Tweed, Ontario
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- This page is about the Municipality of Tweed, for the village see Tweed, Ontario (village).
Tweed is both a municipality and a village located in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in the County of Hastings. It is about halfway between Ottawa and Toronto.
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 officially incorporated as of January 1st, 1998 as a lower tier municipality within the County of Hastings two tier governing system.
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 to the south. The residents of the hamlets and the rural area comprise the other 70% of the population. As of 2004, there were approximately 2870 households.
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 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.
The Black River joins the Moira River near the Village of Tweed.
In 1996 the town made news when it applied for a CFL team, in an attempt to become the Green Bay of Canada. Had the attempt been successful, the team would have been known as the Tweed Muskies.
According to the 2001 Statistics Canada Census:
- Population: 5,612
- % Change (1996-2001): -1.6
- Dwellings: 2,807
- Area (km²): 896.98
- Density (persons per km²): 6.3
[edit] Communities
- Actinolite
- Bogart
- Buller
- Chapman
- Cosy Cove
- Coulters Hill
- Duff Corners
- East Hungerford
- Elzevir
- Farrell Corners
- Hungerford
- Larkins
- Lime Lake
- Lodgeroom Corners
- Lost Channel
- Marlbank
- Moneymore
- Otter Creek
- Queensborough
- Stoco
- Sulphide
- Thomasburg
- Tweed
| North: Limerick | ||
| West: Tudor and Cashel, Madoc, Centre Hastings |
Tweed | East: Addington Highlands, Stone Mills |
| South: Tyendinaga, Greater Napanee |
