North Frontenac is a

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in eastern

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History

North Frontenac was created on January 1, 1998, by the amalgamation of three municipalities: the Township of Barrie; the Township of Clarendon and Miller; and the Township of Palmerston, North and South Canonto.

Geography

North Frontenac is in the heart of Eastern Ontario's cottage country. Cottages and campsites dot the shores of the Township's many clean lakes. Located entirely on the Canadian Shield, the landscape can often be rough and unpredictable, but at the same time provides scenic vistas. Residents, both permanent and seasonal, enjoy a wide variety of outdoor activities. The Township is bordered by

Greater Madawaska Greater Madawaska is an incorporated township in Renfrew County in eastern Ontario, Canada, created on January 1, 2001, through the amalgamation of the Township of Bagot and Blythfield, the Township of Brougham, and the Township of Griffith and ...

to the north,

Addington Highlands Addington Highlands is a township in central eastern Ontario, Canada, in the County of Lennox and Addington. Bon Echo Provincial Park is located primarily in Addington Highlands. History Addington Highlands was formed on january 1, 1998, throu ...

to the west,

Central Frontenac Central Frontenac is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the County of Frontenac. Central Frontenac was created on January 1, 1998, through an amalgamation of the Townships of Hinchinbrooke, Kennebec, Olden, and Oso. Communities There a ...

to the south and

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to the east.

Communities

The township includes the communities of Ardoch, Beatty, Beech Corners, Canonto, Coxvale, Donaldson, Fernleigh, Harlowe, Mississippi Station, Myers Cave, Ompah, Plevna, Robertsville, Snow Road Station and Wilbur.

Lakes

Lakes of notable size within the Township's borders are:

Fauna

With the Township consisting of a significant portion of

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administered by the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry, North Frontenac is home to many of Ontario's endangered and threatened animals such as; Endangered: *

American eel The American eel (''Anguilla rostrata'') is a facultative catadromous eel found on the eastern coast of North America. Anguillidae, Freshwater eels are fish belonging to the Elopomorpha, elopomorph superorder, a group of Phylogenetics, phylogen ...

American ginseng American ginseng (''Panax quinquefolius'') is a species of flowering plant in the ivy family (biology), family Araliaceae. It is native to eastern North America and has been introduced into China. The specific epithet ''quinquefolius'' means "fiv ...

Butternut tree ''Juglans cinerea'', commonly known as butternut or white walnut,Snow, Charles Henry ''The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties'' 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1908. p. 56. is a species of walnut native to the e ...

Eastern small-footed myotis The eastern small-footed bat (''Myotis leibii'') is a species of vesper bat. It can be found in southern Ontario and Quebec in Canada and in mountainous portions of the eastern United States from New England to northern Georgia, and westward to n ...

Golden eagle The golden eagle (''Aquila chrysaetos'') is a bird of prey living in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the most widely distributed species of eagle. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. They are one of the best-known bird of pr ...

Lake sturgeon The lake sturgeon (''Huso fulvescens''), also known as the rock sturgeon, is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of 27 species of sturgeon. Like other sturgeons, this species is a bottom feeder and has a partly cartilaginous skele ...

Mountain Lion The cougar (''Puma concolor'') (, ''Help:Pronunciation respelling key, KOO-gər''), also called puma, mountain lion, catamount and panther is a large small cat native to the Americas. It inhabits North America, North, Central America, Cent ...

Northern myotis ''Myotis septentrionalis'', known as the northern long-eared bat or northern myotis, is a species of bat native to North America. There are no recognized subspecies. The northern long-eared bat is about 3–3.7 inches in length, with a wingspan ...

Tricoloured bat The tricolored bat (''Perimyotis subflavus'') or American perimyotis is a species of microbat native to eastern North America. Formerly known as the eastern pipistrelle, based on the incorrect belief that it was closely related to European '' P ...

Threatened: * Bank swallow *

Barn swallow The barn swallow (''Hirundo rustica'') is the most widespread species of swallow in the world, occurring on all continents, with vagrants reported even in Antarctica. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts and a long, deeply f ...

Blanding's turtle Blanding's turtle (''Emydoidea blandingii)'' is a species of semi-aquatic turtle of the Family (biology), family Emydidae. This species is native to central and eastern parts of Canada and the United States. It is considered to be an endangered s ...

Cerulean warbler The cerulean warbler (''Setophaga cerulea'') is a small songbird in the family Parulidae. It is a long-distance migrant, breeding in eastern North American hardwood forests. In the non-breeding season, it winters on the eastern slope of the Ande ...

