Tweed, Ontario

This page is about the Municipality of Tweed, for the village see Tweed, Ontario (village).
Tweed
Municipality (lower-tier)
Municipality of Tweed

Main street in Tweed
Tweed
Coordinates: 44°36′N 77°20′W / 44.600°N 77.333°W / 44.600; -77.333Coordinates: 44°36′N 77°20′W / 44.600°N 77.333°W / 44.600; -77.333
Country  Canada
Province  Ontario
County Hastings
Incorporated 1998
Government
 • Type Municipality
 • Reeve Jo-Anne Albert
 • Federal riding Prince Edward—Hastings
 • Prov. riding Prince Edward—Hastings
Area[1]
 • Land 953.75 km2 (368.24 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
 • Total 6,057
 • Density 6.4/km2 (17/sq mi)
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
Postal Code K0K
Area code(s) 613
Website twp.tweed.on.ca

Tweed is a municipality and a village located in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in Hastings County.

The Municipality of Tweed is an amalgamated municipality comprising the former Village of Tweed and the former Townships of Hungerford and Elzevir & Grimsthorpe. The Municipality was incorporated on January 1, 1998, as a lower tier municipality within the County of Hastings two tier governing system.

As of 2004, the total land area was approximately 230,000 acres (930 km²), 30% of which was Crown land. Lakes, rivers and streams account for approximately 4,650 acres (18 km²). There are approximately 600 kilometres (370 mi) of roads throughout the Municipality. The total 2004 property assessment for the Municipality of Tweed was $309,000,000. Its composition was 84% residential, 7% farm, 6% commercial and industrial, and 3% other categories.

Stoco Lake, a part of the Moira River system which borders the town of Tweed, is home to a popular and uncommon sport-fish, the muskellunge or Muskie (Esox masquinongy). The Black River joins the Moira River near the Village of Tweed.

The Canadian Pacific Railway's Havelock Subdivision passed through Tweed to Glen Tay and Smith Falls from the 1880s until the line was abandoned from Glen Tay to Tweed in 1973 then Tweed to Havelock in 1987. A more westerly portion of the line still runs through Peterborough. A Napanee, Tamworth and Quebec Railway (later the Bay of Quinte Railway) had a spur from Tamworth, Ontario to Tweed; the Tweed-Yarker and Tweed-Bannockburn segments were abandoned by 1941 and the former Napanee-Smiths Falls mainline abandoned in the late 1970s.

Communities

Approximately 30% of the population resides the Village of Tweed, the only urban centre. The remainder of the Municipality consists of five hamlets (Actinolite, Marlbank, Queensborough, Stoco, and Thomasburg) and a large rural area which reaches from Wadsworth Lake in the north to Roslin in the south. The residents of the hamlets and the rural area comprise the other 70% of the population. In 2004, there were approximately 2870 households.

Demographics

Canada census – Tweed, Ontario community profile
2011 2006 2001
Population: 6057 (7.9% from 2006) 5614 (0.0% from 2001) 5612 (-1.6% from 1996)
Land area: 953.75 km2 (368.24 sq mi) 896.98 km2 (346.33 sq mi) 896.98 km2 (346.33 sq mi)
Population density: 6.4/km2 (17/sq mi) 6.3/km2 (16/sq mi) 6.3/km2 (16/sq mi)
Median age: 44.8 (M: 44.4, F: 45.3) 41.9 (M: 41.6, F: 42.2)
Total private dwellings: 2907 2709 2807
Median household income: $46,519 $38,432
References: 2011[3] 2006[4] 2001[5]

Population trend:[6]

Mother tongue:[7]

Forest fire protection history

The Tweed Forest Fire District was founded by the former Ontario Department of Lands and Forests (now the MNR) in 1922 as one of 17 districts to help protect Ontario's forests from fire by early detection from fire towers. The headquarters for the district were housed at Hungerford Road in town. It was the central headquarters for 21 fire lookout towers. When a fire was spotted in the forest a towerman would get the degree bearings from his respective tower and radio back the information to headquarters. When one or more towermen from other towers in the area would also call in their bearings, the forest rangers at headquarters could get a 'triangulation' read and plot the exact location of the fire on their map. This way a team of forest firefighters could be dispatched as soon as possible to get the fire under control. In 1958 the 100-foot (30 m)-tall Hungerford firetower was erected beside the station. However, in the 1970s all the towers had been decommissioned as aerial fire fighting techniques were employed. The Hungerford tower was disassembled in 1996 and placed behind the Tweed Heritage Centre.

Notable stories

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Tweed census profile". 2011 Census of Population. Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
  2. ↑ Thomasburg, ON, Community Demographics
  3. ↑ "2011 Community Profiles". Canada 2011 Census. Statistics Canada. July 5, 2013. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
  4. ↑ "2006 Community Profiles". Canada 2006 Census. Statistics Canada. March 30, 2011. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
  5. ↑ "2001 Community Profiles". Canada 2001 Census. Statistics Canada. February 17, 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
  6. ↑ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  7. ↑ "Clearview, Ontario (Code3543005) (table)". 2006 Census data. Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
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