Callander, Ontario

The Municipality of Callander (formerly the Township of North Himsworth) is a

The municipality renamed itself from North Himsworth to Callander in 2003, adopting the name of its major community because, in the words of then-mayor Bill Brazeau, "Nobody knew where North Himsworth was."[4]

Communities

The main community of Callander is located in the northeast corner of the municipality, along the eastern shore of Callander Bay.

The south shore of Callander Bay and Lake Nipissing (southwest of the town) represents the rural population of Callander, which primarily runs along

History

Callander Bay is an eroded Proterozoic volcanic pipe formed by the violent, supersonic eruption of a deep-origin volcano, approximately 500 million years ago. It is one of eight known volcanic sites in Ontario, including the Manitou Islands in North Bay.

The first people in the Callander area were of

In 1610, French explorer

.

Lumber companies that established mills in Callander included:

• J.R. Booth
  Lumber Company
• John B. Smith & Sons Lumber Company
• Payette Lumber Company
• Thomas Darling & Sons Lumber Company

Notable people

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Prominent people who have lived in Callander include:

• The
  Dionne Quintuplets, the world's first surviving quintuplets (born May 28, 1934) who rose to international fame at the height of the Great Depression
  .
• Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe (1883–1943), doctor to the Dionne Quintuplets and recipient of the Order of the British Empire. His former home on Lansdowne Street is now the Callander Bay Heritage Museum
• NHL hockey player for the Philadelphia Flyers from 1972–1984; inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame
  .
• sulphur dioxide emissions, the cause of acid rain
  , at the signing of the Canada-U.S. Air Quality Accord.
• Burroughs Medal
• Taylor Milne (born 1981), middle distance runner, competed in two summer Olympiads: 2008 and 2016.
• Michael J. Fox (born 1961), actor. Lived there one year.^[5]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Callander had a population of 3,964 living in 1,636 of its 1,758 total private dwellings, a change of 2.6% from its 2016 population of 3,863. With a land area of 102.98 km² (39.76 sq mi), it had a population density of 38.5/km² (99.7/sq mi) in 2021.^[3]

See also

• List of townships in Ontario
• List of francophone communities in Ontario

References