Havelock-Belmont-Methuen

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Havelock-Belmont-Methuen
Township (lower-tier)
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Havelock-Belmont-Methuen
Coordinates: 44°34′N77°54′W / 44.567°N 77.900°W / 44.567; -77.900
CountryFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
ProvinceFlag of Ontario.svg  Ontario
County Peterborough
Settled1823
Incorporated1998
Government
 • TypeTownship
 • MayorJim Martin [1]
 • Deputy MayorDavid Gerow [1]
 • Prov. riding Peterborough
 • Federal riding Peterborough
Area
[2]
 • Land542.73 km2 (209.55 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [2]
 • Total4,530
 • Density8.3/km2 (21/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
Postal Code
K0L 1Z0
Area code(s) 705, 249
Website www.hbmtwp.ca

Havelock-Belmont-Methuen is a township in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in Peterborough County. On January 1, 1998, Belmont and Methuen Township amalgamated with the Village of Havelock to form what is now Havelock-Belmont-Methuen.

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History

The region's colonial history began with an influx of settlers after Belmont and Methuen Township was surveyed in 1823. The community of Havelock was incorporated as an independent village in 1892. [3]

Havelock was named after the British general, Sir Henry Havelock.

Early settlers built their homes in an area of dense forests and numerous lakes and rivers within the rocky Canadian Shield. They survived by means of fishing, logging, and farming.

By 1869, Blairton, in the Township of Belmont County, was a village with a population of 500. The village was near the richest iron mines in the Dominion. Miners and laborers were in great demand. The village was a station of the Cobourg, Peterborough & Marmora Railway. The land in the vicinity was almost all taken up. There were stages to Norwood and Marmora. [4]

Later, in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present, mining became an important economic activity. Early businesses in Havelock included a post office, bakery, and a blacksmith were located south of the current village on high ground at the intersection of County Road 30 and Old Norwood Road. In 1881, the Canadian Pacific Railway surveyed a right-of-way through the area north of Havelock and a year later laid rails and surveyed and filled the swampy land to make room for a larger village. [3] The current village of Havelock was developed on the filled land by the tracks north of the former village site and was incorporated in 1892. In the fall of 1884, the first full passenger train stopped at Havelock, from Toronto on its way to Smith's Falls. In 1961, the Havelock branch of the Toronto-Dominian Bank was robbed, in what was described by the Toronto Star in 2021 as "one of the biggest bank robberies in Canadian history." [5]

Havelock was an important freight depot from the 1880s to the 1960s. The railway is now run by Canadian Pacific as Kawartha Lakes Railway and its activity today consists of transporting nepheline syenite and crushed basalt rock from two mines north of Havelock operated by Unimin. [3] In 1998, the village of Havelock was amalgamated with the township of Belmont-Methuen to form the current township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen.

Historic School

The old school, a two-story building now known as the Hilltop Apartments, stands at the northwest corner of Oak Street and Mathison Street, Havelock. In 1890 to 1963 Havelock area students attended this school which in 1937 was renamed Havelock High School. In 1952 Havelock High School students were transferred to the new Norwood District High School in the neighbouring town of Norwood, Ontario. In 1963 Havelock Public School students were transferred to the new Havelock Public School, east of the Havelock Community Centre. In 1963 the school building was sold and converted to apartments. [3] In September, 2005 the Havelock High School Reunion Committee placed in front of the apartments a commemorative plaque bolted to a large red granite stone from a local quarry.

Railway Station

The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) station on Ottawa Street (Hwy #7) in Havelock was built in 1929. [3] It was designated in 1991 as a Heritage Railway Station by the Historic Sights and Monuments Board, Parks Canada. In 2004 the Station was purchased and renovated to accommodate restaurants. [3]

Local Government

The town's council includes a Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and three Councillors elected on the basis of one per ward. One other representative is elected to join the mayor at meetings of Peterborough County Council. The members of council elected in 2022 are: [6]

Mayor: Jim Martin

Deputy Mayor: Hart Webb

Councillors:

Communities

The township comprises the communities of Ashby Mill, Belmont Lake, Blairton (ghost town), Blairton Station, Blue Mountain, Chase Corners, Cordova Mines, Freeman Corners, Jack Lake, Havelock, Kasshabog Lake, MacDonald Bay, Nephton (ghost town), Oak Lake, Preneveau, Rockdale, Round Lake, Rush Point and Vansickle.

Havelock is the site of an annual country music festival, the Havelock Country Jamboree, in August. Havelock Country Jamboree celebrated its 30th Anniversary in the summer of 2019.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Havelock-Belmont-Methuen had a population of 5,083 living in 2,234 of its 3,856 total private dwellings, a change of 12.2% from its 2016 population of 4,530. With a land area of 529.35 km2 (204.38 sq mi), it had a population density of 9.6/km2 (24.9/sq mi) in 2021. [7]

Canada census – Havelock-Belmont-Methuen community profile
2021 2016 2011
Population5,083 (+12.2% from 2016)4,530 (+0.2% from 2011)4,523 (-2.5% from 2006)
Land area529.35 km2 (204.38 sq mi)542.73 km2 (209.55 sq mi)543.59 km2 (209.88 sq mi)
Population density9.6/km2 (25/sq mi)8.3/km2 (21/sq mi)8.3/km2 (21/sq mi)
Median age54.4 (M: 54.4, F: 54.8)54.4 (M: 54.1, F: 54.7)
Private dwellings3,856 (total)  2,234 (occupied)3,936 (total) 3,747 (total) 
Median household income$71,000$54,571
References: 2021 [8] 2016 [9] 2011 [10] earlier [11] [12]
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Railway station in Havelock, 2007

Mother tongue: [13]

Havelock-Belmont-Methuen historical populations
YearPop.±%
1996 4,327—    
2001 4,479+3.5%
2006 4,637+3.5%
2011 4,523−2.5%
2016 4,530+0.2%
[14] [10] [2]
2006 population would have been 6,812 using 2011 boundaries

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References

  1. 1 2 "2018 Official Election Results". Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  2. 1 2 3 "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Havelock-Belmont-Methuen". Statistics Canada. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hunter, Harold R. (1993). Havelock Through the Years to Centennial. Belleville, Ontario: Mika Pub. Co. p. 148. ISBN   0-921341-46-6.
  4. ↑ The province of Ontario gazetteer and directory. H. McEvoy Editor and Compiler, Toronto : Robertson & Cook, Publishers, 1869
  5. ↑ "BEHIND THE CRIMES: Bank bandits hid in basement in one of Canada's biggest robberies at the time". The Toronto Star. 2021-08-19. ISSN   0319-0781 . Retrieved 2022-06-29.
  6. ↑ "2018 Official Election Results". hbmtwp.ca/. October 22, 2018. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Ontario". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  8. ↑ "2021 Community Profiles". 2021 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. February 4, 2022. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  9. ↑ "2016 Community Profiles". 2016 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. August 12, 2021. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
  10. 1 2 "2011 Community Profiles". 2011 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. March 21, 2019. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  11. ↑ "2006 Community Profiles". 2006 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. August 20, 2019.
  12. ↑ "2001 Community Profiles". 2001 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. July 18, 2021.
  13. ↑ Statistics Canada 2006 Census - Havelock-Belmont-Methuen community profile
  14. ↑ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006
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