Country Canada Time zone EST (UTC-5) Area 149.8 km² Mayor Bill Vrebosch Local time Friday 12:04 AM | District Nipissing Website eastferris.ca Population 4,750 (2016) Area code Area codes 705 and 249 Province Ontario | |
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Settled 1885 (Astorville)
1897 (Corbeil) Postal Code P0H 1B0 (Astorville)
P0H 1K0 (Corbeil) Weather -8°C, Wind W at 11 km/h, 64% Humidity | ||
East Ferris is a township in northeastern Ontario, Canada located between Trout Lake and Lake Nosbonsing in the District of Nipissing. West Ferris has long been annexed into the city of North Bay.
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Map of East Ferris, ON, Canada
Communities
The main communities within East Ferris are Astorville and Corbeil. There are also smaller residential areas in the township, known as Derland Road and Lake Nosbonsing.
In July 2005, Astorville hosted the first Northern Ontario Ball Hockey Championship. In November 2005, Astorville was one of nine communities that voted on whether to accept private funding for a health centre.
Corbeil is located on the La Vase River, at a turn in Highway 94 south of its terminus at Highway 17. The township's municipal office is located in Corbeil.
Economy
Many residents who live in East Ferris, commute back and forth to the City of North Bay for work and for shopping.
Culture
The township's public library is located in Astorville.
The township holds an annual winter carnival, as well as town picnics in the summer.
Astorville is home to the Nosbonsing Curling Club.
Notable people
Canadian cartoonist Lynn Johnston lives and works in Corbeil.
The Dionne quintuplets were born on a farm near Corbeil. Corbeil was also the home of Marie-Louise Meilleur, a supercentenarian who was 117 years old when she died in 1998. She was the oldest living person in the world for the eight months preceding her death, and remains both the oldest verified person in Canadian history and the fourth oldest verified person in the world. She lived at the Nipissing Manor Nursing Home, which was once the mansion that housed the Dionne sisters.
Demographics
In the 2011 Census, Statistics Canada originally reported that the Township of East Ferris had a population of 4,512 living in 1,699 of its 1,883 total dwellings, a 1.8% change from its 2006 population of 4,228. Statistics Canada subsequently amended the 2011 census results to a population of 4,766 living in 1,802 of its 2,081 total dwellings, a 12.7% change from 2006. With a land area of 155.03 km2 (59.86 sq mi), it had a population density of 30.742/km2 (79.623/sq mi) in 2011.