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{{Infobox settlement
|name                   = Head, Clara and Maria
|official_name          = United Townships of Head, Clara and Maria
|settlement_type        = [[List of township municipalities in Ontario|Township]] ([[List of municipalities in Ontario#Lower-tier municipalities|lower-tier]])
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|subdivision_name1      = [[Ontario]]
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|subdivision_name2      = [[Renfrew County, Ontario|Renfrew]]
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|leader_title           = Mayor
|leader_name            = Debbi Grills
|established_title      = Settled
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|established_title2     = Incorporated
|established_date2      = 1878
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|area_footnotes         = <ref name=sc21>{{SCref |year=2021 |unit=csd |code={{#property:P3012}} |access-date=2024-07-24}}</ref>
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|area_land_km2          = 719.20
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|population_as_of       = 2021
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|population_total       = 267
|population_density_km2 = 0.4
|timezone               = [[North American Eastern Time Zone|EST]]
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|utc_offset_DST         = -4
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|postal_code_type       = Postal codes
|postal_code            = Bissett Creek: K0J 1E0<br />Deux Rivières: K0J 1R0<br />Mackey: K0J 2B0<br />Stonecliffe: K0J 2K0
|area_code              = [[Area code 613|613]], [[Area code 705|705]]
|website                = {{URL|http://www.townshipsofheadclaramaria.ca/|www.townshipsof<br />headclaramaria.ca}}
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'''Head, Clara and Maria''', officially the '''United Townships of Head, Clara and Maria''', is a municipality and incorporated [[township (Canada)|township]] in [[Renfrew County]] in [[eastern Ontario]], Canada, It is on the [[Ottawa River]] and on the northern edge of [[Algonquin Park]].
Virtually all the communities (Deux-Rivières, Bissett Creek, Stonecliffe and Mackey) and activities are along [[Ontario Highway 17|Highway 17]], the rest of the township is largely [[Crown land#Ontario|crown land]], which is mostly [[wilderness]]. Property taxes are the lowest in Renfrew County.<ref name=county>{{cite web |title=Township of Head, Clara and Maria |url=https://www.countyofrenfrew.on.ca/en/county-government/township-of-head-clara-and-maria.aspx |website=renfrew.ic12.esolg.ca |publisher=County of Renfrew |access-date=25 July 2024 |language=en |date=7 January 2020}}</ref>
==History==
The township of Head was named in honour of [[Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet]] who served as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick 1847-1854 and Governor-General of Canada 1854-1861. The township of Maria was named in honour of his wife, Lady Anna Maria Head (Nee Yorke) (1808-1890).<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft |page=[https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/153 153]}}</ref>
<gallery>
File:Lady Anna Maria Head.jpg|Lady Anna Maria Head (née Yorke)
File:Edmund Walker Head.jpg|[[Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet]]
</gallery>
==Geography==
Head, Clara and Maria is bordered on the north by the Ottawa River and on the south by Algonquin Provincial Park.  Trans Canada Highway 17 runs through the four hamlets which make up this municipality.
The municipality has numerous with lakes and rivers, providing fishing, hunting, hiking, canoeing, and snowmobiling opportunities.<ref name=county/>
===Communities===
The township includes the communities of Aylen,<ref>{{cite cgndb|id= FEFZT|title= Aylen|accessdate=2018-08-31}}</ref> Bissett Creek, Deux-Rivières, Mackey and Stonecliffe.
Deux-Rivières provides access to Algonquin Park via Brent Road. Stonecliffe is home to the municipal office and is near [[Driftwood Provincial Park]].
== Demographics ==
In the [[2021 Canadian census|2021 Census of Population]] conducted by [[Statistics Canada]], Head, Clara and Maria had a population of {{val|267|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|116|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|133|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:267-248}}|248|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|248|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|719.2|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|267|719.2|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=sc21/>
{{Historical populations
|title       = {{Nowrap|Historical census populations –}} Head, Clara and Maria
|align       = none
|cols        = 3
|percentages =
|footnote    =
|source      = Statistics Canada<ref name=sc21/><ref name=census1971>{{cite journal |title=1971 Census of Canada - Population Census Subdivisions (Historical) |journal=Catalogue 92-702 Vol I, Part 1 (Bulletin 1.1-2) |date=July 1973 |pages=76, 139 |publisher=Statistics Canada}}</ref>
| 1921 |488
| 1931 |536
| 1941 |620
| 1951 |645
| 1956 |549
| 1961 |549
| 1966 |554
| 1971 |474
| 1976 |433
| 1981 |372
| 1986 |293
| 1991 |256
| 1996 |294
| 2001 |228
| 2006 |228
| 2011 |235
| 2016 |248
| 2021 |267
}}
==Local government==
List of former reeves:<ref>{{cite web |title=Township Politics |url=https://images.ourontario.ca/hcmpl/2816861/data?grd=559 |website=images.ourontario.ca |publisher=Head, Clara and Maria Public Library |language=en |access-date=25 July 2024}}</ref>
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* Jim Donnelly (1864)
* James Dunlop (1887–1902)
* W. P. Dunlop (1904–1909)
* Henery Beauchamp (1912–1916)
* J.E. Jennings (1917–1924)
* James E. Carey (1930–1936)
* D. A. Francoeur (1937–1950)
* George Clouthier (1951)
* Leslie J. Donnelly (1952–1964)
* Art Yates (1965–1968, 1971–1974)
* Loretta Boissonneault (1969–1970)
* Wyman Jennings (1975)
* Grant Horricks (1976–1980)
* Percy Watts (1981–1985)
* Ernie Boudreau (1986–1991)
* Lita Therrien (1992–1997)
* Colleen Clarriere (1998)
* William Crowshaw (1999–2006)
* Tammy Lea Stewart ({{nee}} Sonnenburg) (2006–2014)
* Jim Gibson ([[2014 Renfrew County municipal elections#Head, Clara and Maria|2014]]–2017)<ref>https://townshipsofheadclaramaria.ca/download.php?dl=YToyOntzOjI6ImlkIjtzOjM6IjM2MCI7czozOiJrZXkiO2k6NTt9 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>
* Robert James Reid (2017–2018)
* Debbi Grills ([[2018 Renfrew County municipal elections#Head, Clara and Maria|2018]]–present)
{{Div col end}}
==Transportation==
Highway 17 is the main road connecting the community to destinations to the northwest and west. [[Ontario Northland Motor Coach Services]] operates an intercity bus route from Ottawa to Sudbury along Highway 17.
==Notable people==
* [[Michael James Heney]], a railroad contractor known for his work on the first two railroads built in Alaska, the [[White Pass and Yukon Route]] and the [[Copper River and Northwestern Railway]], was born in Stonecliffe.
==See also==
*[[List of francophone communities in Ontario]]
*[[List of townships in Ontario]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* {{Official website|http://www.townshipsofheadclaramaria.ca/ }}
{{Geographic Location
| Centre    = Head, Clara and Maria
| North     = {{flagicon|QC}} [[Les Lacs-du-Témiscamingue]]<br />''[[Ottawa River]]''
| Northeast = {{flagicon|QC}} [[Rapides-des-Joachims]]<br />''[[Ottawa River]]''
| East      = [[Laurentian Hills]]
| South     = [[Unorganized South Nipissing District|Unorganized South Nipissing]]<br />([[Algonquin Park]])
| West      = [[Papineau-Cameron]]
}}
{{Renfrew County}}
{{Authority control}}
[[Category:Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario]]
[[Category:Municipalities in Renfrew County]]
[[Category:Township municipalities in Ontario]]
[[Category:Populated places on the Ottawa River]]