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West Nipissing

January 01, 1970

West Nipissing is a municipality in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, on Lake Nipissing in the Nipissing District. It was formed on January 1, 1999, with the amalgamation of seventeen and a half former towns, villages, townships and unorganized communities.

West Nipissing
Nipissing-Ouest
Municipality (single-tier)
Municipality of West Nipissing
Municipalité de Nipissing-Ouest
Power dam on the Sturgeon River in Sturgeon Falls.
Coordinates: 46°22′N 79°55′W / 46.367°N 79.917°W / 46.367; -79.917
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
DistrictNipissing
EstablishedJanuary 1, 1999
Government
 • MayorKathleen Thorne Rochon
 • Governing BodyWest Nipissing Town Council
 • MPsMarc Serré (Liberal)
 • MPPsJohn Vanthof (NDP)
Area
[1]
 • Total1,993.63 km2 (769.74 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[2]
 • Total14,364
 • Density7.2/km2 (19/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC−5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal Code
P0H, P2B
Area code(s)705, 249
Websitewww.westnipissing.ca

It is the most bilingual community in Ontario, with 73.4% of its population fluent in both English and French.

Communities edit

The primary administrative and commercial centre of West Nipissing is the community of Sturgeon Falls, which is situated on the Sturgeon River, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of Lake Nipissing and 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of North Bay on Highway 17, part of the Trans-Canada Highway. Roughly half the population of West Nipissing lives in Sturgeon Falls.

Field is located on Highway 64, approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Sturgeon Falls. In 1979, the Sturgeon River overflowed its banks, flooding the town's centre. Many houses were demolished and rebuilt on higher ground nearby. The Thistle Fire Tower is to be dismantled and re-erected here as a tourist attraction. Logging, farming and outdoor recreational activities are main village industries.

Verner is located on the Veuve River (Rivière Veuve), at the western junction of highways 17 and 64, approximately 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west of Sturgeon Falls. The largely francophone community serves as an agricultural hub for the surrounding area and offers a consumers' cooperative and farm equipment dealers. The town was named for the wife of Canadian Pacific Railway superintendent Archer Baker, who oversaw the laying of track through the West Nipissing area in the 1880s.

Many of the francophone settlers immigrated to the area from Michigan in the late 19th century in order to preserve their language; they were concerned they would lose their language in the predominantly anglophone United States. Many of the families that settled in Lavigne and Verner came from the Lanaudière region of Quebec from villages such as St-Félix-de-Valois, St-Gabriel-de-Brandon and Ste-Élisabeth.

Smaller communities in the municipality include Cache Bay, Caderette, Crystal Falls, Desaulniers, Evansville, Harfred, Kirk, Lavigne, Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Domrémy and River Valley. It also includes part of the North Monetville area, which straddles the boundary between West Nipissing and French River. The Nipissing First Nation is also located nearby and is closely associated with West Nipissing.

Cache Bay, named after the nearby water feature on a "hidden bay" of Lake Nipissing, had a post office that was established in 1889.[3]

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    Field
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    Verner
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    River Valley
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    Desaulniers

History edit

The original inhabitants of the area are the N'Biissing, an Anishinabek people, and many N'Biissing still inhabit the area today. A trading post was founded in the last quarter of the 18th century on an island on Lake Nipissing at the mouth of the La Vase River, called Fort La Ronde and was operated by Louis Denis de la Ronde (1675–1741). Fort La Ronde was moved numerous times to different islands on Lake Nipissing. It was later sold to North West Company. It was later bought by the Hudson's Bay Company around 1820 and was later relocated on the right bank of the river several hundred metres below the falls, at the mouth of Sturgeon River, trading with the N'Biissing for furs and other goods.[4] James R. Holditch of Utterson, Ontario is generally credited as being the first permanent non-aboriginal settler in the area.[5][6] He arrived in 1878 and built a cabin on the left bank, near the waterfalls. Nowadays, the Sturgeon River House Museum sits where the HBC trading post was. It was founded as a centennial project in 1967 by the Historical Restoration Committee of the Sturgeon Falls Secondary High School, the Township of Springer and the Town of Cache Bay, in cooperation and funded by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario. It was renovated and re-opened in 1999 and upgraded to include a permanent building capable of being open year-round and vastly improved its exhibits. It is now an agency of the Municipality of West Nipissing and supports the West Nipissing tax base.[7]

