Unorganized Centre Parry Sound District is an
unorganized area
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in central
Ontario
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, Canada, between
Georgian Bay
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and
Lake Nipissing
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Within the geographical areas of Canada, the ten provinces and three territories are sub-national administrative divisions under ...
in the
District of Parry Sound
Parry Sound District is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. Its boundaries are District of Muskoka to the south, the Sudbury District to the north-northwest, the French River and Lake Nipissing in the north, Nipissing Distric ...
. It is made up of
geographic townships which have no governing bodies and which are not incorporated as municipalities. The territory consists of two non-contiguous areas, with the main part located directly south of the
French River and Lake Nipissing, and east of Georgian Bay.
Shawanaga Township
Shawanaga is an unincorporated geographic township in the Unorganized Centre Part of Parry Sound District in central Ontario, Canada.
The communities of Madigans and Skerryvore are in the township, as is a portion of Round Lake Provincial Pa ...
is a small
exclave
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south of it along
Highway 69.
Local services boards
*
Britt and
Byng Inlet
*
Loring, Port Loring and District
Loring, Port Loring and District is a local services board in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Parry Sound District, and by extension, the Almaguin Highlands region.
The board administers services in the geographic townships of Blair ...
*
Restoule
Restoule is a community and designated place in geographic Patterson Township in the Centre Unorganized Part of Parry Sound District in Central Ontario, Canada. It is situated on the Restoule River between Commanda Lake, and Restoule Lake an ...
Townships
List of townships with its communities:
*
Blair Township (Ess Narrows Landing,
Lost Channel)
*
East Mills Township (Arnstein, Loring, Port Loring)
*
Hardy Township (Spring Creek)
*
Henvey Township (Britt Station, Still River)
*
Lount Township (Bummer's Roost, Rye, Wattenwyle)
*
McConkey Township (Fleming's Landing)
*
Mowat Township (Bon Air, Cranberry, Key River, Ludgate, Mowat,
Pakesley, Wanikewin)
*
Patterson Township (
Restoule
Restoule is a community and designated place in geographic Patterson Township in the Centre Unorganized Part of Parry Sound District in Central Ontario, Canada. It is situated on the Restoule River between Commanda Lake, and Restoule Lake an ...
)
*
Pringle Township
Pringle is an unorganized geographic township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada. It is topographically part of the Almaguin Highlands region, and is part of the census subdivision of Unorganized Centre Parry Sound District. The township i ...
(Bear Valley, Carr, Farleys Corners, Golden Valley)
*
Shawanaga Township
Shawanaga is an unincorporated geographic township in the Unorganized Centre Part of Parry Sound District in central Ontario, Canada.
The communities of Madigans and Skerryvore are in the township, as is a portion of Round Lake Provincial Pa ...
(Madigans)
*
Wallbridge Township (
Britt,
Byng Inlet, Drocourt, Harris Lake, North Magnetawan)
*
Wilson Township
In addition, the division also includes two geographic townships which are entirely unpopulated:
*Brown Township
*Harrison Township
Demographics
Mother tongue:
[Statistics Canada 2006 Census ]
Parry Sound, Unorganized, Centre Part community profile
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* English as first language: 91.5%
* French as first language: 4.6%
* English and French as first language: 0%
* Other as first language: 3.9%
Population trend:[Statistics Canada: ]1996
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, 2006
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census
* Population in 2011: 2199
* Population in 2006: 2424
* Population in 2001: 2198
* Population in 1996: 3336 (or 2082 when adjusted to 2001 boundaries)
* Population in 1991: 3394
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
{{Parry Sound District
Geography of Parry Sound District
Parry Sound Centre