Tarbutt | |
Official Name: | Township of Tarbutt |
Settlement Type: | Township (single-tier) |
Flag Size: | 120x100px |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Ontario |
Coordinates: | 46.35°N -84°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Title2: | Incorporated |
Established Date2: | October 9, 1956 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Lennox Smith |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Area Land Km2: | 52.82 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 534 |
Population Density Km2: | 10.1 |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Postal Code: | P0R |
Tarbutt (formerly known as Tarbutt and Tarbutt Additional) is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within the Algoma District. The township is about east of Sault Ste. Marie.
Its population centres are Port Findlay and MacLennan. It is the only municipality along the North Channel of Lake Huron which includes no residential communities located directly along Highway 17; MacLennan is located north of the highway at the intersection of MacLennan Road and Government Road, while Port Findlay is located at the south end of MacLennan Road along the waterfront.
In December 2016, the municipal council adopted a by-law to change the name of the township from The Corporation of the Township of Tarbutt & Tarbutt Additional to the Corporation of the Township of Tarbutt, effective in January 2017.[2]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Tarbutt and Tarbutt 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 52.79km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]