Casselman is a village in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell on the South Nation River.

It is a small village on the Trans-Canada Highway 417 between Ottawa and Montréal at the crossroads of Highway 138 , a smaller highway which runs south to Cornwall-Massena.

According to the 2001 Statistics Canada Census:

• Population: 2,910
• % Change (1996-2001): 1.1
• Dwellings: 1,111
• Area (sq. km.): 5
• Density (persons per sq. km.): 582.5

Casselman is surrounded on all sides by The Nation.

The village was named after Martin Casselman who built a sawmill near the site of the current town in 1844.

External link

• Official web site