The region began to grow in the 1880s, with the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the efforts of Fr. Charles Alfred Marie Paradis, an Oblate missionary, to develop an agricultural settlement for Franco-Ontarians in the Verner area.

The development of Sturgeon Falls began in 1881 with the arrival of Canadian Pacific Railway construction crews. The area's first post office was opened in Sturgeon Falls in 1881. Lumbering and the establishment of pulp and paper industries accelerated the village's growth and attracted many French-Canadian settlers to the area.[8]

The addition of sawmills and the rapid growth of the lumbering and pulp and paper industries stimulated the development of the village and attracted many French-Canadian settlers to the area. The town of Sturgeon Falls was incorporated on April 16, 1895. At the time, J. A. Lévis was elected the first mayor and the population was 850.

The Canadian Pacific Railway was joined by the Canadian Northern Railway in 1915, with its line between Capreol and North Bay. This line later became the Canadian National Railway Alderdale Subdivision, with station stops (from east to west) in Harfred, Crystal Falls, Ashburton, Field, Desaulniers, and River Valley, along with several industrial spurs to serve local industries.[9] CN rail service declined in the mid-20th century and was eliminated altogether in 1996.[10]

The community of Field suffered two significant natural disasters in the 1970s. On August 20, 1970, it was hit by a small tornado associated with the Sudbury tornado event. In the spring of 1979 the Sturgeon River overflowed its banks at Field, causing massive flooding in the town's centre.[11] Half the town that was located in the flood plain was relocated to higher ground two kilometres south of the original town centre on Highway 64. This new location is known as New Field (Val-des-Arbres).

Demographics edit

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, West Nipissing had a population of 14,583 living in 6,413 of its 7,252 total private dwellings, a change of 1.5% from its 2016 population of 14,364. With a land area of 1,956.27 km2 (755.32 sq mi), it had a population density of 7.5/km2 (19.3/sq mi) in 2021.[12]

Canada census – West Nipissing community profile
20162011
Population14,364 (1.5% from 2011)14,149 (5.5% from 2006)
Land area1,993.68 km2 (769.76 sq mi)1,992.08 km2 (769.15 sq mi)
Population density7.2/km2 (19/sq mi)7.1/km2 (18/sq mi)
Median age45.5 (M: 45.0, F: 46.0)47.1 (M: 46.7, F: 47.5)
Private dwellings7,013 (total)  7,156 (total) 
Median household income$55,390
References: 2016[13] 2011[14] earlier[15][16]

Transportation edit

Ontario Northland motor coach service makes scheduled stops in Sturgeon Falls and Verner.[17]

Media and education edit

The region is served primarily by broadcast stations from North Bay and Sudbury. Two commercial radio stations, CFSF-FM and CHYQ-FM,[18] broadcast from Sturgeon Falls.

The area has a bilingual weekly newspaper, Tribune: West Nipissing This Week / La Voix du Nipissing Ouest, which was previously called The Sturgeon Falls Tribune. It is also served by the daily North Bay Nugget.

Students attend either Northern Secondary School (École secondaire publique Northern) or École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité.

