The Municipality of Centre Hastings is a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
in
Eastern Ontario
Eastern Ontario (census population 1,892,332 in 2021) () is a secondary region of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It occupies a wedge-shaped area bounded by the Ottawa River and Quebec to the northeast and east, the St. Lawr ...
, Canada, in
Hastings County
Hastings County is a county and census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. Geographically, it is located on the border of Eastern Ontario and Central Ontario. Hastings County is the second-largest county in Ontario, after Renfrew C ...
. It was formed on January 1, 1998, through the amalgamation of Huntingdon Township with the
Village of Madoc.
Communities
The municipality of Centre Hastings comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including the following communities such as Crookston (
), Fuller, Ivanhoe (
),
Madoc
Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd (also spelled Madog) was, according to folklore, a Welsh prince who sailed to the Americas in 1170, over 300 years before Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492. According to the story, Madoc was a son of Owain Gwynedd w ...
,
Moira, West Huntingdon (
), West Huntingdon Station (
); Buller Siding (partially), Fuller Station, Ivanhoe Station, Moira Lake,
Roslin, White Lake
Demographics
In the
2021 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
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, Centre Hastings 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.
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Mother tongue (2021):]
See also
*List of townships in Ontario
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References
External links
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Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario
Municipalities in Hastings County
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