Tupperville, Ontario

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Tupperville
Unincorporated community
Tupperville, Ontario
Coordinates: 42°35′25″N82°16′10″W / 42.59028°N 82.26944°W / 42.59028; -82.26944
Country Canada
Province Ontario
Municipality Chatham–Kent
Time zone UTC-5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
Forward sortation area
N0P 2M0
Area codes 519 and 226
NTS Map040J09
GNBC CodeFCXZE

Tupperville is a community on the Sydenham River in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada and has a population of approx. 300 people. Tupperville was named after Canada's sixth Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper.

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Tupperville is located in close proximity to 2 larger towns - Wallaceburg (pop. 11,000) and Dresden (pop. 4,000). Thirty minutes south of Tupperville is the City of Chatham-Kent (pop. 42,000) and forty minutes north is the City of Sarnia (pop. 70,500).

Geology

The area where Tupperville sits emerged from the former Lake Algonquin. [1] In 1956, bones and teeth of mastodons were found a quarter-mile northeast of Tupperville on a shoal in Lake St. Clair. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Abstracts of papers submitted for six meetings with which the Society was associated. Geological Society of America. 2018. p. 167. ISBN   978-0-8137-2068-5.

42°35′25″N82°16′10″W / 42.59028°N 82.26944°W / 42.59028; -82.26944

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