The Nation (''La Nation'' in

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) is a municipality 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 ...

, located within Canada's National Capital Region, in the

United Counties of Prescott and Russell The United Counties of Prescott and Russell () is a county located in the Canadian province of Ontario. Its county seat is L'Orignal. It is located in Eastern Ontario, in the wedge-shaped area between the Ottawa River and St. Lawrence River, ap ...

. The municipality was formed on January 1, 1998, through the amalgamation 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 The South Nation River is a river in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It springs from forests and marshes located north of Brockville, and it flows northeast to empty into the Ottawa River north of Plantagenet. Shows the river's course highlighted on a ...

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,

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, 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. The

ghost town A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...

of Lemieux, abandoned in the early 1990s, is also located within the municipality.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, 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. Lemieux ON

The Nation also contains one of the larger concentrations of Francophones in Ontario. According to the

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, 64.2% of the population use French as their first language, while 34.3% use English as their first language. Mother tongue (2021): * English as first language: 29.8 % * French as first language: 62.9 % * English and French as first language: 3.7 % * Other as first language: 3.2 %

Attractions

The Nation Municipality is home to Calypso Water Park near Limoges and the

Alfred Bog The Alfred Bog () is a domed peat bog in Eastern Ontario, Canada, about south of Alfred and east of Ottawa. The bog is considered the largest high-quality bog in Southern Ontario, and was designated by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources ...

. The Ontario

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has designated the Alfred Bog as "a provincially significant wetland and an

Area of Natural and Scientific Interest An Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (or ANSI) is an official designation by the provincial Government of Ontario in Canada applied to contiguous geographical regions within the province that have geological or ecological features which are si ...

." 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 s ...

, northern pitcher-plant, pink lady's slipper,

cottongrass ''Eriophorum'' (cottongrass, cotton-grass or cottonsedge) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cyperaceae, the sedge family. They are found in the cool temperate, alpine, and Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, primarily in the mi ...

, bog elfin and bog copper butterflies, and

ebony boghaunter ''Williamsonia fletcheri'', the ebony boghaunter, is a species of dragonfly in the emerald family Corduliidae. It is found in southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States. Larvae occur in acidic bogs. Taxonomy The ebony boghaunter wa ...

dragonfly. It also hosts one of the most southerly herds of

moose The moose (: 'moose'; used in North America) or elk (: 'elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (''Alces alces'') is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus ''Alces''. It is also the tal ...

. The bog is open to the public with a boardwalk for nature walks.The Alfred Bog
, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club The

Prescott and Russell Recreational Trail Prescott may refer to: People Given name * Prescott E. Bloom, American lawyer and politician * Prescott Bush, American banker and politician * Samuel Prescott Bush, American industrialist * Prescott F. Hall, American lawyer, author and eugenic ...

goes through the township. The

Larose Forest Larose Forest is a man-made forest in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada. It is about east of Ottawa, straddling the boundary of Clarence-Rockland and The Nation, Ontario, The Nation municipality. The forest, part of t ...

is also partially located in this municipality.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nation, The Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario Municipalities in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell

Communities

Demographics

Attractions

See also

References

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