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Constance Bay is located in Ontario, Canada, at approximate coordinates 45.4862°, -76.0736°.

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Constance Bay

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Land area5.56 km²

Coordinates45.49°, -76.07°

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Area

5.56 km²

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Overview

Constance Bay is a population centre in West Carleton-March Ward in the rural northwest of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Prior to amalgamation in 2001, the community was part of West Carleton Township. It is situated 25 km northwest of the suburb of Kanata. The community surrounds the Torbolton Forest and is located on a peninsula between Constance and Buckham's Bay on the Ottawa River. According to the Canada 2016 Census, the population of the community was 2,314. 86% of dwellings are occupied by usual residents.

History & geography

History

The bay itself was named by French Fur Traders after Simon Constant who was a member of the Algonquin First Nation and who was in the area before white settlers arrived. T.W. Edwin Sowter, a hobby archaeologist from Aylmer, Quebec, first identified the presence of archaeological sites at Constance Bay in the late 1800s. However, details of these sites were not available until Gordon Watson excavated a site in his Constance Bay cottage yard in the early 1970s. Watson's documented his findings in "A Woodland Indian Site at Constance Bay" available from the Ontario Archaeological Society. One item in the Watson collection is a large reconstructed ceramic vessel dating to about 2,500 years ago. In 1946 St. Gabriel's first chapel opened for services. Father J. Lorne Reynolds appointed parish priest. Hydro (electric service) was brought into the community in the summer of 1951. In the spring/summer of 2005, Enbridge Gas Distribution brought Natural Gas to the community.

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