Morris-Turnberry | |
Official Name: | Municipality of Morris-Turnberry |
Settlement Type: | Municipality (lower-tier) |
Flag Size: | 120x100px |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Ontario |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Ontario |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Title2: | Formed |
Established Date2: | 2001 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Jamie Heffer |
Leader Title1: | Deputy Mayor |
Leader Name1: | TBD |
Leader Title2: | Federal riding |
Leader Title3: | Prov. riding |
Area Land Km2: | 376.55 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 3496 |
Population Density Km2: | 9.1 |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Postal Code: | N0G/N0K |
The Municipality of Morris-Turnberry is a municipality in Huron County, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the north portion of Huron County, near the Bruce County border, southeast of Wingham.
It was formed as an amalgamation of the former Morris and Turnberry townships in 2001 in an Ontario-wide local government restructuring imposed by the government of that time. The two former townships now comprise the wards of the amalgamated municipality.
Morris-Turnberry's only significant settlement is Bluevale, located at the junction of Huron Roads 86 and 87 east of Wingham. This is where Elias Disney, father of Walt Disney, was born in 1859. Sunshine is also located here.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Morris-Turnberry had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 376.89km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Prior to amalgamation (2001):