Madoc 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
Hastings County
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in
Eastern Ontario
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, Canada.
The township was named after
Welsh
Welsh may refer to:
Related to Wales
* Welsh, of or about Wales
* Welsh language, spoken in Wales
* Welsh people, an ethnic group native to Wales
Places
* Welsh, Arkansas, U.S.
* Welsh, Louisiana, U.S.
* Welsh, Ohio, U.S.
* Welsh Basin, during t ...
prince
Madoc ap Owain Gwynedd, credited by some with discovering
North America
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in 1170. There exists an alternative explanation, for which no evidence exists, that the name comes from a small Welsh village,
Llanmadoc, on the
Gower Peninsula
The Gower Peninsula (), or simply Gower (), is a peninsula in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is the most westerly part of the historic county of Glamorgan, and is now within the City and County of Swansea. It projects towards th ...
of Wales, not far from the city of
Swansea
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. Its post office dates from 1836.
Communities
The township of Madoc comprises several villages and hamlets, including communities such as Allen, Bannockburn, Cooper,
Eldorado, Fox Corners, Hazzards Corners, Keller Bridge, Rimington, and Empey.
File:Bannockburn ON.JPG, Bannockburn
File:Eldorado ON.JPG, Eldorado
History
Settlement of the township began around 1830, and it was incorporated on January 1, 1850.
Mills
Mills is the plural form of mill, but may also refer to:
As a name
* Mills (surname), a common family name of English or Gaelic origin
* Mills (given name)
*Mills, a fictional British secret agent in a trilogy by writer Manning O'Brine
Places U ...
and
ironworks
An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the singular of ''ironworks'' is ''ironworks''.
Ironworks succeeded bloome ...
gave initial stimulus to the community of Madoc. Following the discovery of gold-bearing quartz in 1866,
the community prospered as an industrial centre. In 1877, the community separated from the township and became an incorporated village municipality.
Eldorado, north of
Madoc village, was the site of Ontario's first
gold rush
A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, ...
on 18 August 1866 by Marcus Powell and William Berryman (or Nicholas Snider). They opened up a
limestone cave
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, 12 feet long, 6 feet wide and 6 feet high. The resultant mine was named the
Richardson Mine
The Richardson Mine was Ontario's first gold mine, opened by Marcus Herbert Powell in 1867. The mine's opening caused Ontario's first gold rush, prompting the founding of Eldorado, Ontario the same year.
After only 100 ounces of gold was extracte ...
, after John Richardson, owner of the farm where it was located. People soon came from all over North America to this area.
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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, Madoc 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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Notable people
* Charles Wilson Cross – Canadian politician. First Attorney-General of Alberta (1912–1918)
See also
*List of townships in Ontario
This is a list of township (Canada), townships in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. Townships are listed by List of census divisions of Ontario, census division.
Northern Ontario Northeastern Ontario Algoma D ...
References
External links
*
{{Hastings County
Township municipalities in Ontario
Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario
Municipalities in Hastings County