Algonquino del Sur

South Algonquin es un municipio ^{[ 1 ]} en el distrito de Nipissing , Ontario , Canadá . ^{[ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]} Ubicado al sur del Parque Provincial Algonquin , es la única porción poblada del distrito que se encuentra al sur de la línea divisoria tradicional entre el norte de Ontario y el sur de Ontario y está más conectado con el condado de Renfrew en lugar de las partes centrales del distrito de Nipissing.

South Algonquin se estableció el 1 de junio de 1998, cuando el municipio de Airy (incorporado en 1962 a partir de un área no organizada) ^{[ 7 ]} se fusionó con los municipios no organizados de Dickens, Sabine, Lyell y Murchison. ^{[ 8 ]} El municipio tenía una población de 1055 habitantes en el censo canadiense de 2021. ^{[ 2 ]}

Las comunidades de Aylen Lake , Cross Lake (vinculado incorrectamente a Cross Lake, Manitoba) , Gunters, Madawaska , McKenzie Lake, ^{[ 9 ]} Murchison, Opeongo, Wallace y Whitney están en South Algonquin. ^{[ 4 ] [ 5 ]}

Incluye los municipios geográficos de Airy, Dickens, Lyell, Murchison y Sabine, con la excepción de un triángulo, la esquina noroeste del municipio de Airy, que forma parte del Parque Provincial Algonquin. ^{[ 1 ] [ 4 ]}

La zona se pobló principalmente para albergar el aserradero de la St. Anthony Lumber Company, de Minneapolis , Minnesota . Recibe su nombre del gerente general de la empresa, Edwin Canfield Whitney.

By 1892 work had commenced on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway (later the Canada Atlantic Railway), by Ottawa lumberman John Rudolphus Booth, whose sawmill at the Chaudière Falls, Ottawa, was considered to be one of the largest in North America, second only to a mill in Minneapolis. At the end of 1892, Booth arranged a takeover of the adjacent Perley and Pattee mill from the estate of his former colleague William Goodhue Perley.

Timber berths on the upper Madawaska River, in the townships of Airy and Nightingale, belonging to the Perley & Pattee Lumber Company, were sold in 1894, to the St. Anthony Lumber Company, of Minneapolis. As the OA&PS Railway was being constructed to access this area, Whitney persuaded the management of the St. Anthony firm to purchase the timber berths.

About a year after the Whitney sawmill was built, Fowler and Hill sold the Minneapolis mill and associated timber limits to Frederick Weyerhaeuser of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Whitney who had large timber holdings near Brainerd, Minnesota, sold them to Weyerhaeuser as well and made enough profit that he was able to purchase his partners' interests in the Whitney concern and continue its operation on his own.

Through the early 20th century, the Canada Atlantic Railway underwent a series of acquisitions, with the section through what would become South Algonquin becoming known as the CN Renfrew Subdivision under the Canadian National Railways. With railway rationalization and the onset of the Great Depression, rail operations through Algonquin Park ceased, and the rails were lifted around 1942. This cut off the through route to Depot Harbour and Parry Sound District in the west, turning the former central part of the Canada Atlantic mainline into a branch line. Operations beyond the wye at Whitney were ended in 1946, with the rails being lifted in 1952.^[10]

The Canadian National Railway Renfrew Subdivision was abandoned between Whitney and Renfrew in 1983.

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, South Algonquin had a population of 1,055 living in 527 of its 894 total private dwellings, a change of −3.7% from its 2016 population of 1,096. With a land area of 867.73 km² (335.03 sq mi), it had a population density of 1,2/km ² (3,1/milla cuadrada  ) en 2021. ^{[ 2 ]}

El Parque Provincial del Río Opeongo y el Parque Provincial del Río Alto Madawaska se encuentran en el sur de Algonquin. ^{[ 4 ] [ 5 ]}

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