Laird, Ontario

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Highway 17 through Laird Township

Laird is a township in the Algoma District in Northern Ontario, Canada. Highway 17 passes through. Bar River is a hamlet on the northern boundary of the township, just south of the village of Echo Bay. Laird is a farming community and bedroom community east of Sault Ste. Marie. Tarbutt township is a neighbour of Laird and is separated by a low-grade dirt road called "Townline Rd." which spurs into a road to Pine Island.

The township had a population of 1,078 in the Canada 2006 Census.

[edit] External links

Official Laird Raceway website

v • d • e Algoma District, Ontario

Cities	Elliot Lake • Sault Ste. Marie

Towns	Blind River • Bruce Mines • Spanish • Thessalon

Townships	Dubreuilville • Hilton • Hornepayne • Huron Shores • Jocelyn • Johnson • Laird • Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional • Michipicoten • North Shore • Plummer Additional • St. Joseph • Tarbutt and Tarbutt Additional • White River

Villages	Hilton Beach

First Nations	Garden River • Goulais Bay • Gros Cap • Missanabie • Mississagi River • Rankin Location • Sagamok • Serpent River • Thessalon

Unorganized areas	North (Batchawana Bay, Goulais River, Hawk Junction, Missanabie, Oba, Prince, Ranger Lake, Searchmont) • South East (Dunns Valley, Leeburn, Ophir, Wharncliffe)