Hudson is a township municipality incorporating the congruent

geographic township The term township, in Canada, is generally the district or area associated with a town. The specific use of the term to describe political subdivisions has varied by country, usually to describe a local rural or semirural government within the co ...

Timiskaming District Timiskaming is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury districts. In 1921, Cochrane District was created from par ...

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, Canada. Hudson is located directly west of the city of

Temiskaming Shores Temiskaming Shores is a city in the Timiskaming District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It was created by the amalgamation of the town of New Liskeard, the town of Haileybury, and the township of Dymond in 2004. The city had a total population ...

and has only one named settlement, the community of Hillview.

History

Hudson was surveyed in 1887. However, the first settlers did not arrive until 1897, and the township was incorporated in 1904. The first

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to take place after settlement, in 1901, recorded the population as 46. Excerpted from Hawirko, Norman R; Arnott, Margaret. "''I've got to stop here until I'm called for''".

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Hudson 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.

Transportation

Ontario Highway 65 King's Highway 65, commonly referred to as Highway 65, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The route begins at Highway 66 and travels southeast to the Quebec border. At its midpoint, the route is conc ...

passes through the township on its way from Temiskaming Shores towards

Matachewan Matachewan is a township in Timiskaming, Northeastern Ontario, Canada, located at the end of Ontario Highway 66 along the Montreal River. The name is derived from the Cree word for "meeting of the currents". The town's main economy is based on ...

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* {{Timiskaming District Hudson's Bay Company trading posts Municipalities in Timiskaming District Single-tier municipalities in Ontario Township municipalities in Ontario

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