Least bittern The least bittern (''Botaurus exilis'') is a small heron, the smallest member of the family Ardeidae found in the Americas. This species was formerly placed in the genus ''Ixobrychus''. Taxonomy The least bittern was Species description, forma ...

Whip-poor-will The eastern whip-poor-will (''Antrostomus vociferus''; also called "whip-o-will", "whip o' will", etc.) is a medium-sized () bird within the nightjar family, Caprimulgidae, from North America. The whip-poor-will is commonly heard within its ran ...

Bobolink The bobolink (''Dolichonyx oryzivorus'') is a small New World blackbird and the only member of the genus ''Dolichonyx''. An old name for this species is the "rice bird", from its tendency to feed on cultivated grains during winter and migration. ...

In the many lakes, rivers and streams you can find: *

Black crappie The black crappie (''Pomoxis nigromaculatus'') is a freshwater fish in the sunfish family ( Centrarchidae). It is endemic to North America, one of the two types of crappies. It is very similar to the white crappie (''P. annularis'') in size, s ...

Bluegill The bluegill (''Lepomis macrochirus''), sometimes referred to as "bream", "brim", "sunny", or, in Texas, "copper nose", is a species of North American freshwater fish, native to and commonly found in streams, rivers, lakes, ponds and wetlands ea ...

Brook trout The brook trout (''Salvelinus fontinalis'') is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus ''Salvelinus'' of the salmon family Salmonidae native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada. Two ecological forms of brook trout h ...

Bowfin The ruddy bowfin (''Amia calva'') is a ray-finned fish native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique. It is regarded as a relict, being one of only two surviving species ...

Burbot The burbot (''Lota lota''), also known as bubbot, mariah, loche, cusk, freshwater cod, freshwater ling, freshwater cusk, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, or eelpout, is a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of ...

Common carp The common carp (''Cyprinus carpio''), also known as European carp, Eurasian carp, or simply carp, is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.Fishbase''Cyprinus carpio'' Linnaeus, 1758/ref>Ark ...

Lake trout The lake trout (''Salvelinus namaycush'') is a freshwater Salvelinus, char living mainly in lakes in Northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush, lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, laker, and grey trout. In Lake Sup ...

Largemouth bass The largemouth bass (''Micropterus nigricans'') is a carnivorous, freshwater fish, freshwater, ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern United States, eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada an ...

Longnose gar The longnose gar (''Lepisosteus osseus''), also known as longnose garpike or billy gar, is a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. The genus may have been present in North America for about 100 million years. References are made to gar ...

Muskellunge The muskellunge (''Esox masquinongy''), often shortened to muskie, musky, ski, or lunge, is a species of large freshwater predatory fish native to North America. It is the largest member of the pike family, Esocidae. Origin of name The name ...

Northern pike The northern pike (''Esox lucius'') is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus ''Esox'' (pikes). They are commonly found in brackish water, moderately salty and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere (''i.e.'' holarctic in distribution). T ...

Pumpkinseed The pumpkinseed (''Lepomis gibbosus''), also referred to as sun perch, pond perch, common sunfish, punkie, sunfish, sunny, and kivver, is a small to medium–sized freshwater fish of the genus ''Lepomis'' (true sunfishes), from the sunfish fami ...

Rainbow trout The rainbow trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') is a species of trout native to cold-water tributary, tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia. The steelhead (sometimes called steelhead trout) is an Fish migration#Classification, ...

Rock bass The rock bass (''Ambloplites rupestris''), also known as the rock perch, goggle-eye, red eye, and black perch, is a freshwater fish native to east-central North America. This red-eyed fish is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family (bi ...

Smallmouth bass The smallmouth bass (''Micropterus dolomieu'') is a species of freshwater fish in the Centrarchidae, sunfish family (biology), family (Centrarchidae) of the order (biology), order Centrarchiformes. It is the type species of its genus ''Micropterus ...

Walleye The walleye (''Sander vitreus'', Synonym (taxonomy), synonym ''Stizostedion vitreum''), also called the walleyed pike, yellow pike, yellow pikeperch or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern ...

White crappie The white crappie (''Pomoxis annularis'') is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two species of crappies. Alternate common names for the species include goldring, silver perch, white perch and sac-a-lait. is named for the fish ...

Yellow perch The yellow perch (''Perca flavescens''), commonly referred to as perch, striped perch, American perch or preacher is a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America. The yellow perch was described in 1814 by Samuel Latham Mitchill fr ...

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, North Frontenac 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 (2021): * English as first language: 93.4% * French as first language: 2.0% * Other as first language: 3.7%

Local government

North Frontenac is governed by a mayor, a deputy mayor (who serves as both deputy mayor and councilor) and five councilors. Each municipal ward is represented by two councilors. The Mayor and one other member of Council represent the municipality on the Frontenac County Council.

