Plummer Additional | |
Official Name: | Township of Plummer Additional |
Settlement Type: | Township (single-tier) |
Flag Size: | 120x100px |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Ontario |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Coordinates: | 46.3667°N -129°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Title2: | Incorporated |
Established Date2: | 1891 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Beth West |
Leader Title1: | MP |
Leader Name1: | Carol Hughes (NDP) |
Leader Name2: | Michael Mantha (NDP) |
Area Land Km2: | 220.30 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 660 |
Population Density Km2: | 3.0 |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Postal Code: | P0R 1C0 |
Area Code: | 705 and 249 (785 exchange) |
Elevation M: | 242 |
Website: | plummertownship.ca |
Plummer Additional is a township and single tier municipality[2] located in Algoma District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. The township had a population of 660 in the Canada 2016 Census.
The township includes the communities of Bruce Station, Cloudslee, Plummer, Rock Lake and Rydal Bank.
The town of Bruce Mines is wholly surrounded by, but politically independent of, the township; it was separated in 1903. However, the 2010 mayoral election in Bruce Mines was won by Gordon Post, a candidate who pledged to investigate the feasibility of reamalgamating the two municipalities.[3]
Rydal Bank Church located at Rydal Bank within the township is a municipally designated heritage site.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Plummer 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 219.24km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]
Population trend:[5]
The township is served by Ontario Highway 17 which traverses the south in an east–west orientation, and Ontario Highway 638, which travels the middle of the township in a north–south orientation.