138 Business View - December 2014
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Northumberland County working hard to maintain progress
If you crave variety, you’ll probably crave Northumber-
land County.
The southeastern Ontario community sits on the
sprawling north shore of Lake Ontario and is conve-
niently positioned within a 60- to 90-minute drive of
large provincial population centers in Toronto (122 ki-
lometers to the west) and Kingston (147 kilometers to
the east) along Highway 401.
It’s comprised of seven distinct municipalities – the
townships of Alnwick/Haldimand, Cramahe and Ham-
ilton, the municipalities of Brighton, Port Hope and
Trent Hills and the town of Cobourg – and its 1,905
square kilometers are home to myriad features that in-
clude historic downtown settings, rolling rural hills and
scenic and majestic waterside settings.
Population sat at 82,126 residents for the last federal
census in 2011 and has stayed essentially level since
the arrival of the new century – unlike many neighbor-
ing municipalities within the Greater Toronto Area –
logging in at 77,497 residents in 2001 before rising
4.5 percent to 80,963 in 2006.
Roughly 40 percent of the working population travels
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