Bonnechere Valley
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{{Infobox settlement
|name = Bonnechere Valley
|official_name = Township of Bonnechere Valley
|settlement_type = Township municipality (lower-tier)
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|image_caption = Community of Eganville in Bonnechere Valley
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = Canada
|subdivision_type1 = Province
|subdivision_name1 = Ontario
|subdivision_type2 = County
|subdivision_name2 = Renfrew
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|government_type = Township
|leader_title = Mayor
|leader_name = Jennifer Murphy
|leader_title1 = Federal riding
|leader_name1 = Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke
|leader_title2 = Prov. riding
|leader_name2 = Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke
|established_title = Established
|established_date = 2001
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|area_land_km2 = 588.36
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|population_total = 3,898
|population_density_km2 = 6.6
|timezone = EST
|utc_offset = -5
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|postal_code_type = Postal code
|postal_code = K0J 1T0
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Bonnechere Valley is a township municipality in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It had a population of 3,898 in the 2021 Canadian census. It was established on January 1, 2001, by amalgamation of the village of Eganville and the townships of Grattan, Sebastapol, and South Algona.{{cite web|title=Municipal Restructuring Activity Summary Table|url=http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=6212|publisher=Government of Ontario|access-date=2012-03-18|archive-date=2014-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113164737/http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=6212|url-status=dead}}
Communities
The administrative and commercial centre of Bonnechere Valley is Eganville, a small community occupying a deep limestone valley carved at the Fifth Chute of the Bonnechere River.
The township also comprises the smaller communities of Augsburg, Castile, Clontarf, Constant Creek, Cormac, Dacre, Donegal, Esmonde, Grattan, Lake Clear, McGrath, Perrault, Ruby, Silver Lake, Scotch Bush, Vanbrugh, Woermke, and Zadow, as well as the ghost towns of Newfoundout, Balaclava and Foymount.
History
The power of the Bonnechere River has been harnessed since 1848 but it was John Egan's grist mill that gets credit for stimulating the area's economic growth.
In 1911, the Great Fire destroyed many of the buildings in Eganville. 75 homes were lost in all along with schools, churches and industries along both sides on the Bonnechere River. This fire was started by two teenagers smoking cigarettes in a shed. A year later, the Municipal Building was erected, and served as the village post office for almost a century. This building has since become the home of the Bonnechere Museum and one of the most well known symbols of Eganville.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Bonnechere Valley had a population of {{val|3898|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|1739|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|2320|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:3898-3674}}|3674|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|3674|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|588.36|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|3898|588.36|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.
{{Canada census
|location = Bonnechere Valley
|2021_population=3,898 | 2021_pop_delta=+6.1 | 2021_land_area=588.36 | 2021_pop_density=6.6
|2021_median_age=54.4 | 2021_median_age_m=54.0 | 2021_median_age_f=54.4
|2021_total_pvt_dwell=2,320 |2021_occ_pvt_dwell=1,739 |2021_mean_hh_income=68,000
|2021_geocode=2021A00053547035 | 2021_access_date=2023-10-19
|2016_population=3,674 | 2016_pop_delta=-2.4 | 2016_land_area=593.75 | 2016_pop_density=6.2
|2016_median_age=47.6 | 2016_median_age_m=46.8 | 2016_median_age_f=48.5
|2016_total_pvt_dwell=2,317 |2016_mean_hh_income=54,240 |2016_access_date=2019-06-04
|2011_population=3,763 | 2011_pop_delta=2.7 | 2011_land_area=593.19 | 2011_pop_density=6.3
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|2011_total_pvt_dwell=2,226 | 2011_mean_hh_income= | 2011_access_date=2012-02-13
|2006_population=3,665 | 2006_pop_delta=2.1 | 2006_land_area=589.87 | 2006_pop_density=6.2
|2006_median_age=46.9 | 2006_median_age_m=46.8 | 2006_median_age_f=47.1
|2006_total_pvt_dwell=2,195 | 2006_mean_hh_income=42,856 | 2006_access_date=2012-02-13
|2001_population=3591 | 2001_pop_delta=-0.9 | 2001_land_area=589.88 | 2001_pop_density=6.1
|2001_median_age=44.1 | 2001_median_age_m=43.1 | 2001_median_age_f=45.0
|2001_total_pvt_dwell=2,250 | 2001_mean_hh_income=33,135 | 2001_access_date=2012-02-13
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{{Historical populations
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| 2001 |3591
| 2006 |3665
| 2011 |3763
| 2016 |3674
| 2021 |3898
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See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{Official website|http://www.bonnecherevalleytwp.com/ }}
{{Geographic location
|Center = Bonnechere Valley
|North = North Algona Wilberforce, Pikwàkanagàn
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|East = Admaston/Bromley
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|South = Greater Madawaska
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|West = Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan
|Northwest = Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards
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{{Renfrew County}}
Category:Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario