North Algona Wilberforce is a township

Township

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 in Renfrew County

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, Ontario

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, Canada

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. It has a population of 2,729. The township was formed in 1999 when the North Algona and Wilberforce townships were amalgamated.

Wilberforce Township was named in 1851, to honour William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce was a British politician, a philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire...

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Communities

The township contains the communities of Allans Corners, Beef Town, Budd Mills, Crooked Rapids, Deacon, Dore Bay, Duquette's Farm, Fourth Chute, Germanicus, Golden Lake, Green Lake, Higginson's Hill, Lake Dore, Lett's Corners, Mink Lake, Mud Lake, Rankin, Slabtown and Woito.

Transportation

Canadian National Railway served Golden Lake on the Locksley subdivison. Rail service was discontinued in 1961

Demographics

Population:

• Population in 2006: 2840 (2001 to 2006 population change: 4.1 %)
• Population in 2001: 2729
• Population in 1996:
  • North Algona: 664
  • Wilberforce: 1931
• Population in 1991:
  • North Algona: 636
  • Wilberforce: 1792

Private dwellings, excluding seasonal cottages: 1155 (total: 1624)

Mother tongue:

• English as first language: 89.4 %
• French as first language: 2.5 %
• English and French as first language: 0.9 %
• Other as first language: 7.2 %