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Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional is a township in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. Originally surveyed as separate geographical townships, Macdonald and Meredith were incorporated as a single, municipal township in 1892. The geographical township of Aberdeen Additional was added to Macdonald and Meredith township in 1899 to create the municipal township of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional.[2]
Macdonald township was named after John A. Macdonald, while Meredith township was named after William Ralph Meredith.[2]
The township encompasses the unincorporated communities of Echo Bay (46°29′08″N84°04′02″W / 46.48556°N 84.06722°W / 46.48556; -84.06722),[3] Echo River (46°30′35″N84°02′15″W / 46.50972°N 84.03750°W / 46.50972; -84.03750),[4] and Sylvan Valley (46°28′15″N83°59′22″W / 46.47083°N 83.98944°W / 46.47083; -83.98944).[5]
Echo Bay, the township's main population centre, is located on the shores of the eponymous Echo Bay and Lake George. The community is home to a big loonie, similar to the Big Nickel in Sudbury, around 260 kilometres (160 mi) eastward. Robert-Ralph Carmichael, one of the Canadian dollar coin's designers, lived near Echo Bay.
Bar River (46°26′30″N84°01′34″W / 46.44167°N 84.02611°W / 46.44167; -84.02611)[6] is a small hamlet straddling the boundary between the townships of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and Laird.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional had a population of 1,513 living in 603 of its 803 total private dwellings, a change of −6% from its 2016 population of 1,609。土地面積は 163.26 km 2 (63.04 平方 マイル) で、人口密度は2021年には9.3/km² （ 24.0/平方 マイル）であった。[ 1 ]
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