Notable people edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "West Nipissing / Nipissing Ouest, Ontario (Code 3548055) census profile". 2011 Census of Population. Statistics Canada. 8 February 2012. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
  2. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census: West Nipissing". Statistics Canada. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
  3. ^ Hamilton, William (1978). The Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names. Toronto: Macmillan. p. 139. ISBN 0-7715-9754-1.
  4. ^ . Archived from the original on January 9, 2007. Retrieved December 23, 2018.
  5. ^ "James Holditch (1851- 1913)". HFHS Journal (20). May 2002.
  6. ^ "Sturgeon Falls Settler Dies". Ottawa Journal. July 15, 1913. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  7. ^ "Sturgeon River House Museum". Municipality of West Nipissing. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
  8. ^ "Founding of Sturgeon Falls". Ontario Heritage Trust. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
  9. ^ "Alderdale Subdivision". CNR in Ontario. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  10. ^ Canadian Transportation Agency (18 April 1996), Order No. 1996-R-152, retrieved 25 July 2020
  11. ^ "Water level still rising in stricken Ontario town". The Globe and Mail, May 1, 1979.
  12. ^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Ontario". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  13. ^ "2016 Community Profiles". 2016 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. August 12, 2021. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  14. ^ "2011 Community Profiles". 2011 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. March 21, 2019. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
  15. ^ "2006 Community Profiles". 2006 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. August 20, 2019.
  16. ^ "2001 Community Profiles". 2001 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. July 18, 2021.
  17. ^ https://www.ontarionorthland.ca/communications/schedules/new/2023-09-15-SCHED-501-502-EN.PDF
  18. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-2
  19. ^ McGill Reporter – Volume 28 Number 8
  20. ^ "Roxy dies from injuries (continued from page 1)". Simcoe Reformere. Simcoe, Ontario. February 28, 1975. p. 12.

