North Frontenac is a

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in eastern

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History

North Frontenac was created in 1998 by the amalgamation of three municipalities: the Township of Barrie; the Township of Clarendon and Miller; and the Township of Palmerston, North and South Canonto.

Geography

North Frontenac is in the heart of Eastern Ontario's cottage country. Cottages and campsites dot the shores of the Township's many clean lakes. Located entirely on the Canadian Shield, the landscape can often be rough and unpredictable, but at the same time provides scenic vistas. Residents, both permanent and seasonal, enjoy a wide variety of outdoor activities. The Township is bordered by

Greater Madawaska Greater Madawaska is an incorporated township in Renfrew County in eastern Ontario, Canada, created on January 1, 2001, through the amalgamation of the Township of Bagot and Blythfield; the Township of Brougham; and the Township of Griffith and M ...

to the north,

Addington Highlands Addington Highlands ( 2016 population 2,323) is a township in central eastern Ontario, Canada, in the County of Lennox and Addington. Bon Echo Provincial Park is located primarily in Addington Highlands. History Addington Highlands was formed in ...

to the west,

Central Frontenac Central Frontenac is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada in the County of Frontenac. Central Frontenac was created in 1998 through an amalgamation of the Townships of Hinchinbrooke, Kennebec, Olden and Oso. Communities There are 28 communiti ...

to the south and

Lanark Highlands Lanark Highlands is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada in Lanark County. The township administrative offices are located in the village of Lanark. History The current township was incorporated on July 1, 1997 by amalgamating the former town ...

to the east.

Communities

The township includes the communities of Ardoch, Beatty, Beech Corners, Canonto, Coxvale, Donaldson, Fernleigh, Harlowe, Mississippi Station, Myers Cave, Ompah, Plevna, Robertsville, Snow Road Station and Wilbur. Ompah ON

Lakes

Lakes of notable size within the Township's borders are:

Dark-Sky Preserve status

On August 3, 2013, North Frontenac became the first municipality in Canada to achieve Dark Sky Preserve Status by the

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Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, North Frontenac 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: * English as first language: 92.8% * French as first language: 2.7% * Other as first language: 4.5%

Parks

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The municipality is host to

Bon Echo Provincial Park Bon Echo Provincial Park is a provincial park in southeastern Ontario, Canada, approximately north of Cloyne within the township boundaries of both Addington Highlands and North Frontenac. Bon Echo features several lakes, including part of Mazi ...

(shared with

) and the North Frontenac Parklands.

Local government

North Frontenac is governed by a mayor, a deputy mayor who serves as both deputy mayor and councilor and five councilors. Each municipal ward is represented by two councillors. The Mayor of North Frontenac represents the town on the Frontenac County Council, which consists of four mayors, each with a chosen councilor from their township.

Current government:

* Mayor: Gerry Lichty * Deputy Mayor: TBD * Councilors: ** Ward 1: Wayne Good ** Ward 1: Stephanie Regent ** Ward 2: Gerry Martin ** Ward 2: Roy Huetl ** Ward 3: Fred Fowler ** Ward 3: John Inglis

List of former mayors

Mayors of the Township of North Frontenac: * 2015–2022: RON HIGGINS * 2010–2014: BUD CLAYTON * 2003–2010: RON MAGUIRE * 1998–2003: STAN JOHNSON

