City guide

Clearview — town guide

Clearview is a township, not a single town: a lower-tier municipality in Simcoe County spread over 556 square kilometres of farmland and Niagara Escarpment country south of Nottawasaga Bay. Stayner is the seat, where the council sits and the arena stands. Around it sit the smaller communities people actually give as their address: New Lowell, Avening, Dunedin, Glen Huron, Singhampton, Duntroon, Nottawa, Brentwood and Cashtown Corners. One of them, Creemore, is big enough to have its own Dayfari guide, and this guide links to it rather than telling its story twice. The neighbours keep their own names and their own guides: Collingwood, Wasaga Beach, The Blue Mountains, Springwater, Essa, Mulmur and Grey Highlands are separate municipalities, and nothing on this page borrows their places.

Photos for Clearview are still on their way. Every listing below is real.

Clearview on one page

Start with the shape. Clearview Township runs from the flat farm country around Stayner and New Lowell up onto the Escarpment in the west and south, where Glen Huron, Dunedin and Singhampton sit in the Mad River and Noisy River valleys. The communities are strung out: New Lowell is about 7 kilometres south of the Stayner anchor, Nottawa about 10 kilometres west, Creemore about 11 kilometres south-east, Duntroon about 13 kilometres west, Glen Huron about 15 kilometres south and Singhampton about 18 kilometres south-west. People here drive between villages the way city people cross neighbourhoods, and most township life is organised that way: one council, one library system, one minor hockey association, and a hall or an arena in the village where you live.

The civic anchor is the Clearview Township Administration Centre, Box 200, 217 Gideon Street, Stayner, ON L0M 1S0 (705-428-6230), the address the Township itself publishes. The administration offices and the Council Chambers are in that building, and it is one of the three places the Township runs election help on voting day. If a form, a permit or a council question brings you to the township, that is the door.

Stayner, the seat

Stayner carries the township's main plant. The Stayner Community Centre and Arena at 269 Regina Street is home ice for Clearview Minor Hockey's Canucks and for the Stayner Siskins Junior C club, and the library's Stayner Branch shares the same Regina Street campus. Station Park, on Highway 26, is the downtown gathering ground: it is where the Witches Walk assembles in October, and the Township's own park programming runs through it and through Ives Park. Main Street Stayner is the township's shopping street, and the Santa Claus Parade rolls down it in December. Schedules for the arena and the parks belong to the Township and change with the season, so this guide freezes none of them.

Creemore: inside the township, with its own guide

Creemore sits inside Clearview Township and votes in its elections; the township's Ward 2 is Creemore's ward. It is also a complete village with its own main street, its own recreation centre and its own Dayfari town guide, built as a separate town. That is not a contradiction, it is just how the registry keeps things honest: Creemore's events, library programmes and village venues live in Creemore's own guide, and this township guide does not repeat them. What belongs to the township as a whole, the council, the library system, the election, is covered here, once, for everybody including Creemore. The Creemore and District Recreation Centre at 220 Collingwood Street is a Township facility seated in the village; its village programming is Creemore's story to tell.

One library for the whole township

The Clearview Public Library is a township system, created in 1994 when the old municipalities amalgamated, and governed by its own library board. It runs three branches: the Stayner Branch at 269 Regina Street (705-428-3595), the Creemore Branch at 165 Library Street (705-466-3011) and the New Lowell Branch (705-424-6288), housed in New Lowell's reclaimed historic schoolhouse, plus a drop box in Nottawa. Programmes run on the library's own calendar, and the branch matters: Stayner and New Lowell programmes are this township's file, while the Creemore Branch's programmes are listed in Creemore's guide. Branch hours are the library's to publish and this guide freezes none; the dated library event on the Events page comes straight from the library's own calendar.

Council and the township office

Clearview has its own council: seven members, a Mayor and a Deputy Mayor elected at large and five ward councillors, one for each ward. The council seated at the time of writing, the 2022-2026 council per the Township's own 2025 Annual Report, is Mayor Doug Measures, Deputy Mayor Paul Van Staveren, and councillors Phyllis Dineen (Ward 1), Robert McArthur (Ward 2), John Broderick (Ward 3), Robert Walker (Ward 4) and Marty Beelen (Ward 5). Council meets in the Council Chambers at 217 Gideon Street in Stayner, with regular meetings on Mondays at 5:30 p.m. per the Township's published 2026 schedule; the next regular meetings on that schedule are Monday, November 9 and Monday, December 14, 2026, with the inaugural meeting of the new council on Monday, December 7. The Clerk is Sasha Helmkay-Playter, Clerk and Director of Legislative Services, who is also the Township's election contact and the officer who certified the 2026 candidate list.

