McKellar, Ontario

McKellar is also the primary and largest community within the township, located along Provincial Highway 124. Other population centres within the township are: • Broadbent • Hurdville ==History==

In the 1860s, the community of Broadbent was founded, named after its settlers Henry and Edward Broadbent. In 1867, the settlement of Armstrong's Rapids was formed by Samuel Armstrong Jr., Andrew Moore, and John McKeown, coming from Parry Sound. Two years later in 1869, a mill is built at Armstrong's Rapids. That same year the township was surveyed. In 1871, its post office opened, and in 1873, the township was incorporated with Samuel Armstrong as its first reeve. == Demographics ==

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, McKellar had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Mother tongue (2021): • English as first language: 92.6% • French as first language: 1.9% • English and French as first language: 0% • Other as first language: 5.5% ==See also==