Onaping - Levack, Ontario
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Onaping - Levack is an unincorporated community in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is recognized as a designated place by Statistics Canada, and consists of the adjacent communities of Onaping and Levack.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Onaping - Levack had a population of 1,941 living in 874 of its 912 total private dwellings, a change of −2.5% from its 2016 population of 1,990. With a land area of 8.27 km2 (3.19 sq mi), it had a population density of 234.7/km2 (607.9/sq mi) in 2021.[1]
Name origin
Onaping may be a corruption of the Anishinaabemowin word onamaning. Onaman means red ochre[2] and the locative suffix[3] "ing" transforms the word into "place of the red ochre". Onaping lies on the ridge of the Sudbury basin, an area rich in iron-bearing minerals[4]. Levack was named after Mary Levack Mowatt, the mother of Sir Oliver Mowatt, Ontario premier from 1872 to 1896[5].
