Markstay-Warren is a town in the Canadian

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, located in the

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. Highway 17, from the city limits of

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to the Sudbury District's border with

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, lies entirely within Markstay-Warren. The town had a population of 2,708 in the

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. The town was created on January 1, 1999, by the amalgamation of the incorporated Townships of Ratter and Dunnet and Hagar, the

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of Awrey, and parts of the geographic townships of Hawley, Henry, Loughrin, and Street. Along with the

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of St. Charles and French River, it is part of the region known as Sudbury East.Sudbury East Planning Board
In the

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, Markstay-Warren was added for the first time to Greater Sudbury's

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Communities

The town includes the communities of Appleby Corner, Callum, Dunnet Corner, Hagar, Markstay, Rivière-Veuve, Stinson and Warren. Markstay is the location of the town's municipal offices. Stinson, Callum, Hagar and Warren are all located directly on Highway 17, a branch of the

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. Appleby Corner is located south of Hagar on Highway 535. The other communities are all located along local roads that branch off from one of these two highways. In 2010, planning commenced on a future extension of Highway 17's

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alignment in Sudbury, which will eventually see the freeway's eastern terminus located near Main Street into Markstay. Image:Hagar ON.jpg, Hagar
Image:Markstay ON.JPG, Markstay
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History

Much of the area owes its existence to the

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. Most settlers were

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who came by rail from the province of

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. Shortly after the completion of the transcontinental line of the CPR in 1885, a station and community was established at Rivière-Veuve, taking its name from the Veuve River that flows through this area. In 1890, the Warren family of Toronto established a sawmill, slightly east of Rivière-Veuve, operating under the name Imperial Lumber Company. A standard gauge logging railroad was also constructed to bring logs to the mill. In the first part of the 20th century, lumber and agriculture were the main economic activities in the area. By the 1960s, Warren's population and economy grew steadily and because of its proximity (60 km) to Sudbury, many area residents were employed in the mines of the Sudbury area. By the 1970s, important local employers included

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and the

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. The economic recession of the early 1990s hit the Warren area significantly hard as corporate restructuring and downsizing at Ontario Hydro and the OPP resulted in the closure of the Ontario Hydro office and reductions in staff at the OPP. As a consequence, Warren's population suffered and many residents moved to larger centres such as Sudbury or North Bay.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Markstay-Warren 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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* {{Sudbury District, Ontario Municipalities in Sudbury District Single-tier municipalities in Ontario

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