Fauquier-Strickland


Fauquier-Strickland is a township municipality in Cochrane District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. The three main communities in the township are Fauquier, Strickland, and Gregoires Mill. All are located along Ontario Highway 11 between the community of Departure Lake to the east and the municipality of Moonbeam to the west.
The municipality was incorporated on December 24, 1921, as Shackleton and Machin, the names of the two geographic townships that then comprised its territory. It adopted its current name in 1984, renaming itself for its two largest communities., it includes the two original geographic townships; to the south the eastern half of geographic Macvicar Township, the western half of geographic Carmichael Township, and all of geographic Stringer Township; to the east, the western portion of geographic Haggart Township; and to the north, all of geographic Beardmore Township. Ironically, geographic Fauquier Township is adjacent to the west and is part of the municipality of Moonbeam.
Fauquier is located along the Groundhog River. The main community landmark is a roadside statue of a groundhog.
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History

Settlement in the area began when the National Transcontinental Railway was built in 1900s. The community of Fauquier was named after Mr. Fauquier and brothers who built the railroad bridge over the Groundhog River, and its first pioneer was Alphonse Brunet in 1909. In 1922, the parish was founded and the first school opened in Fauquier. Settlers were attracted by the agricultural and forestry opportunities. That same year, the Townships of Shackleton and Machin were formed into a municipality on December 24, 1921, and incorporated in 1922.
In 1916, the first settler, Etienne Brassard of Saint-Jérôme in Quebec, arrived in Strickland. In 1919, a saw mill was built, and in 1923, the school. By that year, Strickland counted 23 families and 18 single inhabitants.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Fauquier-Strickland had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.
Mother tongue :
  • English as first language: 30.1%
  • French as first language: 67.7%
  • English and French as first languages: 2.2%
  • English and Other as first languages: 0%
  • Other as first language: 0%

Government

List of former Reeves: