Rideau Lakes

Rideau Lakes contains many villages and hamlets, including:

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• Chaffeys Lock
• Chantry
• Crosby
• Daytown
• Delta
• Elgin
• Forfar
• Freeland
• Harlem
• Jones Falls
• Lombardy
• Morton
• Newboro
• Newboyne
• Philipsville
• Plum Hollow
• Portland
• Rideau Ferry
• Scotch Point

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The independent village of Westport is entirely surrounded by Rideau Lakes, but is not part of the township.

Image:Crosby ON.JPG|Old school building in Crosby

Image:Elgin ON.JPG|Elgin

Image:Lombardy ON.JPG|Lombardy

Image:Newboro ON.JPG|Newboro

A plaque was erected by the Ontario Heritage Foundation commemorating the founding of Newboro with the building of the Rideau Canal in 1826–32. Benjamin Tett settled here in 1833. He opened a store and later a post office. The community served as a major construction camp during the building of the Rideau Canal. Newboro was a trade centre for the region's lumbering industry and agriculture. The economic development of the community was enabled by the shipment of iron ore from local mines via the Rideau canal to smelters in Pittsburgh and Cleveland during the latter part of the 19th century.http://www.heritagefdn.on.ca/userfiles/HTML/nts_1_5888_1.html Ontario Heritage Trust Founding of Newboro

The Village of Newboro was incorporated in 1876.

A plaque was erected by the Ontario Heritage Foundation commemorating the founding of Chaffey's Lock by Benjamin and Samuel Chaffey, who established mills here in 1820. Samuel Chaffey settling here shortly thereafter. The site included a distillery and saw, grist, carding, and fulling mills by 1827. The mills were flooded by the building of the Rideau Canal. A plaque was erected by the Chaffey's Lock and Area Heritage Society commemorating the founders, early builders, and all who have been part of the Chaffey's Lock community. Plaques have been erected by individuals and families on the Memory Wall, at Chaffey's Lock Cemetery.

The Queen's University Biological Station is located just southwest of Chaffey's Lock.

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Rideau Lakes had a population of {{val|10883|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|4696|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|6781|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:10883-10326}}|10326|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|10326|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|711.81|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|10883|711.81|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.

{{Canada census

|location = Rideau Lakes

|2021_population=10,883 | 2021_pop_delta=+5.4 | 2021_land_area=711.81 | 2021_pop_density=15.3

|2021_median_age=55.6 | 2021_median_age_m=55.2 | 2021_median_age_f=55.6

|2021_total_pvt_dwell=6,781 |2021_occ_pvt_dwell=4,696 |2021_mean_hh_income=84,000 |2021_geocode=2021A00053507040 | 2021_access_date=2022-04-27

|2016_population=10,326 | 2016_pop_delta=+1.2 | 2016_land_area=729.22 | 2016_pop_density=14.2

|2016_median_age=54.0 | 2016_median_age_m=53.7 | 2016_median_age_f=54.2

|2016_total_pvt_dwell=6,891 |2016_occ_pvt_dwell=4,423 | 2016_mean_hh_income=71,801 | 2016_access_date=2025-03-17

|2011_population=10,207 | 2011_pop_delta=-1.4 | 2011_land_area=729.09 | 2011_pop_density=14.0

|2011_median_age= | 2011_median_age_m= | 2011_median_age_f=

|2011_total_pvt_dwell=6258 | 2011_mean_hh_income= | 2011_access_date=2012-02-14

|2006_population=10,350 | 2006_pop_delta=6.8 | 2006_land_area=710.25 | 2006_pop_density=14.6

|2006_median_age=47.1 | 2006_median_age_m=46.7 | 2006_median_age_f=47.4

|2006_total_pvt_dwell=6468 | 2006_mean_hh_income=55,722 | 2006_access_date=2012-02-14

|2001_population=9,687 | 2001_pop_delta=1.3 | 2001_land_area=710.38 | 2001_pop_density=13.6

|2001_median_age=44.0 | 2001_median_age_m=43.9 | 2001_median_age_f=44.1

|2001_total_pvt_dwell=6568 | 2001_mean_hh_income=47,022 | 2001_access_date=2012-02-14

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{{Historical populations

|title = {{Nowrap|Historical census populations –}} Rideau Lakes

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|source = Statistics Canada

| 2001 |9687

| 2006 |10350

| 2011 |10207

| 2016 |10326

| 2021 |10883

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• Population in 1996:
• Bastard and South Burgess Township: 2692
• Newboro Village: 291
• North Crosby Township: 1097
• South Crosby Township: 1910
• South Elmsley Township: 3574
• Population in 1991:
• Bastard and South Burgess Township: 2610
• Newboro Village: 282
• North Crosby Township: 968
• South Crosby Township: 1677
• South Elmsley Township: 3065

Mother tongue (2021):

• English as first language: 94.1%
• French as first language: 2.3%
• English and French as first language: 0.5%
• Other as first language: 2.9%

The Rideau Trail, a {{convert|300|km|adj=on}} footpath from Kingston to Ottawa, passes through the township. The highest point on the trail is located in the Foley Mountain Conservation Area, which is located within the township. The Cataraqui Trail, a rail trail on a former Canadian National right-of-way, goes through the township, passing near Portland, Elgin, and Chaffey's Lock. The Old Stone Mill National Historic Site is located within the village of Delta.

Trout island is a double island on the Rideau lakes; it became famous for its great trout fishing. There are three cottages on the island.

• Hotel Kenney
• List of municipalities in Ontario
• List of townships in Ontario

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• {{official|http://www.twprideaulakes.on.ca}}

{{Geographic location

| Centre = Rideau Lakes
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| North = Drummond/North Elmsley

| Northeast = Smiths Falls
Merrickville-Wolford

| East = Elizabethtown-Kitley

| Southeast = Athens

| South = Leeds and the Thousand Islands

| Southwest =

| West = South Frontenac

| Northwest = Tay Valley

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Category:Township municipalities in Ontario

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Category:Populated places established in 1998

Category:1998 establishments in Ontario