Country Canada Settled 1840s Time zone EST (UTC-5) Area code Area codes 613 and 343 Local time Monday 9:01 AM | Incorporation January 1998 Population 23,185 (2011) Team Clarence Beavers | |
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Website www.clarence-rockland.com Weather -8°C, Wind E at 14 km/h, 57% Humidity | ||
Clarence-Rockland is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell on the Ottawa River. Clarence-Rockland is located immediately to the east of Ottawa and is considered part of Canada's National Capital Region in the census.
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Map of Clarence-Rockland, ON, Canada
The city was formed on January 1, 1998, through the amalgamation of the Town of Rockland with Clarence Township.
Communities
The city includes the communities of Bourget, Cheney, Clarence, Clarence Creek, Hammond, Rockland, Saint-Pascal-Baylon.
Demographics
The city is officially bilingual. It is 69 per cent francophone and is the largest majority-francophone city in North America outside of Quebec or Haiti, recently achieving a greater population than Edmundston, New Brunswick. (There are higher numbers of francophones in other Canadian cities such as Ottawa (122,665), Sudbury (45,420), Toronto (34,900), Winnipeg (26,855), Moncton (20,425) and Timmins (17,390), but French speakers in these cities are a minority.)
In January, 2005, the city introduced a bylaw which required all new businesses to put up signs in both English and French. Although the bylaw was criticized as infringing on individual constitutional rights, it was passed by the council.
Public transportation
Clarence-Rockland Transpo provides a public transportation service to residents of the city; part of the Rural Partners Transit Service