Pre-Amalgamation

Reeves of the former Township of Barrie * 1873–1873: T. TAPPING * 1874–1874: D. KENYON * 1875–1875: D. KENYON * 1876–1878: T. TAPPING * 1879–1881: R. SCOTT * 1882–1882: T. TAPPING * 1883–1883: R. TAPPING * 1884–1886: A. WICKWARE * 1887–1887: Wm. DEMPSEY * 1888–1893: T. TAPPING * 1894–1894: G. DELINE * 1895–1895: G. DELINE * 1896–1896: Wm. SALMOND * 1897–1897: G. DELINE * 1898–1898: J. MITCHELL * 1899–1899: J. MITCHELL * 1900–1900: G. DELINE / Wm. SALMOND * 1901–1904: Wm. SALMOND * 1905–1905: G. DELINE * 1906–1906: G. DELINE * 1907–1909: C. MACGREGOR * 1910–1913: Wm. SALMOND * 1914–1917: J. GRAY * 1918–1926: C. MACGREGOR * 1927–1933: S. WHEELER * 1934–1942: H. LEVERE * 1943–1951: A. MACGREGOR * 1952–1952: A. HILLIER * 1953–1957: J. HEAD * 1958–1966: J. HILL * 1967–1988: T. NEAL * 1989–1990: W. VAN KEMPEN * 1991–1997: T. NEAL Reeves of the former Township of Clarendon and Miller * 1865–1882: B. WATKINS. (one of the first settlers in Clarendon) * 1883–1885: J. HOWELL * 1886–1891: J. HOWELL * 1892–1892: B. WATKINS * 1893–1896: A. MONROE * 1897–1900: J.F. CARD * 1901–1901: B. WATKINS * 1902–1904: J. MCDONALD * 1905–1905: S.S. BARTON * 1906–1906: J. MCDONALD * 1907–1907: J. MCDONALD * 1908–1912: J.D. GODKIN * 1913–1913: J.F. CARD * 1914–1914: J.F. CARD * 1915–1919: P.J. WENSLEY * 1920–1922: T. ARMSTRONG * 1923–1928: J. FLAKE * 1929–1931: J. BROUSE * 1932–1934: J. FLAKE * 1935–1951: L. KRING * 1952–1954: C. ARMSTRONG * 1955–1955: L. KRING * 1956–1956: G. KRING * 1957–1957: C. ARMSTRONG * 1958–1974: G. KRING * 1975–1984: WM. FLIELER * 1985–1997: S. JOHNSTON Reeves of the former Township of Palmerston, North and South Canonto. * 1896–1901: J. MCKENZIE * 1902–1902: P. WHITE * 1903–1903: J. MOORE * 1904–1904: R. WOOD * 1905–1905: WM. MILLAR * 1906–1908: D. WOOD * 1909–1909: WM. DONALDSON * 1910–1910: D. WOOD * 1911–1915: WM. DONALDSON * 1916–1924: D. GEMMILL * 1925–1932: S.J. SHANKS * 1933–1949: A.C. RHODES * 1950–1952: W.B. CAMERON * 1953–1972: A. TROMBLEY * 1973–1976: R. RYDER * 1977–1988: B. SPROULE * 1989–1991: B. CARNELL * 1992–1997: B. SPROULE

Attractions

North Frontenac Dark Sky Preserve North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is ...

Education

Students attend the Clarendon Central Public School in Plevna, ON (JK to Grade 8), the North Addington Education Centre in Cloyne, ON (JK to Grade 12) or the Granite Ridge Education Centre in Sharbot Lake, ON (JK to Grade 12). All schools are part of the

Limestone District School Board Limestone District School Board (LDSB, known as English-language Public District School Board No. 27 prior to 1999) is an English public district school board encompassing a region that includes the City of Kingston and the counties of Frontenac ...

Wildlife

With the Township consisting of a significant portion of

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administered by the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry, North Frontenac is home to many of Ontario's endangered and threatened animals such as; Endangered *

American eel The American eel (''Anguilla rostrata'') is a facultative catadromous fish found on the eastern coast of North America. Freshwater eels are fish belonging to the elopomorph superorder, a group of phylogenetically ancient teleosts. The America ...

American ginseng American ginseng (''Panax quinquefolius'') is a herbaceous perennial plant in the ivy family, commonly used as an herb in traditional Chinese medicine. It is native to eastern North America, though it is also cultivated in China. Since the 18th ...

Butternut tree ''Juglans cinerea'', commonly known as butternut or white walnut,Snow, Charles Henry ''The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties'' 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1908. p. 56. is a species of walnut native to the e ...

Eastern small-footed myotis The eastern small-footed bat (''Myotis leibii'') is a species of vesper bat. It can be found in southern Ontario and Quebec in Canada and in mountainous portions of the eastern United States from New England to northern Georgia, and westward to n ...

Golden eagle The golden eagle (''Aquila chrysaetos'') is a bird of prey living in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the most widely distributed species of eagle. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. They are one of the best-known bird of p ...

Lake sturgeon The lake sturgeon (''Acipenser fulvescens''), also known as the rock sturgeon, is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon. Like other sturgeons, this species is a bottom feeder with evolutionarily basal t ...

Mountain Lion The cougar (''Puma concolor'') is a large cat native to the Americas. Its range spans from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes in South America and is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere. I ...

* Northern myotis * Tricoloured bat Threatened *

Bank swallow The sand martin (''Riparia riparia''), also known as the bank swallow (in the Americas), collared sand martin, or common sand martin, is a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family. It has a wide range in summer, embracing practically the w ...

