Head, Clara and Maria

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|leader_title = Mayor

|leader_name = Debbi Grills

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|established_date2 = 1878

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|postal_code = Bissett Creek: K0J 1E0
Deux Rivières: K0J 1R0
Mackey: K0J 2B0
Stonecliffe: K0J 2K0

|area_code = 613, 705

|website = {{URL|http://www.townshipsofheadclaramaria.ca/|www.townshipsof
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Head, Clara and Maria, officially the United Townships of Head, Clara and Maria, is a municipality and incorporated township in Renfrew County in eastern Ontario, Canada, It is on the Ottawa River and on the northern edge of Algonquin Park.

Virtually all the communities (Deux-Rivières, Bissett Creek, Stonecliffe and Mackey) and activities are along Highway 17; the rest of the township is largely crown land, which is mostly wilderness. Property taxes are the lowest in Renfrew County.{{cite web |title=Township of Head, Clara and Maria |url=https://www.countyofrenfrew.on.ca/en/county-government/township-of-head-clara-and-maria.aspx |website=renfrew.ic12.esolg.ca |publisher=County of Renfrew |access-date=25 July 2024 |language=en |date=7 January 2020}}

History

The township of Head was named in honour of Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet who served as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick 1847-1854 and Governor-General of Canada 1854-1861. The township of Maria was named in honour of his wife, Lady Anna Maria Head (Nee Yorke) (1808-1890).{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft |page=[https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/153 153]}}

File:Lady Anna Maria Head.jpg|Lady Anna Maria Head (née Yorke)

File:Edmund Walker Head.jpg|Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet

Geography

Head, Clara and Maria is bordered on the north by the Ottawa River and on the south by Algonquin Provincial Park. Trans Canada Highway 17 runs through the four hamlets which make up this municipality.

The municipality has numerous with lakes and rivers, providing fishing, hunting, hiking, canoeing, and snowmobiling opportunities.

=Communities=

The township includes the communities of Aylen,{{cite cgndb|id= FEFZT|title= Aylen|accessdate=2018-08-31}} Bissett Creek, Deux-Rivières, Mackey and Stonecliffe.

Deux-Rivières provides access to Algonquin Park via Brent Road. Stonecliffe is home to the municipal office and is near Driftwood Provincial Park.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Head, Clara and Maria had a population of {{val|267|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|116|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|133|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:267-248}}|248|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|248|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|719.2|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|267|719.2|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.

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|source = Statistics Canada{{cite journal |title=1971 Census of Canada - Population Census Subdivisions (Historical) |journal=Catalogue 92-702 Vol I, Part 1 (Bulletin 1.1-2) |date=July 1973 |pages=76, 139 |publisher=Statistics Canada}}

| 1921 |488

| 1931 |536

| 1941 |620

| 1951 |645

| 1956 |549

| 1961 |549

| 1966 |554

| 1971 |474

| 1976 |433

| 1981 |372

| 1986 |293

| 1991 |256

| 1996 |294

| 2001 |228

| 2006 |228

| 2011 |235

| 2016 |248

| 2021 |267

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Local government

List of former reeves:{{cite web |title=Township Politics |url=https://images.ourontario.ca/hcmpl/2816861/data?grd=559 |website=images.ourontario.ca |publisher=Head, Clara and Maria Public Library |language=en |access-date=25 July 2024}}

Jim Donnelly (1864)
James Dunlop (1887–1902)
W. P. Dunlop (1904–1909)
Henery Beauchamp (1912–1916)
J.E. Jennings (1917–1924)
James E. Carey (1930–1936)
D. A. Francoeur (1937–1950)
George Clouthier (1951)
Leslie J. Donnelly (1952–1964)
Art Yates (1965–1968, 1971–1974)
Loretta Boissonneault (1969–1970)
Wyman Jennings (1975)
Grant Horricks (1976–1980)
Percy Watts (1981–1985)
Ernie Boudreau (1986–1991)
Lita Therrien (1992–1997)
Colleen Clarriere (1998)
William Crowshaw (1999–2006)
Tammy Lea Stewart ({{nee}} Sonnenburg) (2006–2014)
Jim Gibson (2014–2017)https://townshipsofheadclaramaria.ca/download.php?dl=YToyOntzOjI6ImlkIjtzOjM6IjM2MCI7czozOiJrZXkiO2k6NTt9 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
Robert James Reid (2017–2018)
Debbi Grills (2018–present)

Transportation

Highway 17 is the main road connecting the community to destinations to the northwest and west. Ontario Northland Motor Coach Services operates an intercity bus route from Ottawa to Sudbury along Highway 17.

Notable people

Michael James Heney, a railroad contractor known for his work on the first two railroads built in Alaska, the White Pass and Yukon Route and the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, was born in Stonecliffe.