Laird, Ontario

Laird is a township and village in the Algoma District in Northern Ontario, Canada. The township had a population of 1,047 in the Canada 2016 Census, down from 1,057 in the 2011 census.

Communities
The township includes the named communities of Laird and Neebish. It also includes a portion of Bar River, a small hamlet straddling the boundary between the townships of Laird and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Laird had a population of $1,121$ living in $470$ of its $560$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $1,047$. With a land area of 103.25 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Population trend:
 * Population in 2016: 1,047
 * Population in 2011: 1,057
 * Population in 2006: 1,078
 * Population in 2001: 1,021
 * Population in 1996: 1,073
 * Population in 1991: 997

Transportation
Highway 17 passes through the township. Tarbutt is a neighbour of Laird and is separated by a low-grade dirt road called "Townline Road" which spurs into a road to Pine Island.