Voting in Clearview, fall 2026

Clearview votes in the 2026 municipal and school board election on Monday, October 26, 2026. There is no paper ballot and no polling station in the usual sense: under Township Bylaw 25-08 the election runs by internet and telephone only, through Simply Voting, from Monday, October 12, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. to Monday, October 26 at 8:00 p.m. If you need help voting, or need to get on or fix the voters' list, the Township's 2026 Election Procedures publish Election Services Centres on election day, Monday, October 26, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., at the Township Administration Centre, 217 Gideon Street, Stayner; the Creemore Arena, 220 Collingwood Street, Creemore; and the New Lowell Joint Operations Centre, 5212 County Road 9, New Lowell. The Township's election page is the governing source for anything beyond this: advance-period centre dates were not published in a form this guide could verify, so none are printed here.

The certified candidates, from the Township's Certified List of Candidates certified by the Clerk on August 24, 2026, are: for Mayor (one to elect) — Robert McArthur and Doug Measures; for Deputy Mayor (one) — Marty Beelen, Justin McGillvray and Lisa Rolfe; for Councillor, Ward 1 (one) — Phyllis Dineen and Craig Houghton; for Councillor, Ward 2 (one) — Chuck Arrand, Gary Walters and James Webster; for Councillor, Ward 3 (one) — John Broderick and David Witzke; for Councillor, Ward 4 (one) — Larry Culham and Ken Walker; for Councillor, Ward 5 (one) — Rachel Brooks, Robert Thomas and Melanie Walters; for Trustee, Simcoe County District School Board (English Public) — Brandy Rafeek, acclaimed; for Trustee, Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board (English Separate) — Shawn Cooper, acclaimed; for Trustee, Conseil scolaire Viamonde (French Public) — Rachael Golem and Eric Lapointe; and for Trustee, Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir (French Separate) — Donald Blais and Innocent Legrand. This guide lists names and offices only; what each candidate stands for is theirs to publish.

Escarpment country, and who actually runs it

The township's west and south edges climb the Niagara Escarpment, and the two best-known outdoor places there are not Township facilities, which this guide says plainly. Devil's Glen Provincial Park, on County Road 124 near Glen Huron and Duntroon, is a 60.19-hectare recreational-class provincial park in the Mad River valley, governed by Ontario Parks, with a Bruce Trail section running through it. The Nottawasaga Bluffs Conservation Area, at 8861 Sideroad 15/16 Nottawasaga near Singhampton and Glen Huron, is a Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority property of about 400 acres, also crossed by the Bruce Trail. Both sit inside the township and belong in a Clearview day; neither one's fees, rules or programming are the Township's to set, and none are frozen here. The Township's own green spaces are the village parks, Station Park and Ives Park in Stayner among them. One more seat that fools people: the Great Northern Exhibition fairgrounds, at 2220 Fairgrounds Road North, sit inside Clearview on the Stayner side. The fair is run by the Collingwood Agricultural Society, and the Collingwood in that name is the society's, not the fairground's address: its 2026 edition ran September 25 to 27 on Clearview ground, as the Events page records.

Common questions

What is Clearview's population?

14,814 — Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (Township of Clearview census subdivision). That counts the whole township: Stayner, Creemore, New Lowell and every smaller community and farm in between.

Is Creemore part of Clearview?

Yes. Creemore is a village inside Clearview Township: it is in Ward 2, it votes in township elections and it uses the township library system. It also has its own Dayfari guide, because it is a complete village with its own events and venues, and those are listed there, not repeated here.

Where is the municipal office?

At 217 Gideon Street in Stayner: the Clearview Township Administration Centre, Box 200, Stayner, ON L0M 1S0, 705-428-6230. Council Chambers are in the same building.

How do I vote in the 2026 election?

By internet or telephone, from Monday, October 12, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. to Monday, October 26 at 8:00 p.m. There are no paper ballots. In-person help is at the Election Services Centres on election day in Stayner, Creemore and New Lowell, and the Township's election page governs the details.

Is Devil's Glen a township park?

No. Devil's Glen Provincial Park sits inside the township near Glen Huron, but it is an Ontario Parks property. The Nottawasaga Bluffs Conservation Area is likewise an NVCA property. This guide lists both as Clearview places and attributes them to their owners every time.

Which communities are in Clearview Township?

Stayner (the seat), Creemore, New Lowell, Avening, Dunedin, Glen Huron, Singhampton, Duntroon, Nottawa, Brentwood and Cashtown Corners. Collingwood, Wasaga Beach, The Blue Mountains, Springwater, Essa, Mulmur and Grey Highlands are neighbouring municipalities, not part of Clearview.

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