External links edit

  • Official website

January 01, 1970
west, nipissing, municipality, northeastern, ontario, canada, lake, nipissing, nipissing, district, formed, january, 1999, with, amalgamation, seventeen, half, former, towns, villages, townships, unorganized, communities, nipissing, ouestmunicipality, single, . West Nipissing is a municipality in Northeastern Ontario Canada on Lake Nipissing in the Nipissing District It was formed on January 1 1999 with the amalgamation of seventeen and a half former towns villages townships and unorganized communities West NipissingNipissing OuestMunicipality single tier Municipality of West NipissingMunicipalite de Nipissing OuestPower dam on the Sturgeon River in Sturgeon Falls Coordinates 46 22 N 79 55 W 46 367 N 79 917 W 46 367 79 917CountryCanadaProvinceOntarioDistrictNipissingEstablishedJanuary 1 1999Government MayorKathleen Thorne Rochon Governing BodyWest Nipissing Town Council MPsMarc Serre Liberal MPPsJohn Vanthof NDP Area 1 Total1 993 63 km2 769 74 sq mi Population 2016 2 Total14 364 Density7 2 km2 19 sq mi Time zoneUTC 5 EST Summer DST UTC 4 EDT Postal CodeP0H P2BArea code s 705 249Websitewww wbr westnipissing wbr ca It is the most bilingual community in Ontario with 73 4 of its population fluent in both English and French Contents 1 Communities 2 History 3 Demographics 4 Transportation 5 Media and education 6 Notable people 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksCommunities editThe primary administrative and commercial centre of West Nipissing is the community of Sturgeon Falls which is situated on the Sturgeon River 5 kilometres 3 1 mi north of Lake Nipissing and 35 kilometres 22 mi west of North Bay on Highway 17 part of the Trans Canada Highway Roughly half the population of West Nipissing lives in Sturgeon Falls Field is located on Highway 64 approximately 20 kilometres 12 mi north of Sturgeon Falls In 1979 the Sturgeon River overflowed its banks flooding the town s centre Many houses were demolished and rebuilt on higher ground nearby The Thistle Fire Tower is to be dismantled and re erected here as a tourist attraction Logging farming and outdoor recreational activities are main village industries Verner is located on the Veuve River Riviere Veuve at the western junction of highways 17 and 64 approximately 16 kilometres 9 9 mi west of Sturgeon Falls The largely francophone community serves as an agricultural hub for the surrounding area and offers a consumers cooperative and farm equipment dealers The town was named for the wife of Canadian Pacific Railway superintendent Archer Baker who oversaw the laying of track through the West Nipissing area in the 1880s Many of the francophone settlers immigrated to the area from Michigan in the late 19th century in order to preserve their language they were concerned they would lose their language in the predominantly anglophone United States Many of the families that settled in Lavigne and Verner came from the Lanaudiere region of Quebec from villages such as St Felix de Valois St Gabriel de Brandon and Ste Elisabeth Smaller communities in the municipality include Cache Bay Caderette Crystal Falls Desaulniers Evansville Harfred Kirk Lavigne Notre Dame du Lac Domremy and River Valley It also includes part of the North Monetville area which straddles the boundary between West Nipissing and French River The Nipissing First Nation is also located nearby and is closely associated with West Nipissing Cache Bay named after the nearby water feature on a hidden bay of Lake Nipissing had a post office that was established in 1889 3 nbsp Field nbsp Verner nbsp River Valley nbsp DesaulniersHistory editThe original inhabitants of the area are the N Biissing an Anishinabek people and many N Biissing still inhabit the area today A trading post was founded in the last quarter of the 18th century on an island on Lake Nipissing at the mouth of the La Vase River called Fort La Ronde and was operated by Louis Denis de la Ronde 1675 1741 Fort La Ronde was moved numerous times to different islands on Lake Nipissing It was later sold to North West Company It was later bought by the Hudson s Bay Company around 1820 and was later relocated on the right bank of the river several hundred metres below the falls at the mouth of Sturgeon River trading with the N Biissing for furs and other goods 4 James R Holditch of Utterson Ontario is generally credited as being the first permanent non aboriginal settler in the area 5 6 He arrived in 1878 and built a cabin on the left bank near the waterfalls Nowadays the Sturgeon River House Museum sits where the HBC trading post was It was founded as a centennial project in 1967 by the Historical Restoration Committee of the Sturgeon Falls Secondary High School the Township of Springer and the Town of Cache Bay in cooperation and funded by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario It was renovated and re opened in 1999 and upgraded to include a permanent building capable of being open year round and vastly improved its exhibits It is now an agency of the Municipality of West Nipissing and supports the West Nipissing tax base 7 The region began to grow in the 1880s with the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway CPR and the efforts of Fr Charles Alfred Marie Paradis an Oblate missionary to develop an agricultural settlement for Franco Ontarians in the Verner area The development of Sturgeon Falls began in 1881 with the arrival of Canadian Pacific Railway construction crews The area s first post office was opened in Sturgeon Falls in 1881 Lumbering and the establishment