
Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional is a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
in
Algoma District
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The name was created by an American ethnologist, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864), who was appointed Indian agent to the Ojibwe ...
,
Ontario
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, Canada. Originally surveyed as separate geographical townships, Macdonald and Meredith were incorporated as a single, municipal township in 1892. The geographical township of Aberdeen Additional was added to Macdonald and Meredith township in 1899 to create the municipal township of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional.
The township encompasses the unincorporated communities of Echo Bay, Bar River and Sylvan Valley.
Communities
Bar River is a small
hamlet
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straddling the boundary between the townships of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and
Laird
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.
Echo Bay is located on the shores of the eponymous Echo Bay and
Lake George. The community is home to a big
loonie
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, similar to the
Big Nickel in
Sudbury Sudbury may refer to:
Places Australia
* Sudbury Reef, Queensland
Canada
* Greater Sudbury, Ontario
** Sudbury (federal electoral district)
** Sudbury (provincial electoral district)
** Sudbury Airport
** Sudbury Basin, a meteorite impact cra ...
, around eastward.
Robert-Ralph Carmichael
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, one of the Canadian dollar coin's designers, lived near Echo Bay.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of −6% from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Population trend:
[Statistics Canada: ]1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
, 2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
, 2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
census, 2011
The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
, 2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
* Population in 2016: 1,609
* Population in 2011: 1,464
* Population in 2006: 1,550
* Population in 2001: 1,452
* Population in 1996: 1,521
* Population in 1991: 1,548
See also
*
List of townships in Ontario
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Northern Ontario Northeastern Ontario Algoma D ...
*
Campbellford
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: Location for a Giant Toonie Monument, similar to the Big Loonie.
*
Big Nickel: Located in
Sudbury, Ontario
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.
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Municipalities in Algoma District
Single-tier municipalities in Ontario
Township municipalities in Ontario