10 kilometres North-East of Woodstock. Innerkip is home to Innerkip Central Public School (elementary), Woodstock Trinity Private School, the Innerkip Highlands Golf Course, a public park, a community centre and library, a volunteer fire department, a post office, and several small businesses. Innerkip Quarry, a recreational-nature facility is located near the community. From 1928 until its flooding in 1937, Innerkip Quarry produced gravel for railway beds. It was purchased in 1957 and since then has been used as a camp ground and trailer park. It is also used for SCUBA diving and swimming. The quarry is known for diving although it has only a maximum depth of 30 feet, and the only access is by shore. There are submerged cars, boats and planes for divers to use. Ice diving is popular at the quarry in the winter time. Many companies in Southern Ontario use the quarry for training. There is no diveshop on site, but there is a tank fill station. Tavistock Tavistock is located 15 kilometers southeast of Stratford and five kilometers south of Shakespeare on County Road 59. The area of the village is 2.25 km² Tavistock is home to the Tavistock Braves, a junior hockey team that plays in the Provincial Junior Hockey League, and the Tavistock Royals, a senior hockey team that plays in the Western Ontario Athletic Association Senior Hockey League. Tavistock has hosted the World Crokinole Championship (WCC) tournament annually on the first Saturday of June since 1999. Tavistock was chosen as the host village because it was closest to the Sebastopol, Ontario home of Eckhardt Wettlaufer, the maker of the earliest known board. Government The township is governed by a Mayor (Don McKay acclaimed at November 2006 election, a Deputy Mayor (Maureen Ralph), and 5 Councillors over three geographic wards: Ward 1 (Tavistock village): 2 councillors elected Ward 2 (northern areas of township except Tavistock village): 1 councillor elected Ward 3 (southern areas of township, including Innerkip): 2 councillors elected Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, East Zorra-Tavistock had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Population trend: Population in 2016: 7,129 Population in 2011: 6,836 Population in 2006: 7,350 (or 7,008 when adjusted to 2011 boundaries) Population in 2001: 7,238 Population