Laird, Ontario

Laird is a township and village in the Algoma District in Northern Ontario, Canada. The township had a population of 1,121 in the 2021 Canadian census, up from 1,047 in the 2016 census.
The township is named after David Laird.

WWW lairdtownship.ca

Communities

The township includes the named communities of Laird and Neebish. It also includes a portion of Bar River, a small hamlet straddling the boundary between the townships of Laird and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Laird 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.

Transportation

Highway 17 passes through the township. Tarbutt is a neighbour of Laird and is separated by a low-grade dirt road called "Townline Road" which spurs into a road to Pine Island.