South Algonquin
| South Algonquin | |
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| Township (single-tier) | |
| Township of South Algonquin | |
Highway 60 in Whitney.
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 South Algonquin
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| Coordinates: 45°30′N 78°02′W / 45.500°N 78.033°WCoordinates: 45°30′N 78°02′W / 45.500°N 78.033°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Ontario
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| District | Nipissing |
| Incorporated | October 1961 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Township |
| • Mayor | Jane Dumas |
| • Governing body | South Algonquin Township Council |
| • Councillors |
List
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| • Federal riding | Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke |
| • Prov. riding | Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke |
| Area | |
| • Total | 873.43 km2 (337.23 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 1,096 |
| • Density | 1.3/km2 (3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Postal code | K0J 2M0 |
| Area code(s) | 613 |
| Website | www.township.south algonquin.on.ca |
South Algonquin is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in the Nipissing District south of Algonquin Park, it is the sole populated portion of the district that lies south of the traditional dividing line between Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario.
The township had a population of 1,096 in the Canada 2016 Census.
The township comprises the communities of L'Amable, Aylen Lake, Cross Lake, Gunters, Madawaska, McKenzie Lake, Murchison, Opeongo, Wallace and Whitney.
The area was settled primarily as the site for the sawmill of the St. Anthony Lumber Company, of Minnesota, and is named for the general manager of that firm, Edwin Canfield Whitney. Whitney, who was born near Morrisburg, Ontario, had moved to the Midwestern United States shortly after the Civil War. Working in the lumber trade, he became manager of the St. Anthony Lumber Company in Minneapolis.
By 1892 work had commenced on the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway (later the Canada Atlantic Railway), by Ottawa lumberman John Rudolphus Booth. Booth's sawmill at the Chaudière Falls in Ottawa, was considered to be one of the largest in North America, second only to a mill in Minneapolis. At the end of 1892, Booth arranged a takeover of the adjacent Perley and Pattee mill, from the estate of his former colleague William Goodhue Perley.
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