberal | Conservative | Bloc Québécois | New Democratic | Green | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 52% | 312 | 14% | 82 | 25% | 152 | 4% | 24 | 0% | 0 | ||||||
| 2019 | 53% | 310 | 14% | 80 | 21% | 123 | 5% | 31 | 5% | 32 | ||||||
| CAQ | Liberal | QC solidaire | Parti Québécois | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 19% | 97 | 55% | 285 | 6% | 33 | 8% | 44 | |||||
| 2014 | 8% | 45 | 76% | 436 | 1% | 6 | 14% | 80 | |||||
Harrington forms part of the federal electoral district of Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation and has been represented by Stéphane Lauzon of the Liberal Party since 2015. Provincially, Harrington is part of the Argenteuil electoral district and is represented by Agnès Grondin of the Coalition Avenir Québec since 2018.
List of former mayors:
The Commission scolaire de la Rivière-du-Nord operates French-language public schools.[6]
Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates English-language schools: