Nipissing is an incorporated (political) township in Parry Sound District in Central Ontario, Canada.

The township includes the communities of Alsace, Christian Valley, Commanda, Hotham, Nipissing and Wade's Landing.

To lay claim to the property, he made brush piles, and was granted free land by the Government of Ontario.

Around 1869 James Chapman and his wife, Phoebe Edwards, built their first house and barn at the top of the chutes that later took their name.

The family farmed the area and James carried the mail by canoe, dog team and later horse on a route stretching 200 miles (320 km) between the villages of Magnetawan and Mattawa.