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Quality of Life

  • Unique quality of life: city services with country benefits!
  • A great place to live, raise a family and grow old
  • Large green spaces, including parks, forests, trails and camping sites
  • Many natural attractions
  • Recreation, sports, culture and tourism
  • An exciting community of eight municipalities ranked among the top 25 communities to live in Canada (Source: Money Sence Magazine 2018)
  • Move freely and easily!
  • Smooth traffic flow
  • Bilingual education, French and English, served by 43 institutions
  • One of the most affordable daycare networks
  • Affordable real estate and rental housing
  • State-of-the-art general hospital (2020 investment of $160M)
  • An easily accessible, bilingual and growing region
  • High-speed broadband network available to 97% of the population of Prescott and Russell

DEMOGRAPHICS

  • The area is primarily rural with a population of 89,333. It has three commercial cores. Its largest town is Rockland with a population of just over 14,000.
  • Large area of 2002 km2, with 44.6 people per square kilometre.
  • Excellent geographic location.
  • The region is located in Eastern Ontario, on the Quebec border, one hour from Montreal and Ottawa, bordered by the Ottawa River and close to the US border.
  • Easy access to an extensive national and international transportation and logistics network.
  • The United Counties of Prescott and Russell is the soul of eight municipalities with unique and magnificent characteristics. East Hawkesbury, Hawkesbury, Champlain, Alfred and Plantagenet, The Nation, Casselman, Russell and Clarence-Rockland.

ACCESSIBILITy

The Prescott and Russell region is easily accessible and has an excellent geographic location.

The region is located in Eastern Ontario, on the Quebec border, one hour from Montreal and Ottawa, bordered by the Ottawa River and close to the United States border.

The region is accessible by a provincial highway, the Ontario-Quebec Interprovincial Bridge (Long Sault) and its two ferries. The region is close to international airports and train stations in Ottawa and Montreal.