Port Colborne

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Port Colborne

Total population

18,424

Coordinates42.89°, -79.25°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Port Colborne is a city in Ontario, Canada that is located on Lake Erie, at the southern end of the Welland Canal, in the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario. The original settlement, known as Gravelly Bay, dates from 1832 and was renamed after Sir John Colborne, a British war hero and the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada at the time of the opening of the (new) southern terminus of the First Welland Canal in 1833. The city's population in 2021 was 20,033.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

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