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The Nation (''La Nation'' in French) is a municipality in
The Nation also contains one of the larger concentrations of Francophones in Ontario. According to the 2016 Canadian Census, 64.7% of the population have French as their first language, while 31.7% have English as their first language.
The Alfred Bog
Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club The Prescott and Russell Recreational Trail goes through the township. The Larose Forest is also partially located in this municipality.
Eastern Ontario
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, located within Canada's National Capital Region
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, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell. Formed in 1998, the municipality consists of the former townships of Caledonia, Cambridge and South Plantagenet, as well as the Village of St. Isidore.
The municipality is crossed by the South Nation River after which the municipality was named.
Communities
The township comprises the communities of Benoit, Bradley Creek, Caledonia Springs, Fenaghvale, Forest Park, Fournier, Franklins Corners, Gagnon, Johnsons Ferry, Lalonde, Limoges, Longtinville, Martels Corners, Mayerville, Parkers Corners, Proulx, Riceville, Routhier, Sandown, Skye, St. Albert, St. Amour, St. Bernardin, Ste-Rose-de-Prescott, St. Isidore and Velfranc. The township administrative offices are located north of Casselman on Route 500, with a satellite office in Fournier. Theghost town
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* ''Ghost Town'' (1936 film), an American Western film by Harry L. Fraser
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of Lemieux, abandoned in the early 1990s, is also located within the municipality.
Demographics
In the2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by Statistics Canada, The Nation 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.
The Nation also contains one of the larger concentrations of Francophones in Ontario. According to the 2016 Canadian Census, 64.7% of the population have French as their first language, while 31.7% have English as their first language.
Attractions
The Nation Municipality is home to Calypso Water Park near Limoges and the Alfred Bog. The OntarioMinistry of Natural Resources and Forestry
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has designated the Alfred Bog as "a provincially significant wetland and an Area of Natural and Scientific Interest
Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a region on the plane or on a curved surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an o ...
." Species of interest include the palm warbler
The palm warbler (''Setophaga palmarum'') is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
Description
Measurements:
* Length:
* Weight:
* Wingspan:
Taxonomy
The species comprises two distinct subspecies that may merit specific stat ...
, northern pitcher-plant, pink lady's slipper, cottongrass, bog elfin and bog copper butterflies, and ebony boghaunter dragonfly. It also hosts one of the most southerly herds of moose
The moose (in North America) or elk (in Eurasia) (''Alces alces'') is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the only species in the genus ''Alces''. It is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family. Most adult ma ...
. The bog is open to the public with a boardwalk for nature walks.Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club The Prescott and Russell Recreational Trail goes through the township. The Larose Forest is also partially located in this municipality.
See also
*Transit Eastern Ontario
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General information
The last two digits of route numbers correspond to service a ...
operated under the authority of ''The North Glengarry Prescott Russell (NGPR) Transport Board''
* List of townships in Ontario
*List of francophone communities in Ontario
This is a list of francophone communities in the Canadian province of Ontario. Municipalities with a high percentage of French-speakers in Ontario are listed.
The provincial average of Ontarians whose mother tongue is French is 4.1%, with a ...
References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nation, The Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario Municipalities in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell