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Faraday is a
Arthur H. Shore, an independent prospector, first found uranium at his lot on Faraday township in 1948 or 1949. He founded Faraday Uranium Mines Limited in 1949, but injured himself shortly afterwards. The mine was active from 1957 to 1964 and then reopened as the Madawaksa Mine from 1975 to 1982.
The Greyhawk Uranium mine was active from 1955 to 1959 and reopened from 1962 to 1982.
The mines attracted workers to the area and housing for mine executives was built in Faraday and for workers in nearby Bancroft. The closure of the mines when the global supply for uranium diminished created significant hardship for the area.
township
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in the Canadian
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province of Ontario
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, located within Hastings County
Hastings County is located in the province of Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is located on the border of Eastern Ontario and Central Ontario. Hastings County is the second-largest county in Ontario, after Renfrew County, and its county sea ...
adjacent to the town of Bancroft.
History
The township of Faraday was first settled 1857, when iron ore deposits were discovered. Prior to the 1922 discovery of uranium,mica
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, feldspar
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, and other minerals were mined on a small scale in area. Inspired by finds of gold in nearby Eldorado (now Madoc
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According to the story, he was a son of Owain Gwyned ...
) in 1886–7 and onwards, many people moved to the area hoping to find gold.
The Barker Quarries operated South of Marble Lake sporadically from 1908 into the late 1930s providing marble for government buildings in Ottawa and Casa Loma
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and the Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year ...
in Toronto.
After the second world war
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, and the invention of atomic energy, a global demand for uranium increased and the Canadian government permitted uranium prospecting.
Arthur H. Shore, an independent prospector, first found uranium at his lot on Faraday township in 1948 or 1949. He founded Faraday Uranium Mines Limited in 1949, but injured himself shortly afterwards. The mine was active from 1957 to 1964 and then reopened as the Madawaksa Mine from 1975 to 1982.
The Greyhawk Uranium mine was active from 1955 to 1959 and reopened from 1962 to 1982.
The mines attracted workers to the area and housing for mine executives was built in Faraday and for workers in nearby Bancroft. The closure of the mines when the global supply for uranium diminished created significant hardship for the area.
Communities
The township of Faraday comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including the following communities such as Bow Lake, Faraday, Monck Road, and Paudash.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ...
, Faraday 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: 94.6%
* French as first language: 0.6%
* English and French as first language: 0%
* Other as first language: 4.7%
See also
*List of townships in Ontario
This is a list of townships in the Canadian province of Ontario. Townships are listed by census division.
Northern Ontario Northeastern Ontario Algoma District
Historical/Geographic Townships
*Abbott
*Aberdeen Additional
*Abigo
*Abotossaway
* ...
References
External links
* Township municipalities in Ontario Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario Municipalities in Hastings County {{Ontario-geo-stub