Madawaska Valley


The Township of Madawaska Valley is a township municipality in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It was formed in 2001 through the amalgamation of the village of Barry's Bay and the townships of Radcliffe and Sherwood Jones & Burns.
The area is also a culturally significant location for the Polish diaspora in Canada, and is known by members of the community as Kaszuby,'' after a region in Northern Poland that many early settlers of the region hailed from.
Its largest population centre is Barry's Bay, and it also includes the settlements of Combermere and Wilno, the latter of which being named for the city of Vilnius, a city in modern Lithuania that has historically possessed a large Polish population and significant cultural ties to Poland.
The area is also the locus of Polish scouting organizations within Canada, who hold overnight camps for scouts annually, in July.
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Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Madawaska Valley 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.
  • Population total in 1996:
  • * Barry's Bay: 1,086
  • * Radcliffe township: 1,116
  • * Sherwood, Jones and Burns township: 2,140
  • Population in 1991:
  • * Barry's Bay: 1,088
  • * Radcliffe township: 1,077
  • * Sherwood, Jones and Burns township: 2,101
Mother tongue :
  • English as first language: 84.2%
  • French as first language: 2.2%
  • English and French as first language: 0.5%
  • Other as first language: 11.4%

Local government

List of former mayors:
  • William "Bill" Schweig
  • John Hildebrandt
  • David Shulist
  • Kim Love
  • Mark Willmer