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Chichester is a township municipality and village in the
The Gale and Duberger Map of 1795 already showed the planned "Chicheter" icTownship but it was not officially proclaimed until 1849. It is named after the administrative capital of West Sussex, England.
In 1854, the local post office opened (closed in 1970). In 1855, the township was incorporated as a municipality with John B. Poupore as its first mayor.
Chichester was once a thriving community with numerous sawmills, a grist mill, shingle mill, blacksmith shop and two hotels. In the 19th century (1873-1876), the township tried to boost its economy by petitioning the Federal Department of Public WorksClyde C. Kennedy, ''The Upper Ottawa Valley'', Renfrew County Council, Pembroke, Ontario, 1970 to build large wooden locks in the Culbute Channel of the Ottawa River, claimed to be the largest wooden ones in Canada. The locks were meant to allow steamboat travel on the upper portion of the river but this idea never caught on. The Culbute Locks (and associated dam) were in use from 1876 until the fall of 1889 when they were "...abandoned to the forces of the river and Nature's wood-rotting agents..."
Today, the municipality is predominantly dependent on farming, lumbering, and some summer tourism.
Canadian province
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of Quebec
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, located within the Pontiac Regional County Municipality.
Chichester is located along the north shores of the Ottawa River
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across from Chapeau
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on Allumette Island
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Its settlements include Chichester and Nichabau. Nichabau, also known as Nicabeau or Nichabong, is a scenic hamlet located northwest of Chichester in what used to be referred to as Poupore's Limits. It is noted for its great number of square log homes.
Geography
The northern part of the municipal territory is sparsely populated and undeveloped, dotted with several lakes including Lake McGillivray. In its centre there are hills some of which reach an altitude of . The southern portion is mostly cleared and used for agriculture, and where the 2 communities are located.History
The Gale and Duberger Map of 1795 already showed the planned "Chicheter" icTownship but it was not officially proclaimed until 1849. It is named after the administrative capital of West Sussex, England.
In 1854, the local post office opened (closed in 1970). In 1855, the township was incorporated as a municipality with John B. Poupore as its first mayor.
Chichester was once a thriving community with numerous sawmills, a grist mill, shingle mill, blacksmith shop and two hotels. In the 19th century (1873-1876), the township tried to boost its economy by petitioning the Federal Department of Public WorksClyde C. Kennedy, ''The Upper Ottawa Valley'', Renfrew County Council, Pembroke, Ontario, 1970 to build large wooden locks in the Culbute Channel of the Ottawa River, claimed to be the largest wooden ones in Canada. The locks were meant to allow steamboat travel on the upper portion of the river but this idea never caught on. The Culbute Locks (and associated dam) were in use from 1876 until the fall of 1889 when they were "...abandoned to the forces of the river and Nature's wood-rotting agents..."
Today, the municipality is predominantly dependent on farming, lumbering, and some summer tourism.
Demographics
In the2021 Census of Population
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conducted by Statistics Canada
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, Chichester 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.
Mother tongue (2016):
* English as first language: 86.1%
* French as first language: 10.8%
* Other as first language: 3.1%
See also
*List of township municipalities in Quebec
This is a list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipal type township municipality, an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy.
Township municipalities
(area is in km², populatio ...
References
External links
{{authority control Township municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Outaouais