West Nipissing, Ontario
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The Municipality of West Nipissing is a municipality in northeastern Ontario, Canada on Lake Nipissing in the District of Nipissing. It was formed on January 1, 1999 with the amalgamation of seventeen and a half former towns, villages, townships and unorganized communities. It is the most bilingual community in Ontario with 73.4% of its population fluent in both English and French.
According to the Canada 2001 Census:
- Population: 13,114
- % Change (1996-2001): -2.7
- Dwellings: 6,586
- Area (km²): 1909.67
- Density (persons per km²): 6.9
Communities
- Cache Bay
- Caderette
- Crystal Falls
- Desaulniers
- Evansville
- Field
- Harfred
- Keystone Camps
- Kirkpatrick
- Lavigne
- Lunge Lodge
- Meadowside
- North Monetville
- Notre Dame du Lac
- River Valley
- Sturgeon Falls
- Verner
Media
The region is served primarily by broadcast stations from North Bay and Greater Sudbury. One commercial radio station, CFSF, and a non-profit community station, CFDN, broadcast from Sturgeon Falls, as does a retransmitter of the SRC television affiliate CBLFT.
External links
| North: Unorganized Northern Nipissing | |||||
| West: St. Charles, Markstay-Warren, French River, Unorganized Northern Sudbury |
West Nipissing | East: Nipissing 10 | |||
| South: Nipissing 10 |
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