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Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke
Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke (known as Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke until 2025) is a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons since 1979. It is represented by Cheryl Gallant of the Conservative Party of Canada, Conservative Party. Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke includes all of Renfrew County, Ontario, Renfrew County and a small section of Nipissing District, Ontario, Nipissing District around Algonquin Provincial Park. The only city in the riding is the City of Pembroke, Ontario, Pembroke; towns include Arnprior, Cobden, Ontario, Cobden, Deep River, Ontario, Deep River, Petawawa and Renfrew, Ontario, Renfrew. Villages include Barry's Bay, Golden Lake, Ontario, Golden Lake, Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation, Pikwakanagan First Nation, Douglas, Ontario, Douglas, Greater Madawaska, Calabogie, Eganville, Ontario, Eganville, Wilno, Ontario, Wilno, Killaloe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Gallant
Cheryl Gallant (born May 23, 1960) is a Canadian politician who represents the riding of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke in the House of Commons of Canada. She is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Along with fellow MP Scott Reid, they are the longest-serving current Conservative MPs, and the last two MPs still serving who were members of the Canadian Alliance. Early life and career Gallant was born in Sarnia, Ontario. She attended the University of Western Ontario, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. Prior to becoming a politician, she worked for a major Canadian life insurance company as a group insurance executive and for a time as an office manager of a family-owned professional practice. Gallant has been married since 1985, and is the parent of four daughters. She has served as the Chair of the City of Pembroke Downtown Development Commission and as a member of the Economic Advisory Committee for the city. Political career Gallant won her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnprior
Arnprior is a town in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. Arnprior has experienced significant growth in populations with the widening of the Ontario Highway 417 to four lanes. The town experienced an increase in population by 8.4% from 2011 to 2016, at which time its population was 8,795. It was also during these critical 5 years that the Town of Arnprior surpassed the neighboring Town of Renfrew, Ontario, to become the county's third-largest town or city by population, behind Petawawa and Pembroke. The town is a namesake of Arnprior, Scotland, and is known for its lumber, hydro power generation, aerospace, farming, and proximity to the National Capital Region. History The land occupied by what is now called Arnprior is part of the traditional territory of the Algonquin nation of indigenous North Americans. The first European explorers, led by Samuel de Champlain, first visited the area in May 1613. In 1823, a surveyed block was ceded to Archibald McNab and named McNab Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Lake, Ontario
North Algona Wilberforce is a township municipality in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It has a population of 3,111. The township was formed in 1999 when the North Algona and Wilberforce townships were amalgamated. Wilberforce Township was named in 1851, to honour William Wilberforce. Communities The township contains the communities of Allans Corners, Beef Town, Budd Mills, Crooked Rapids, Deacon, Dore Bay, Duquette's Farm, Fourth Chute, Germanicus, Golden Lake, Green Lake, Higginson's Hill, Lake Dore, Lett's Corners, Mink Lake, Mud Lake, Rankin, Slabtown, Trevor Ouellette Lake and Woito. Fourth Chute The town of Fourth Chute is the fourth of five chutes along the Bonnechere River. The others being Castleford, Renfrew, Douglas and Eganville. The chutes used were for moving timber past rapids and waterfalls. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, North Algona Wilberforce had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnechere Valley
Bonnechere Valley is a township municipality in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It had a population of 3,898 in the 2021 Canadian census. It was established on January 1, 2001, by amalgamation of the village of Eganville and the townships of Grattan, Sebastapol, and South Algona. Communities The administrative and commercial centre of Bonnechere Valley is Eganville, a small community occupying a deep limestone valley carved at the Fifth Chute of the Bonnechere River. The township also comprises the smaller communities of Augsburg, Castile, Clontarf, Constant Creek, Cormac, Dacre, Donegal, Esmonde, Grattan, Lake Clear, McGrath, Perrault, Ruby, Silver Lake, Scotch Bush, Vanbrugh, Woermke, and Zadow, as well as the ghost towns of Newfoundout, Balaclava and Foymount. History The power of the Bonnechere River has been harnessed since 1848 but it was John Egan's grist mill that gets credit for stimulating the area's economic growth. In 1911, the Great Fire destroyed many of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madawaska Valley
The Township of Madawaska Valley is a township municipality in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It was formed in 2001 through the amalgamation of the village of Barry's Bay and the townships of Radcliffe and Sherwood Jones & Burns. The area is also a culturally significant location for the Polish diaspora in Canada, and is known by members of the community as Kaszuby (English ''Kashubia),'' after a region in Northern Poland that many early settlers of the region hailed from. Its largest population centre is Barry's Bay, and it also includes the settlements of Combermere and Wilno, the latter of which being named for the city of Vilnius (Polish ''Wilno''), a city in modern Lithuania that has historically possessed a large Polish population and significant cultural ties to Poland. The area is also the locus of Polish scouting organizations within Canada (including both ZHP and ZHR), who hold overnight camps for scouts annually, in July. Demographics In the 2021 Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep River, Ontario
