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The Nation, Ontario - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 45°21′00″N 75°02′00″W / 45.35°N 75.0333°W

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The Nation La Nation
Municipality (lower-tier)
The Nation Municipality Municipalité de La Nation
St. Isidore
The Nation The Nation Show map of Southern Ontario
Coordinates: 45°21′00″N 75°02′00″W / 45.35°N 75.0333°W / 45.35; -75.0333
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
County	Prescott and Russell
Incorporated	1998
Government
• Type	Township
• Mayor	Francis Brière
• Federal riding	Glengarry—Prescott—Russell
• Prov. riding	Glengarry—Prescott—Russell
Area ^[1]
• Total	658.32 km² (254.18 sq mi)
Population (2016)^[1]
• Total	12,808
• Density	19.5/km² (51/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Postal code	K0A, K0B
Area code	613
Website	www.nationmun.ca

The Nation (La Nation in French) is a municipality in Eastern Ontario, located within Canada's National Capital Region, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell. Formed in 1998, the municipality consists 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 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, Limoges, 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 of Lemieux, abandoned in the early 1990s, is also located within the municipality.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, The Nation had a population of 13,350 living in 5,104 of its 5,259 total private dwellings, a change of 4.2% from its 2016 population of 12,808. With a land area of 658.93 km² (254.41 sq mi), it had a population density of 20.3/km² (52.5/sq mi) in 2021.^[2]

Canada census – The Nation, Ontario community profile

	2016	2011
Population	12,808 (+9.8% from 2011)	11,668 (+9.4% from 2006)
Land area	658.32 km² (254.18 sq mi)	658.03 km² (254.07 sq mi)
Population density	19.5/km² (51/sq mi)	17.7/km² (46/sq mi)
Median age	39.0 (M: 38.8, F: 39.3)	38.8 (M: 38.6, F: 38.9)
Private dwellings	4,917 (total)	4,432 (total)
Median household income	$87,531	$83,564

Notes: Includes corrections and updates
References: 2016^[3] 2011^[4] earlier^[5]^[6]

Historical census populations – The Nation, Ontario

Year	Pop.	±%
1986	8,850	—
1991	9,727	+9.9%
1996	10,478	+7.7%
2001	10,599	+1.2%

Year	Pop.	±%
2006	11,078	+4.5%
2011	11,668	+5.3%
2016	12,808	+9.8%

Population amounts prior to 1998 are total of Caledonia TP, South Plantagenet TP, Cambridge TP, and St. Isidore VL.
Source: Statistics Canada

The Nation also contains one of the larger concentrations of Francophones in Ontario. According to the 2016 Canadian Census, 64.7% of the population have French as their first language, while 31.7% have English as their first language.

Attractions

The Nation Municipality is home to Calypso Water Park near Limoges and the Alfred Bog. The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has designated the Alfred Bog as "a provincially significant wetland and an Area of Natural and Scientific Interest." Species of interest include the palm warbler, northern pitcher-plant, pink lady's slipper, cottongrass, bog elfin and bog copper butterflies, and ebony boghaunter dragonfly. It also hosts one of the most southerly herds of moose. The bog is open to the public with a 272 m (892 ft) boardwalk for nature walks.^[7]

The Prescott and Russell Recreational Trail goes through the township.

The Larose Forest is also partially located in this municipality.

References

^ ^a ^b "Census Profile, 2016 Census: The Nation". Statistics Canada. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Ontario". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
^ "2016 Community Profiles". 2016 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. August 12, 2021. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
^ "2011 Community Profiles". 2011 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. March 21, 2019. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
^ "2006 Community Profiles". 2006 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. August 20, 2019.
^ "2001 Community Profiles". 2001 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. July 18, 2021.
^ The Alfred Bog Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club

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v t e United Counties of Prescott and Russell
Municipalities	Township of Alfred and Plantagenet Village of Casselman Champlain Township (L'Orignal - Vankleek Hill) City of Clarence-Rockland (Bourget - Rockland) Township of East Hawkesbury (Sainte-Anne-de-Prescott - Saint-Eugène) Town of Hawkesbury Township of Russell (Embrun) Municipality of The Nation (St. Isidore)
Unincorporated communities	Limoges
Airports	Embrun Aerodrome Hawkesbury Airport Hawkesbury (East) Airport Hawkesbury (Windover Field) Airport Pendleton Airport
Hockey teams	Embrun Panthers Rockland Nationals Saint-Isidore Eagles Vankleek Hill Cougars Hawkesbury Hawks Clarence Beavers
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