Hammond, Ontario

Clarence-Rockland
City (lower-tier)
City of Clarence-Rockland Cité de Clarence-Rockland
Location within Prescott and Russell
Clarence-Rockland Location in Ontario
Coordinates: 45°29′N 75°12′W / 45.483°N 75.200°W / 45.483; -75.200Coordinates: 45°29′N 75°12′W / 45.483°N 75.200°W / 45.483; -75.200
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
County	Prescott and Russell
Settled	1840s
Incorporation	January 1998
Government
• Type	City
• Mayor	Guy Desjardins
Area
• Land	297.86 km2 (115.00 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	23,185
• Density	77.8/km2 (202/sq mi)
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Area code(s)	613
Website	www.clarence-rockland.com

Clarence-Rockland is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell on the Ottawa River. Clarence-Rockland is located immediately to the east of Ottawa and is considered part of Canada's National Capital Region in the census.

The city was formed on January 1, 1998, through the amalgamation of the Town of Rockland with Clarence Township.

The city includes the communities of Bourget, Cheney, Clarence, Clarence Creek, Hammond, Rockland, Saint-Pascal-Baylon. The city administrative offices are located in Rockland, which is the largest community in the city.

The city is officially bilingual. It is 69 per cent francophone and is the largest majority-francophone city in North America outside of Quebec or Haiti, recently achieving a greater population than Edmundston, New Brunswick. (There are higher numbers of francophones in other Canadian cities such as Ottawa (122,665), Sudbury (45,420), Toronto (34,900), Winnipeg (26,855), Moncton (20,425) and Timmins (17,390), but French speakers in these cities are a minority.)

In January, 2005, the city introduced a bylaw which required all new businesses to put up signs in both English and French. Although the bylaw was criticized as infringing on individual constitutional rights, it was passed by the council.

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