Lakeshore, Ontario

Lakeshore
Lakeshore
Municipality (lower-tier)
	Municipality of Lakeshore
	Lakeshore Municipal Office
	Flag Seal
	Lakeshore Lakeshore
	Coordinates: 42°15′N 82°41′W / 42.250°N 82.683°W
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
County	Essex
Formed	1999
Government
• Mayor	Tracey Bailey
• MPs	Chris Lewis (CPC); Dave Epp (CPC)
• MPPs	Anthony Leardi (PC); Trevor Jones (PC)
Area
• Land	530.33 km2 (204.76 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Total	40,410
• Density	69.0/km2 (179/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Website	www.lakeshore.ca

Lakeshore is a municipality on Lake St. Clair, in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. It was incorporated in 1999 by amalgamating the Town of Belle River with the townships of Maidstone, Rochester, Tilbury North, and Tilbury West. It is the largest and the most populous municipality within Essex County. However, it is part of the Windsor census metropolitan area.

Lakeshore has a significant concentration of French Canadians and is one of only four communities in Southern Ontario (excluding Eastern Ontario) in which more than 5% (the provincial average) of the population is francophone. The others are Welland, Pain Court, and Penetanguishene. In the 2011 census, 7.7% of the population reported French as their mother tongue, and 17.2% reported knowledge of both official languages.^[3] Lakeshore also has a historic black community, along the Puce River, made up of descendants of refugee slaves from the South in the United States who immigrated to Canada for freedom, using the Underground Railroad network.^[4]

^ Cite error: The named reference cp2016 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Lakeshore census profile". 2021 Census of Population. Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved May 13, 2023.
^ Statistics Canada (February 8, 2012). "Census Subdivision of Lakeshore". Focus on Geography Series. Retrieved February 7, 2014.
^ Brown, Alan L. "Puce River Black Community". Ontario's Historical Plaques. Retrieved February 7, 2014.

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[cp2021-2] "Lakeshore census profile". 2021 Census of Population. Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved May 13, 2023.

[3] Statistics Canada (February 8, 2012). "Census Subdivision of Lakeshore". Focus on Geography Series. Retrieved February 7, 2014.

[4] Brown, Alan L. "Puce River Black Community". Ontario's Historical Plaques. Retrieved February 7, 2014.

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