Admaston/Bromley | |
Official Name: | Township of Admaston/Bromley |
Settlement Type: | Township (lower-tier) |
Pushpin Map: | CAN ON Renfrew#Canada Southern Ontario |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
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: | Michael Donohue |
Leader Title1: | MP |
Leader Name1: | Cheryl Gallant (CPC) |
Leader Name2: | John Yakabuski (OPC) |
Established Title2: | Formed |
Area Land Km2: | 519.59 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 2995 |
Population Density Km2: | 5.8 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 45.5292°N -76.8969°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | K0J |
Area Codes: | 613,343 |
Admaston/Bromley is an incorporated township in Renfrew County, Eastern Ontario, Canada. It was formed on January 1, 2000, when Admaston and Bromley Townships were amalgamated. It takes part of its name from Admaston, Staffordshire, a small English hamlet.[2]
The township comprises the communities of Admaston, Balsam Hill, Belangers Corners, Bromley, Bulgers Corners, Connaught, Douglas, Ferguslea, Fremo Corners, Kellys Corner, Martins Corner, McDougall, Moores Lake, Mount St. Patrick, Northcote, Oakgrove, Osceola, Payne, Pine Valley, Renfrew Junction, Rosebank, Shamrock, and Wolftown.
The community, as well as the township, were named for the little village of Admaston, Staffordshire, the native home of Sir Charles Bagot, second Governor General of the Province of Canada .
The community, as well as the township, took its name from Bagot's Bromley in Staffordshire, England, home of the Bagot family.
When the post office was established in 1854, Scottish settlers chose the name Douglas after a town in Lanarkshire, Scotland.The town of Douglas is the third of five chutes along the Bonnechere River. The others being Castleford, Renfrew, Fourth Chute and Eganville. The chutes were used for moving timber past rapids and waterfalls; Douglas had a 21-foot (3.4 m) waterfall over which log drivers had to shepherd their timber.
The community was most likely first settled in the 1830's by squatters on the land, as there was no land registry until the 1850's. The settlers, almost solely Irish Catholics, named the village after Croagh Patrick, in County Mayo, Ireland.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Admaston/Bromley had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 519.59km2, it had a population density of in 2021.
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