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Maxville, ON, former municipality, population 816 (2016 census), 811 (2011 census). Maxville is located southeast of Ottawa. It began around 1869 and expanded rapidly when the Canada Atlantic Railway established a station there in 1881. Maxville was incorporated as a village in 1891, but is now part of the township of North Glengarry (1998).
History
Maxville got its name from the many "Macs" of its Highland Scottish neighbourhood. Its population was 749 by 1901, but since then has been virtually unchanged. With little industry, its main economic function has been to supply merchandise and services to the surrounding farm community.
Cultural Life
Maxville has emotional significance for people of Scottish decent, as a surviving concentration of the old "Scottishness" of its county, Glengarry. The Glengarry Highland Games, held annually in Maxville since 1948, are among the more successful of their kind. The novelist Ralph Connor and British financier Sir Edward Peacock were born at St. Elmo, 3 km northwest of here.
