Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional | |
Official Name: | Township of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional |
Settlement Type: | Township (single-tier) |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Ontario |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Coordinates: | 46.4833°N -88°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Algoma |
Government Type: | Township |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Lynn Watson |
Leader Title1: | MP |
Leader Name1: | Carol Hughes (NDP) |
Leader Name2: | Michael Mantha (NDP) |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | mid 19th century |
Established Title2: | Incorporated |
Established Date2: | 1899 |
Area Land Km2: | 164.05 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 1609 |
Population Density Km2: | 9.8 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Postal Code: | P0S 1C0 |
Area Code: | 705, 249 |
Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional is a township in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. Originally surveyed as separate geographical townships, Macdonald and Meredith were incorporated as a single, municipal township in 1892. The geographical township of Aberdeen Additional was added to Macdonald and Meredith township in 1899 to create the municipal township of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional.
The township encompasses the unincorporated communities of Echo Bay, Bar River and Sylvan Valley.
Bar River is a small hamlet straddling the boundary between the townships of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and Laird.
Echo Bay is located on the shores of the eponymous Echo Bay and Lake George. The community is home to a big loonie, similar to the Big Nickel in Sudbury, around eastward. Robert-Ralph Carmichael, one of the Canadian dollar coin's designers, lived near Echo Bay.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 163.26km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Population trend:[3]
Location for a Giant Toonie Monument, similar to the Big Loonie.
Located in Sudbury, Ontario.