Central Elgin

Central Elgin is a municipality located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada in Elgin County on Lake Erie. It is part of the London census metropolitan area.

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History

Central Elgin was formed in 1998 through the amalgamation of the Township of Yarmouth with the Villages of Belmont and Port Stanley.

Communities

The municipality includes the population centres of Port Stanley and Belmont. Other communities include Dexter, Lawton's Corners, Lyndale, Lynhurst, Mapleton, New Sarum, Norman, Sparta, Union, Whites and Yarmouth Centre.

Mayors

Bill Walters, 1999
David M. Rock, 1999–2006
Sylvia Hofhuis, 2006–2010
Tom Marks, 2010
Bill Walters, 2010–2014
David Marr, 2014–2018
Sally Martyn, 2018–2022
Andrew Sloan, 2022–

Demographics

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

Education

The community of Sparta has a French-immersion public school. It was an English public school prior to fall 2018.