Deep River is a town in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. Located along the Ottawa River, it lies about north-west of Ottawa on the Trans-Canada Highway. Deep River is opposite the Laurentian Mountains and the Province of Quebec. The name "Deep River" purportedly derives from the notion that the Ottawa River reaches its greatest depth of just outside the township. Although this is not official, the Ottawa River reaches a depth of in Moose Bay, which is located on the Holden Lake reservoir from the Des Joachim dam, west of Deux-Rivières. The primary industry centres on research at the Chalk River location of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), a facility of the Chalk River Laboratories about 10 km east of Deep River on Highway 17. The facility is named for and primarily accessed via the nearby town of Chalk River although the site is technically in Deep River. History Plans for the construction of this planned community began in 1944 by the federal government as par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algonquin Provincial Park
Algonquin Provincial Park is an Ontario Ontario Parks, provincial park located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River, mostly within the Nipissing, Unorganized, South Part, Ontario, Unorganized South Part of Nipissing District. Established in 1893, it is the oldest provincial park in Canada. Additions since its creation have increased the park to its current size of about . The park is contiguous with several smaller, administratively separate provincial parks that protect important rivers in the area, resulting in a larger total protected area. Its size, combined with its proximity to the major urban centres of Toronto and Ottawa, makes Algonquin one of the most popular provincial parks in the province and the country. Ontario Highway 60, Highway 60 runs through the south end of the park, while the Trans-Canada Highway bypasses it to the north. Over 2,400 lakes and 1,200 kilometres of streams and rivers are located within the park. Some notable examples include Canoe Lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobden, Ontario
Cobden is a small community in the Township of Whitewater Region, in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It is located northwest of Ottawa, and roughly halfway between Renfrew and Pembroke on Highway 17. History The area around Cobden was originally inhabited by the Nibachis, a sub-division of the native, Algonquian speaking, tribes of North America. Champlain's astrolabe In 1613, the French explorer Samuel de Champlain travelled through an area very near Cobden while he was exploring the Ottawa River. The Chenaux Rapids forced Champlain and his men to portage. They presumably took shore in Browns Bay, near present-day McKenzie's Hill. In 1953, a large rock was found in this area bearing a chiselled inscription. The inscription was hard to read but was determined to read, "Champlain Juin 2, 1613." Champlain's trail from that point is debatable. He may have cut straight across land to the southern tip of Jeffreys Lake, or he may have veered south, and skirted the far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry's Bay
Barry's Bay is a community in the township of Madawaska Valley, Ontario, Canada, located two hours west of Ottawa on the shores of Kamaniskeg Lake, with a 2021 population of 1,084. History The Algonquin people named the area Kuaenash Ne-ishing, meaning beautiful bay. They used it as a rendezvous area, often hosting pow wow gatherings. The first efforts by the authorities of the British colony of Upper Canada to survey the waterways of this area came in 1847, when mapmaker James Haslett visited the area. Haslett noted the presence of an Irish farmer named William Byers living in the area, which may have been transcribed as "Barry's", giving the name Barry's Bay on Haslett's maps. Later residents developed the more colloquial back story that the first permanent structure was built in the late 1850s by a James Barry, a foreman for a lumber company, which the lumberjacks working under Barry took to calling Barry's Camp on the Bay, shortened to Barry's Bay. Together, the details a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algonquins Of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation
The Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation (), formerly known as the Golden Lake First Nation, are an Algonquin First Nation in Ontario, Canada. Their territory is located in the former township of South Algona (now part of Bonnechere Valley) in the Ottawa Valley on Golden Lake. As of March 2025, the registered population of the First Nation was 4,395 people, of which only 459 on reserve. Reserve The First Nation have reserved for themselves the Pikwakanagan Indian Reserve, formerly known as Golden Lake 39 Indian Reserve. Their reserve of is adjacent to the hamlet of Golden Lake which is located between the villages of Killaloe and Eganville, about south of Pembroke. The land straddles the south shores of Golden Lake and the Bonnechere River The Bonnechere River is a river in the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin in Nipissing District and Renfrew County in eastern and northeastern Ontario, Canada. Shows the river course highlighted on a topographic map. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
