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Dryden is the second-largest city in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada, located on Wabigoon Lake. It is the least populous community in Ontario incorporated as a city. [3] The City of Dryden had a population of 7,749 and its population centre (urban area) had a population of 5,586 in 2016.
Dryden Mill in 2008. The Dryden pulp mill, also known as the Reed Mill, is a paper and pulp mill in Dryden, Ontario.During the 1960s and 70s, mercury poisoning from the mill caused one of Canada's worst environmental disasters: Dryden Chemicals Ltd dumped mercury into the English-Wabigoon River, upstream of Grassy Narrows First Nation, poisoning the fish which were their staple food.
Wabigoon Lake is a lake located in the Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The community of Dryden (pop 8,198) is located on the north shore of the lake, and the primary inflow and outflow is the Wabigoon River. A dam built to provide power for the early pulp and paper company raised the original level of the lake by several feet ...
Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation, commonly known as Wabigoon First Nation ( Anishinaabemowin: Waabigoniiw Saaga'iganiiw Anishinaabeg ), is a Saulteaux First Nation band government who inhabit the Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is approximately 19 km southeast of Dryden, Ontario. As of January 2008, the First Nation had a ...
t. e. Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation(also known as Grassy Narrows First Nationor the Asabiinyashkosiwagong Nitam-Anishinaabegin the Ojibwe language) is an OjibweFirst Nationsband governmentwho inhabit northern Kenorain Ontario, Canada. Their landbase is the 4,145 ha (10,240 acres) English River 21Indian Reserve.
Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows. Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows was an uncontrolled discharge of between 9,000 kilograms (20,000 lb) and 11,000 kilograms (24,000 lb) of mercury from the Dryden Mill's chloralkali plant in Dryden into the headwaters of the Wabigoon River in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario from 1962 ...
Augusta Township. Edwardsburgh/Cardinal Township. Elizabethtown-Kitley Township. Front of Yonge Township. Leeds and the Thousand Islands Township. Village of Merrickville-Wolford. North Grenville Township. Rideau Lakes Township. Village of Westport.
Ontario has 52 cities, which together had in 2016 a cumulative population of 9,900,179 and average population of 190,388. The most and least populous are Toronto and Dryden, with 2,794,356 and 7,749 residents, respectively. Ontario's newest city is Richmond Hill, whose council voted to change from a town to a city on March 26, 2019.