Restoule is a community and designated place in geographic Patterson Township in the Centre Unorganized Part of Parry Sound District in Central Ontario, Canada. A brick school house was built in 1956. When it shut its doors, the school had only 20 students and one teacher, and served grades 1 to 6. It was amalgamated with Nipissing Central and South Himsworth schools.
Etymology
This place in Parry Sound District, 36.1 km west of Powassan, was named in 1878 after Ojibwa chief Joseph Restoule, who was still alive when the postmaster provided details to the chief geographer of Canada in 1905.
Other places of the same name in Ontario
There is also a geographic Restoule Township in Algoma District, Ontario, on the Algoma Central Railway.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Restoule had a population of 502 living in 252 of its 559 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 455. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
According to the Canada 2016 Census:
- Population: 455
- % Change (2011-2016): +3.4
- Dwellings: 539
- Area (km²): 125.64
- Density (persons per km²): 3.6
Notable residents
- Frances Lankin, Canadian senator and former NDP Member of Provincial Parliament.
- Jess Larochelle, Canadian war hero who was severely wounded in the War in Afghanistan in 2006 and awarded the Star of Military Valour.
Politics
Politically, Restoule, as with most of rural Parry Sound District leans Conservative.
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