Mattawan | |
Official Name: | Municipality of Mattawan |
Settlement Type: | Municipality (single-tier) |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Ontario |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 220 |
Pushpin Label: | Mattawan |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Coordinates: | 46.3333°N -128°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Nipissing |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Peter Murphy |
Area Land Km2: | 201.00 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 161 |
Population Density Km2: | 0.8 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | P0H 1V0 |
Area Code: | 705, 249 |
Mattawan is a municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in the Nipissing District, the municipality had a population of 161 in the Canada 2016 Census.
The municipality has no named communities within its boundaries; all addresses within the municipality are rural routes assigned to the neighbouring town of Mattawa.
Its main access road is Highway 533, with Highway 656 as a short branch leading to the Otto Holden Generating Station on the Ottawa River.
In 2007, Mattawan, along with the town of Mattawa and the townships of Papineau-Cameron, Bonfield and Calvin cooperated to create a newly branded Mattawa Voyageur Country tourist region in order to promote the area.[2]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Mattawan had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 200.12km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]