Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional



Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional is a township in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. Originally surveyed as separate geographical townships, Macdonald and Meredith were incorporated as a single, municipal township in 1892. The geographical township of Aberdeen Additional was added to Macdonald and Meredith township in 1899 to create the municipal township of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional.

The township encompasses the unincorporated communities of Echo Bay, Bar River and Sylvan Valley.

Communities
Bar River is a small hamlet straddling the boundary between the townships of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and Laird.

Echo Bay is located on the shores of the eponymous Echo Bay and Lake George. The community is home to a big loonie, similar to the Big Nickel in Sudbury, around 260 km eastward. Robert-Ralph Carmichael, one of the Canadian dollar coin's designers, lived near Echo Bay.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional had a population of $1,513$ living in $603$ of its $803$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $1,609$. With a land area of 163.26 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Population trend:
 * Population in 2016: 1,609
 * Population in 2011: 1,464
 * Population in 2006: 1,550
 * Population in 2001: 1,452
 * Population in 1996: 1,521
 * Population in 1991: 1,548