Barn swallow The barn swallow (''Hirundo rustica'') is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. In fact, it appears to have the largest natural distribution of any of the world's passerines, ranging over 251 million square kilometres globally. ...

Blanding's turtle Blanding's turtle (''Emydoidea blandingii'') is a semi-aquatic turtle of the family Emydidae. This species is native to central and eastern parts of Canada and the United States. It is considered to be an endangered species throughout much of i ...

Cerulean warbler The cerulean warbler (''Setophaga cerulea'') is a small songbird in the family Parulidae. It is a long-distance migrant, breeding in eastern North American hardwood forests. In the non-breeding season, it winters on the eastern slope of the And ...

Least bittern The least bittern (''Ixobrychus exilis'') is a small heron, the smallest member of the family Ardeidae found in the Americas. Taxonomy The least bittern was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his re ...

Whip-poor-will The eastern whip-poor-will (''Antrostomus vociferus'') is a medium-sized (22–27 cm; 8.7-10.6 ins.) bird within the nightjar family, Caprimulgidae, from North America. The whip-poor-will is commonly heard within its range, but less of ...

Bobolink The bobolink (''Dolichonyx oryzivorus'') is a small New World blackbird and the only member of the genus ''Dolichonyx''. An old name for this species is the "rice bird", from its tendency to feed on cultivated grains during winter and migration. ...

In the many lakes, rivers and streams you can find: *

Black crappie The black crappie (''Pomoxis nigromaculatus'') is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two types of crappies. It is very similar to the white crappie in size, shape, and habits, except that it is darker, with a pattern of black sp ...

Bluegill The bluegill (''Lepomis macrochirus''), sometimes referred to as "bream", "brim", "sunny", or "copper nose" as is common in Texas, is a species of North American freshwater fish, native to and commonly found in streams, rivers, lakes, ponds and ...

Brook trout The brook trout (''Salvelinus fontinalis'') is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus ''Salvelinus'' of the salmon family Salmonidae. It is native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada, but has been introduced elsewhere ...

Bowfin The bowfin (''Amia calva'') is a bony fish, native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique. It is regarded as a relict, being the sole surviving species of the Halecomorphi ...

Burbot The burbot (''Lota lota'') is the only gadiform (cod-like) freshwater fish Freshwater fish are those that spend some or all of their lives in fresh water, such as rivers and lakes, with a salinity of less than 1.05%. These environments di ...

Common carp The Eurasian carp or European carp (''Cyprinus carpio''), widely known as the common carp, is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.Fishbase''Cyprinus carpio'' Linnaeus, 1758/ref>Arkive The ...

Lake trout The lake trout (''Salvelinus namaycush'') is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush, lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also ...

Largemouth bass The largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae ( sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico, but ...

Longnose gar The longnose gar (''Lepisosteus osseus''), also known as longnose garpike or billy gar, is a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. The genus may have been present in North America for about 100 million years. References are made to gars ...

Muskellunge The muskellunge ''(Esox masquinongy)'', often shortened to muskie, musky or lunge is a species of large freshwater predatory fish native to North America. It is the largest member of the pike family, Esocidae. Origin of name The name "muskellun ...

Northern pike The northern pike (''Esox lucius'') is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus '' Esox'' (the pikes). They are typical of brackish and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere (''i.e.'' holarctic in distribution). They are known simply as a ...

Pumpkinseed The pumpkinseed (''Lepomis gibbosus''), also referred to as pond perch, common sunfish, punkie, sunfish, sunny, and kivver, is a small/medium-sized North American freshwater fish of the genus ''Lepomis'' (true sunfishes), from family Centrarchi ...

Rainbow trout The rainbow trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead (sometimes called "steelhead trout") is an anadromous (sea-run) form of the coasta ...

Rock bass The rock bass (''Ambloplites rupestris''), also known as the rock perch, goggle-eye, red eye, and black perch, is a freshwater fish native to east-central North America. This red eyed creature is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish fa ...

* Smallmouth bass *

Walleye The walleye (''Sander vitreus'', synonym ''Stizostedion vitreum''), also called the yellow pike or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States. It is a North American close relat ...

White crappie The white crappie (''Pomoxis annularis'') is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two species of crappies. Alternate common names for the species include goldring and silver perch. is named for the fish. The genus name ''Pomoxis ...

Yellow perch The yellow perch (''Perca flavescens''), commonly referred to as perch, striped perch, American perch, American river perch or preacher is a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America. The yellow perch was described in 1814 by Samu ...

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