Verner, Ontario
| West Nipissing Nipissing-Ouest |
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| Municipality of West Nipissing Municipalité de Nipissing-Ouest |
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Power dam on the Sturgeon River in Sturgeon Falls.
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| Coordinates: 46°22′N 79°55′W / 46.367°N 79.917°WCoordinates: 46°22′N 79°55′W / 46.367°N 79.917°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Ontario
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| District | Nipissing |
| Established | January 1, 1999 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Joanne Savage |
| • Governing Body | West Nipissing Town Council |
| • MPs | Marc Serré (Liberal) |
| • MPPs | John Vanthof (NDP) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,993.63 km2 (769.74 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 14,364 |
| • Density | 7.2/km2 (19/sq mi) |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
| Postal Code | P0H, P2B |
| Area code(s) | 705, 249 |
| Website | www |
West Nipissing is a municipality in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, on Lake Nipissing in the Nipissing District. It was formed on January 1, 1999, with the amalgamation of seventeen and a half former town, villages, townships and unorganized communities.
It is the most bilingual community in Ontario, with 73.4% of its population fluent in both English and French.
The primary administrative and commercial centre of West Nipissing is the community of Sturgeon Falls, which is situated on the Sturgeon River, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of Lake Nipissing and 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of North Bay on Highway 17, part of the Trans-Canada Highway. Roughly half the population of West Nipissing lives in Sturgeon Falls.
Field is located on Highway 64, approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Sturgeon Falls. In 1979, the Sturgeon River overflowed its banks, flooding the town's centre. Many houses were demolished and rebuilt on higher ground nearby. The Thistle Fire Tower is to be dismantled and re-erected here as a tourist attraction. Logging, farming and outdoor recreational activities are main village industries.
Verner is located on the Veuve River (Rivière Veuve), at the western junction of highways 17 and 64, approximately 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west of Sturgeon Falls. The largely francophone community serves as an agricultural hub for the surrounding area and offers a consumers' cooperative and farm equipment dealers. The town was named for the wife of Canadian Pacific Railway superintendent Archer Baker, who oversaw the laying of track through the West Nipissing area in the 1880s.
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