Tupperville, Ontario
Tupperville | |
|---|---|
Unincorporated community | |
| Coordinates: 42°35′25″N 82°16′10″W / 42.59028°N 82.26944°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| Municipality | Chatham–Kent |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| Forward sortation area | |
| Area codes | 519 and 226 |
| NTS Map | 040J09 |
| GNBC Code | FCXZE |
Tupperville is a community on the Sydenham River in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada and has a population of approx. 300 people. Tupperville was named after Canada's sixth Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper.
Tupperville is located in close proximity to 2 larger towns - Wallaceburg (pop. 11,000) and Dresden (pop. 4,000). Thirty minutes south of Tupperville is the City of Chatham-Kent (pop. 42,000) and forty minutes north is the City of Sarnia (pop. 70,500).
Geology
The area where Tupperville sits emerged from the former Lake Algonquin.[1] In 1956, bones and teeth of mastodons were found a quarter-mile northeast of Tupperville on a shoal in Lake St. Clair.[1]
References
- ^ a b Abstracts of papers submitted for six meetings with which the Society was associated. Geological Society of America. 2018. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-8137-2068-5.
External links
- Tupperville at Geographical Names of Canada