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Patterson Township is a geographic township in central Ontario, Canada.As it is unincorporated, it is located in the Central Unorganized portion of Parry Sound District.The township is located where the French River flows from Lake Nipissing, and then stretches south until it meets Pringle Township in the south.
The Nipissing River is a river in the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin in the Unorganized South Part of Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The river is entirely within Algonquin Provincial Park , and is a left tributary of the Petawawa River .
An estimated 4750 people live along the South, the river itself giving rise to many villages in the Highlands, including Nipissing, Powassan, Trout Creek, and the eponymous South River. These communities were built around the rapids and waterfalls along the river, harnessing the energy and force of the cascading water to power sawmills in the ...
Northeastern Ontario consists of the districts of Algoma, Sudbury, Cochrane, Timiskaming, Nipissing and Manitoulin. For some purposes, Parry Sound District and Muskoka District Municipality are treated as part of Northeastern Ontario although they are geographically in Central Ontario. These two divisions are coloured in green on the map.
The Rosseau-Nipissing Road, also called the Nipissing Road, encouraged settlement in what is now Parry Sound. The project was authorized in 1864, with surveying done from 1864 to 1865. Construction began in 1866, and the road was open by 1873.
Nipissing is an incorporated (political) township in Parry Sound District in Central Ontario, Canada. [1] [4] It is on Lake Nipissing and is part of the Almaguin Highlands region. Nipissing was surveyed between 1874 and 1881, and was incorporated in 1888. Among the first settlers in the area were the Chapman and Beatty families.
The North Bay outlet river, (580 feet (180 m) above sea level [4]) or " Nipissing-Mattawa River," [5] crossed an area of crystalline rock, chiefly gneiss, reaching the Mattawa River, which joined the Ottawa River at Mattawa, which led out the St. Lawrence to the ocean. [3] Mattawa River is a chain of lakes.
The portion of the highway between Highway 524 and Highway 654 is part of the Lake Nipissing Circle Tour. The entire route is located within Parry Sound District . In 2007, the busiest section was between Highway 11 and Highway 654, which had an annual average daily traffic (AADT) count of 830, while the least busiest section was between ...