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East Ferris is a
township
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in northeastern
Ontario
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,
Canada
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located between
Trout Lake and
Lake Nosbonsing in the
District of Nipissing.
West Ferris has long been annexed into the city of
North Bay.
Communities
The main communities within East Ferris are Astorville and Corbeil. There are also smaller residential areas in the township, known as Derland Road and Lake Nosbonsing.
Astorville and Derland were formerly stops along the
Canadian National Railway Alderdale Subdivision.
Rail service declined in the mid-20th century and was eliminated altogether in 1996.
In July 2005, Astorville hosted the first Northern Ontario
Ball Hockey
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Ball hockey is patterned after and closely r ...
Championship. In November 2005, Astorville was one of nine communities that voted on whether to accept private funding for a health centre.
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'', November 21, 2005, pg. A.1.Fro.
Corbeil is located on the
La Vase River
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, at a turn in
Highway 94 south of its terminus at
Highway 17. The township's municipal office and fire station is located in Corbeil on Highway 94 south of Voyer Road.
Economy
Many residents who live in East Ferris, commute back and forth to the City of
North Bay for work and for shopping.
Culture
The township's public library is located in Astorville.
The township holds an annual winter carnival, as well as town picnics in the summer.
Astorville is home to the
Nosbonsing Curling Club.
Notable people
Canadian cartoonist
Lynn Johnston
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lived and worked in Corbeil until she moved to
North Vancouver in 2015.
The
Dionne quintuplets
The Dionne quintuplets (; born May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical girls were born just outside Callander, Ontario, near the village of Corbeil. All five survived to adulthood.
The Di ...
were born on a farm near Corbeil. Corbeil was also the home of
Marie-Louise Meilleur
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, a
supercentenarian who was 117 years old when she died in 1998. She was the oldest living person in the world for the eight months preceding her death, and remains both the oldest verified person in Canadian history and the
fourth oldest verified person in the world. She lived at the Nipissing Manor Nursing Home, which was once the mansion that housed the Dionne sisters.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada, East Ferris 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.
See also
*
List of townships in Ontario
*
List of francophone communities in Ontario
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The provincial average of Ontarians whose mother tongue is French is 4.1%, with a ...
References
External links
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{{Nipissing District
Municipalities in Nipissing District
Single-tier municipalities in Ontario
Township municipalities in Ontario