Sables-Spanish Rivers, Ontario
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Population trend:
. Massey is located at the junction of Highway 17 and Highway 553.
and Little Current.
Massey holds a fall fair every year at the fairgrounds. There are rides, contests, prizes, many games and even more vendors. A crash-up car derby has been recently been added along with a four-wheeler mud bog competition. In 2008, the classic car show at the fair was very small compared to the years before so it may be cancelled. There are motocross races, horse pulls, and horse shows there as well.
, in 1936.
Massey is the birthplace of artist Robert Lougheed
and former NHLer Pete Horeck
. It is also the hometown of writer and former bank robber Stephen Reid
and the current home of poet Charlie Smith.
Theodore Drake
, one of the inventors of Pablum
, was born at Webbwood.
- Population in 2006: 3237
- Population in 2001: 3245
- Population total in 1996: 3535
- Massey (town): 1171
- The Spanish River (township): 1598
- Webbwood (town): 563
- Population in 1991:
- Massey (town): 1186
- The Spanish River (township): 1636
- Webbwood (town): 588
Transportation
All three of the township's main communities are located directly along Highway 17Highway 17 (Ontario)
King's Highway 17, more commonly known as Highway 17, is a provincially maintained highway and the primary route of the Trans-Canada Highway through the Canadian province of Ontario. It begins at the Manitoba border west of Kenora and ends south of Arnprior at the western terminus of Highway 417, ...
. Massey is located at the junction of Highway 17 and Highway 553.
Media
The township is served primarily by media from Sudbury, Elliot Lake, EspanolaEspanola, Ontario
Espanola is a town in Northern Ontario, Canada, and is the seat of Sudbury District. It is situated on the Spanish River, approximately 70 kilometres west of downtown Sudbury, and just south of the junction of Highway 6 and Highway 17.- History :The name "Espanola" has been attributed to a story...
and Little Current.
Culture
Massey hosts an annual Street Painting Festival in September of each year. The community also hosts an annual fair in late August, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2006.Massey holds a fall fair every year at the fairgrounds. There are rides, contests, prizes, many games and even more vendors. A crash-up car derby has been recently been added along with a four-wheeler mud bog competition. In 2008, the classic car show at the fair was very small compared to the years before so it may be cancelled. There are motocross races, horse pulls, and horse shows there as well.
Famous people
The citizens of Webbwood elected Canada's first female mayor, Barbara HanleyBarbara Hanley
Barbara McCallum Hanley, née Smith was the first woman to be elected a mayor in Canada....
, in 1936.
Massey is the birthplace of artist Robert Lougheed
Robert Lougheed
Robert Lougheed was an artist who has specialized in images of the American West.He was born in and raised on a farm in Massey, Ontario, Canada. He became an illustrator for mail-order catalogues and for the Toronto Star, but studied in his spare time at the Ontario College of Art and then at the...
and former NHLer Pete Horeck
Pete Horeck
Peter Horeck was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was born in Massey, Ontario.He grew up in Capreol, Ontario...
. It is also the hometown of writer and former bank robber Stephen Reid
Stephen Reid (writer)
Stephen Reid is a Canadian writer, who has also been convicted twice of bank robbery.Born in Massey, Ontario, Reid began writing in 1984 while serving a 21-year prison sentence at the Kent Institution in Agassiz, British Columbia. During his sentence, he submitted a manuscript to Susan Musgrave,...
and the current home of poet Charlie Smith.
Theodore Drake
Theodore Drake
Theodore G.H. Drake, MD was a Canadian pediatrician and one of three doctors that developed Pablum.-Early life:Drake was born on September 16, 1891 in Webbwood, Ontario. He obtained his university degree from the University of Toronto in 1914. He spent two years in residence at the Toronto General...
, one of the inventors of Pablum
Pablum
Pablum is a processed cereal for infants originally marketed by the Mead Johnson Company in 1931. The trademarked name is a contracted form of the Latin word pabulum, meaning "foodstuff", which had long been used in botany and medicine to refer to nutrition, or substances of which the nutritive...
, was born at Webbwood.