The Nation, Ontario
municipality in Eastern Ontario, Canada
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. 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 after which the municipality was named.
Communities
The township comprises the communities of:
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.
The Nation also contains one of the larger concentrations of Francophones in Ontario. According to the 2021 Canadian Census, 64.2% of the population use French as their first language, while 34.3% use English as their first language.
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