Morris-Turnberry


The Municipality of Morris-Turnberry is a municipality in Huron [County, Ontario], Canada. It is located in the north portion of Huron County, near the Bruce County border, southeast of Wingham.
It was formed as an amalgamation of the former Morris and Turnberry townships in 2001 in an Ontario-wide local government restructuring imposed by the government of that time. The two former townships now comprise the wards of the amalgamated municipality.
Morris-Turnberry's only significant settlement is Bluevale, located at the junction of Huron Roads 86 and 87 east of Wingham. This is where Elias Disney, father of Walt Disney, was born in 1859. Sunshine is also located here.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Morris-Turnberry 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.
Prior to amalgamation :
  • Population total in 1996: 3,504
  • * Morris : 1,732
  • * Turnberry : 1,772
  • Population in 1991:
  • * Morris : 1,725
  • * Turnberry : 1,582