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Hawkesbury is a town in Eastern Ontario on the Ottawa River , near the Quebec / Ontario Border . It lies on the south shore of the Ottawa River about halfway between downtown Ottawa and downtown Montreal in Prescott And Russell . The Long-Sault Bridge (formely the Perley Bridge) links it to Grenville, Quebec , to the north. It has a very nice neighbourhood called 'Mont-Roc' built during the 1950-1980 era where the elite live. Hawkesbury is touted as the third most bilingual town in Ontario , with about 69.6% of its inhabitants being fluent in English and French , the two Official Languages of Canada . ( West Nipissing is first with 73.4% followed by Hearst at 71%. 89% of the population speaks French as their mother tongue. The downtown core is very attractive. Unfortunately, development on the outskirts has hurt some of the business and the Main Street is slowly recovering. The LCBO outlet is very successful. Founded in 1798, the town was named after Charles Jenkinson, Baron Hawkesbury . Thomas Mears built the first Gristmill s and Sawmill s, and the Union, the Ottawa River's first steamer. Demand for timber during the Napoleonic Wars created a boom. Timber and pulp-and-paper industries have been supplanted by textiles, synthetic fibres, metal extrusions, steel, glass and plastics. Hawkesbury has also become the business and service centre of the county of Prescott-Russell. The Grenville Canal on the Québec side of the Ottawa River opposite Hawkesbury is an important link in the river's transportation system. The only interprovincial bridge between Ottawa and Montréal is located here. Part of Hawkesbury was submerged by a Hydro-Québec dam built 1950-62. According to the 2001 Statistics Canada Census:
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TRANSPORTATION The town is served by three small airports: EXTERNAL LINKS |
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