Renfrew County is a county and census division in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located on the west bank of the Ottawa River. There are 17 municipalities in the county. Its county seat is Pembroke, which is geographically within the county but administered independently.
History Bathurst District When Carleton County was withdrawn from Bathurst District in 1838, Renfrew County was severed from part of the remaining Lanark County, but the two remained united for electoral purposes. By 1845, all lands in the District had been surveyed into the following townships:
+Counties comprising Bathurst District (1845)LanarkRenfrew Bathurst Beckwith Drummond Dalhousie Darling North Elmsley North Burgess Levant Lanark Montague Ramsay North Sherbrooke South Sherbrooke Admaston Blithefield Bagot Bromley Horton McNab Pakenham Pembroke Ross Stafford Westmeath
United Counties of Lanark and Renfrew Effective January 1, 1850, Bathurst District was abolished, and the "United Counties of Lanark and Renfrew" replaced it for municipal and judicial purposes. The counties remained united for electoral purposes in the Parliament of the Province of Canada, referred to as the County of Lanark, until Renfrew gained its own seat in 1853.
The separation of Renfrew from Lanark began in 1861, with the creation of a Provisional Municipal Council that held its first meeting in June 1861. The United Counties were dissolved in August 1866.
Geographical evolution The territory was originally described in 1838 as consisting of:
In 1851, Pakenham was transferred to Lanark, while Renfrew was expanded through the addition of:
In 1860, the newly surveyed townships of Miller and Canonto were transferred to Frontenac County, while the townships of Raglan, Lyndoch, Radcliffe and Brudenell were added to Renfrew. The final expansion of the County occurred in 1877-1878, with the transfer of the United Townships of Hagarty, Sherwood, Jones, Richards and Burns, and the United Townships of Head, Clara and Maria, from Nipissing District.Proclamations of June 2, 1877 and January 6, 1878, implementing
Once all lands had been surveyed in 1878, the County consisted of the following geographic townships:
Admaston Alice Bagot Blythfield Bromley Brougham Brudenell Buchanan Burns Clara Fraser Grattan Griffith Hagarty Head Horton Jones Lyndoch Maria Matawatchan McKay McNab North Algona Pembroke Petawawa Radcliffe Raglan Richards Rolph Ross Sebastopol Sherwood South Algona Stafford Westmeath Wilberforce Wylie
Municipal reorganization (2001)
Current municipalityconsisting of the townships ofTown of ArnpriorTown of Deep RiverTown of Laurentian Hills Buchanan McKay Rolph WylieTown of Petawawa PetawawaTown of RenfrewTownship of Admaston/Bromley Admaston BromleyTownship of Bonnechere Valley Grattan Sebastopol South AlconaTownship of Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan Brudenell Lyndoch RaglanTownship of Greater Madawaska Bagot Blythfield Brougham Griffith MatawatchanTownship of Head, Clara and Maria Clara Head MariaTownship of Horton HortonTownship of Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards Hagarty RichardsTownship of Laurentian Valley Alice Fraser Pembroke StaffordTownship of Madawaska Valley Burns Jones Radcliffe SherwoodTownship of McNab/Braeside McNabTownship of North Algona Wilberforce North Algona WilberforceTownship of Whitewater Region Ross Westmeath
The county seat, Pembroke, is a separated municipality.
Geography
Renfrew County is known for its lakeside cottages and white-water rafting along the Ottawa River, and has more than 900 lakes.Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada located in the Ottawa Valley, County of Renfrew It is located in the primary region of Southern Ontario and the secondary region Eastern or Southeastern Ontario. Renfrew County is also the largest county in terms of area in Ontario, ahead of Hastings County.
Demographics As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Renfrew County had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Arts and culture
At Wilno, Ontario Canada's Kashubian community celebrates their heritage.
Military The county is home to CFB Petawawa and gives its name to The Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment.
Notable people Ray Larabie, typographerLarabie, Raymond (August 10, 2020). Between the Lines: The Hidden Stories of Typodermic Fonts. Retrieved August 21, 2024. Silver Quilty, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductee
See also List of numbered roads in Renfrew County List of municipalities in Ontario List of Ontario counties Renfrew County municipal elections, 2010 List of townships in Ontario List of secondary schools in Ontario#Renfrew County
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