Mattawan, Ontario
Mattawan is a municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in the Nipissing District, the municipality had a population of 153 in the 2021 Canadian census.
The municipality has no named communities within its boundaries; all addresses within the municipality are rural routes assigned to the neighbouring town of Mattawa.
Its main access road is Highway 533, with Highway 656 as a short branch leading to the Otto Holden Generating Station on the Ottawa River.
In 2007, Mattawan, along with the town of Mattawa and the townships of Papineau-Cameron, Bonfield and Calvin cooperated to create a newly branded Mattawa Voyageur Country tourist region in order to promote the area.
History
European settlement began in the 1850s, when loggers came to clear the land, followed by farmers. The township was incorporated in the early 1880s.In 1948, construction began on the Otto Holden Generating Station, leading to a temporary influx of immigrants.
In 1975, the Mount Antoine ski hill opened, which closed in 2000 and reopened again in 2015.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Mattawan 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: 67.7 %
- French as first language: 25.8 %
- English and French as first languages: 0 %
- Other as first language: 0 %