Current government

Source: * Mayor: Gerry Lichty * Deputy Mayor: John Inglis * Councilors: ** Ward 1: Wayne Good ** Ward 1: Stephanie Regent ** Ward 2: Vernon Hermer ** Ward 2: Roy Huetl ** Ward 3: Fred Fowler ** Ward 3: John Inglis

List of former mayors

Mayors of the Township of North Frontenac: * 1998–2003: Stan Johnson * 2003–2010: Ron Maguire * 2010–2014: Bud Clayton * 2015–2022: Ron Higgins

Pre-Amalgamation

Reeves of the former Township of Barrie * 1873–1873: T. Tapping * 1874–1874: D. Kenyon * 1875–1875: D. Kenyon * 1876–1878: T. Tapping * 1879–1881: R. Scott * 1882–1882: T. Tapping * 1883–1883: R. Tapping * 1884–1886: A. Wickware * 1887–1887: Wm. Dempsey * 1888–1893: T. Tapping * 1894–1894: G. Deline * 1895–1895: G. Deline * 1896–1896: Wm. Salmond * 1897–1897: G. Deline * 1898–1898: J. Mitchell * 1899–1899: J. Mitchell * 1900–1900: G. Deline / Wm. Salmond * 1901–1904: Wm. Salmond * 1905–1905: G. Deline * 1906–1906: G. Deline * 1907–1909: C. Macgregor * 1910–1913: Wm. Salmond * 1914–1917: J. Gray * 1918–1926: C. Macgregor * 1927–1933: S. Wheeler * 1934–1942: H. Levere * 1943–1951: A. Macgregor * 1952–1952: A. Hillier * 1953–1957: J. Head * 1958–1966: J. Hill * 1967–1988: T. Neal * 1989–1990: W. Van Kempen * 1991–1997: T. Neal Reeves of the former Township of Clarendon and Miller * 1865–1882: B. Watkins. (one of the first settlers in Clarendon) * 1883–1885: J. Howell * 1886–1891: J. Howell * 1892–1892: B. Watkins * 1893–1896: A. Monroe * 1897–1900: J.F. Card * 1901–1901: B. Watkins * 1902–1904: J. Mcdonald * 1905–1905: S.S. Barton * 1906–1906: J. Mcdonald * 1907–1907: J. Mcdonald * 1908–1912: J.D. Godkin * 1913–1913: J.F. Card * 1914–1914: J.F. Card * 1915–1919: P.J. Wensley * 1920–1922: T. Armstrong * 1923–1928: J. Flake * 1929–1931: J. Brouse * 1932–1934: J. Flake * 1935–1951: L. Kring * 1952–1954: C. Armstrong * 1955–1955: L. Kring * 1956–1956: G. Kring * 1957–1957: C. Armstrong * 1958–1974: G. Kring * 1975–1984: Wm. Flieler * 1985–1997: S. Johnston Reeves of the former Township of Palmerston, North and South Canonto. * 1896–1901: J. Mckenzie * 1902–1902: P. White * 1903–1903: J. Moore * 1904–1904: R. Wood * 1905–1905: Wm. Millar * 1906–1908: D. Wood * 1909–1909: Wm. Donaldson * 1910–1910: D. Wood * 1911–1915: Wm. Donaldson * 1916–1924: D. Gemmill * 1925–1932: S.J. Shanks * 1933–1949: A.C. Rhodes * 1950–1952: W.B. Cameron * 1953–1972: A. Trombley * 1973–1976: R. Ryder * 1977–1988: B. Sproule * 1989–1991: B. Carnell * 1992–1997: B. Sproule

Attractions

The municipality is host to

Bon Echo Provincial Park Bon Echo Provincial Park is a List of Ontario Parks, provincial park in southeastern Ontario, Canada, approximately north of Cloyne, Ontario, Cloyne. The park is within township boundaries of both North Frontenac and Addington Highlands, roughl ...

(shared with

) and the North Frontenac Parklands. On August 3, 2013, North Frontenac became the first municipality in Canada to achieve Dark Sky Preserve Status by the

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Education

Students attend the Clarendon Central Public School in Plevna, ON (JK to Grade 8), the North Addington Education Centre in Cloyne, ON (JK to Grade 12) or the Granite Ridge Education Centre in Sharbot Lake, ON (JK to Grade 12). All schools are part of the

Limestone District School Board Limestone District School Board (LDSB, known as English-language Public District School Board No. 27 prior to 1999) is an English public district school board encompassing a region that includes the City of Kingston and the counties of Frontena ...

References

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