See also: Laird (disambiguation).
| Laird | |
| Official Name: | Township of Laird |
| Settlement Type: | Township (single-tier) |
| Flag Size: | 120x100px |
| Mapsize: | 200px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Ontario |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Coordinates: | 46.3833°N -88°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1874 |
| Established Title2: | Incorporated |
| Established Date2: | 1891 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Shawn Evoy |
| Leader Title1: | MP |
| Leader Name1: | Carol Hughes (NDP) |
| Leader Name2: | Michael Mantha (NDP) |
| Area Land Km2: | 102.48 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 1,047 |
| Population Density Km2: | 10.2 |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Postal Code: | P0S |
| Website: | www.lairdtownship.ca |
Laird is a township and village in the Algoma District in Northern Ontario, Canada. The township had a population of 1,047 in the Canada 2016 Census, down from 1,057 in the 2011 census.
The township includes the named communities of Laird and Neebish. It also includes a portion of Bar River, a small hamlet straddling the boundary between the townships of Laird and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Laird had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 103.25km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Population trend:[3]
Highway 17 passes through the township. Tarbutt is a neighbour of Laird and is separated by a low-grade dirt road called "Townline Road" which spurs into a road to Pine Island.