Malahide | |
Official Name: | Township of Malahide |
Settlement Type: | Township (lower-tier) |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Ontario |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Elgin |
Government Type: | Township |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Dominique Giguère |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Elgin—Middlesex—London |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Elgin—Middlesex—London |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | 1810 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated |
Established Date2: | 1998 (current form) |
Area Land Km2: | 395.05 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Note: | [1] |
Population Total: | 9292 |
Population Density Km2: | 23.5 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 42.7928°N -80.9361°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code span |
Postal Code: | N0L |
Area Code: | 519, 226, 548 |
Malahide (Canada 2016 Census population 9,292) is a municipal township in Elgin County in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
Malahide Township was named for Malahide Castle in Malahide, Ireland, birthplace of land grant administrator Colonel Thomas Talbot in 1810. The village of Springfield was incorporated as a separate municipality in 1878.
The current municipality was formed in 1998 through an amalgamation of the original Township of Malahide, the former Township of South Dorchester and the former Village of Springfield.
The Ontario Police College is located in Malahide, at the site of the former Royal Canadian Air Force Station Aylmer, a training facility.
The township comprises the communities of Candyville, Crossley-Hunter, Copenhagen, Dunboyne, Fairview, Glencolin, Grovesend, Jaffa, Kingsmill, Lakeview, Little Aylmer, Luton, Lyons, Mile Corner, Mount Salem, Mount Vernon, Ormond Beach, Orwell, Port Bruce, Seville, Springfield, Summers Corners and Waneeta Beach.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Malahide had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 394.27km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]