McKellar
Township (single-tier)
Township of McKellar
McKellar
Coordinates: 45°29′N 79°51′W / 45.483°N 79.850°W / 45.483; -79.850
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
District	Parry Sound
Settled	ca. 1870
Incorporated	1873
Government
• Type	Township
• Reeve	David Moore
• Federal riding	Parry Sound-Muskoka
• Prov. riding	Parry Sound—Muskoka
Area [1]
• Land	180.88 km2 (69.84 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	1,419
• Density	8.1/km2 (21/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Postal Code	P0G 1C0, P2A 0B4
Area code(s)	705, 249
Website	[1]

McKellar is a township and census subdivision in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada. The 2021 population was 1,419.

McKellar is named for Archibald McKellar (1816-1894), a member of the legislative assemblies for the province of Canada (1857-1867) and Ontario (1867-1875).

Communities

McKellar is also the primary and largest community within the township, located along Provincial Highway 124. It was originally known as Armstrong's Rapids, but the name McKellar was given when the post office opened in the community in 1870. Broadbent is named for American Steel Millionaire, Samuel Broadbent (1845-1923) who financed the building for the Trans-Canadian Railway. Hurdville is named for Canadian Financier William Faulkner Hurdville (1838-1910), who also helped finance the Trans-Canadian Railway.

Other population centres within the township are:

• Broadbent
• Hurdville

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, McKellar had a population of 1,419 living in 695 of its 1,515 total private dwellings, a change of 27.7% from its 2016 population of 1,111. With a land area of 176.07 km² (67.98 sq mi), it had a population density of 8.1/km² (20.9/sq mi) in 2021.^[5]

Mother tongue:^[6]

• 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%

Notable people

• Edward Harold Toye (1884-1974), executive secretary of the Religion-Labor Foundation^[7]