Webbwood, Ontario

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Webbwood is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is in the township of Sables-Spanish Rivers, approximately 75 km west of Greater Sudbury. It has a population of around 600 people.

Webbwood was incorporated as a town in 1906. On July 1, 1998 it was amalgamated with the township of the Spanish River, the town of Massey, and a number of unorganised townships to form Sables-Spanish Rivers.

The citizens of Webbwood elected Canada's first female mayor, Barbara Hanley, in 1936.