of pulp and paper industries accelerated the village s growth and attracted many French Canadian settlers to the area 8 The addition of sawmills and the rapid growth of the lumbering and pulp and paper industries stimulated the development of the village and attracted many French Canadian settlers to the area The town of Sturgeon Falls was incorporated on April 16 1895 At the time J A Levis was elected the first mayor and the population was 850 The Canadian Pacific Railway was joined by the Canadian Northern Railway in 1915 with its line between Capreol and North Bay This line later became the Canadian National Railway Alderdale Subdivision with station stops from east to west in Harfred Crystal Falls Ashburton Field Desaulniers and River Valley along with several industrial spurs to serve local industries 9 CN rail service declined in the mid 20th century and was eliminated altogether in 1996 10 The community of Field suffered two significant natural disasters in the 1970s On August 20 1970 it was hit by a small tornado associated with the Sudbury tornado event In the spring of 1979 the Sturgeon River overflowed its banks at Field causing massive flooding in the town s centre 11 Half the town that was located in the flood plain was relocated to higher ground two kilometres south of the original town centre on Highway 64 This new location is known as New Field Val des Arbres Demographics editIn the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada West Nipissing had a population of 14 583 living in 6 413 of its 7 252 total private dwellings a change of 1 5 from its 2016 population of 14 364 With a land area of 1 956 27 km2 755 32 sq mi it had a population density of 7 5 km2 19 3 sq mi in 2021 12 Canada census West Nipissing community profile 20162011 Population14 364 1 5 from 2011 14 149 5 5 from 2006 Land area1 993 68 km2 769 76 sq mi 1 992 08 km2 769 15 sq mi Population density7 2 km2 19 sq mi 7 1 km2 18 sq mi Median age45 5 M 45 0 F 46 0 47 1 M 46 7 F 47 5 Private dwellings7 013 total 7 156 total Median household income 55 390 References 2016 13 2011 14 earlier 15 16 Transportation editOntario Northland motor coach service makes scheduled stops in Sturgeon Falls and Verner 17 Media and education editThe region is served primarily by broadcast stations from North Bay and Sudbury Two commercial radio stations CFSF FM and CHYQ FM 18 broadcast from Sturgeon Falls The area has a bilingual weekly newspaper Tribune West Nipissing This Week La Voix du Nipissing Ouest which was previously called The Sturgeon Falls Tribune It is also served by the daily North Bay Nugget Students attend either Northern Secondary School Ecole secondaire publique Northern or Ecole secondaire catholique Franco Cite Notable people editRichard Deschatelets Wrestler in the 1976 summer olympics Harry Bain former paediatrician in chief of the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto s department chairman of paediatrics Jean Ethier Blais fr writer and literary critic at Le Devoir 19 Jean Jacques Blais former cabinet member in the Canadian government Louise Charron first Franco Ontarian justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Mitch Gagnon UFC fighter France Gareau 1984 Olympics athlete who won a silver medal in the 4x100 metres sprints Osias Godin former MP Ed Harrington ex CFL player Carl Legault former federal politician Zotique Mageau former mayor and MPP and campaigner against Regulation 17 Moe Mantha Sr former NHL player and politician Moe Mantha Jr former NHL player raised in Sturgeon Falls Andre Paiement singer and songwriter Rachel Paiement singer and songwriter Jack Roxburgh politician and president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association 20 Benoit Serre former federal politician Gaetan Serre former federal politician Marc Serre current federal politicianSee also editList of francophone communities in OntarioReferences edit West Nipissing Nipissing Ouest Ontario Code 3548055 census profile 2011 Census of Population Statistics Canada 8 February 2012 Retrieved 2013 10 13 Census Profile 2016 Census West Nipissing Statistics Canada Retrieved June 24 2019 Hamilton William 1978 The Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names Toronto Macmillan p 139 ISBN 0 7715 9754 1 Sturgeon River House Archived from the original on January 9 2007 Retrieved December 23 2018 James Holditch 1851 1913 HFHS Journal 20 May 2002 Sturgeon Falls Settler Dies Ottawa Journal July 15 1913 Retrieved May 21 2021 Sturgeon River House Museum Municipality of West Nipissing Retrieved June 24 2019 Founding of Sturgeon Falls Ontario Heritage Trust Retrieved June 24 2019 Alderdale Subdivision CNR in Ontario 9 July 2019 Retrieved 20 July 2020 Canadian Transportation Agency 18 April 1996 Order No 1996 R 152 retrieved 25 July 2020 Water level still rising in stricken Ontario town The Globe and Mail May 1 1979 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 2017 03 16 2011 Community Profiles 2011 Canadian Census Statistics Canada March 21 2019 Retrieved 2013 10 13 2006 Community Profiles 2006 Canadian Census Statistics Canada August 20 2019 2001 Community Profiles 2001 Canadian Census Statistics Canada July 18 2021 https www ontarionorthland ca communications schedules new 2023 09 15 SCHED 501 502 EN PDF Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011 2 McGill Reporter Volume 28 Number 8 Roxy dies from injuries continued from page 1 Simcoe Reformere Simcoe Ontario February 28 1975 p 12 External links editOfficial website Retrieved from https en 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