Townships of Eastern Ontario
County of Addington:
Organized: 1792 (never a separate entity from Lennox)
Area: Information unavailable
Name Source: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Townships: Abinger, Anglesea, Ashby, Camden, Denbigh, Effingham, Kaladar, Sheffield
County of Carleton:
Organized: 1800
Area: 2 120 km²
Name Source: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, Governor of Quebec, 1768-1778 and 1785-1795, and Governor-General of British North America, 1766-1778
Townships: Fitzroy, Gloucester, Goulbourn, Huntley, March, Marlborough, Nepean, North Gower, Osgoode, Torbolton
County of Dundas:
Organized: 1792
Area: 957 km²
Name Source: Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, British War Secretary 1794-1801
Townships: Mathilda, Mountain, Williamsburgh, Winchester
County of Durham:
Organized: 1792
Area: 1 523 km²
Name Source: A county and a city in England
Townships: Cartwright, Cavan, Clarke, Darlington, Hope, Manvers
County of Frontenac:
Organized: 1792
Area: 3 337 km²
Name Source: Count Frontenac, Governor of New France, 1672-1682
Townships: Barrie, Bedford, Clarenton, Hinchinbrooke, Howe Island, Kennebec, Kingston, Loughborough, Miller, North Canonto, Olden, Oso, Palmerston, Pittsburgh, Portland, South Canonto, Storrington, Wolfe Island
County of Glengarry:
Organized: 1784
Area: 1 238 km²
Name Source: The area of Scotland from where many of the early settlers came.
Townships: Charlottenburgh, Kenyon, Lancaster, Lochiel
County of Grenville:
Organized: 1792
Area: 1 102 km²
Name Source: William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Secretary of State in 1790.
Townships: Augusta, Edwardsburgh, Oxford, South Gower, Wolford
County of Haliburton:
Organized: 1874
Area: 4 072 km²
Name Source: Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author, statesman, and the first chairman of the Canadian Land and Emigration Company
Townships: Anson, Bruton, Carduff, Clyde, Dudley, Dysart, Eyre, Glamorgan, Guilford, Harburn, Harcourt, Havelock, Hindon, Lawrence, Livingstone, Lutterworth, McClintock, Minden, Monmouth, Nightingale, Sherborne, Snowdon, Stanhope
County of Hastings:
Organized: 1792
Area: 6 103 km²
Name Source: Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, an Irish-British politician and military officer who served as Governor-General of India, 1813-1823
Townships: Bangor, Carlow, Cashel, Dungannon, Elzevir, Faraday, Grimsthorpe, Herschel, Hungerford, Huntingdon, Lake, Limerick, McClure, Madoc, Marmora, Mayo, Monteagle, Rawdon, Sidney, Thurlow, Tudor, Tyendinaga, Wicklow, Wollaston
County of Lanark:
Organized: 1851
Area: 3 034 km²
Name Source: A town in Scotland
Townships: Bathurst, Beckwith, Dalhousie, Darling, Drummond, Lanark, Lavant, Montague, North Burgess, North Elmsley, North Sherbrooke, Pakenham, Ramsay, South Sherbrooke
County of Leeds:
Organized: 1792
Area: 2 282 km²
Name Source: Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds of West Yorkshire, England
Townships: Bastard, Elizabethtown, Front of Escott, Front of Leeds and Lansdowne, Front of Yonge, Kitley, North Crosby, Rear of Leeds and Lansdowne, Rear of Yonge and Escott, South Burgess, South Crosby, South Elmsley
County of Lennox:
Organized: 1792 (never a separate entity from Addington)
Area: Information unavailable
Name Source: Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Townships: Adolphustown, Amherst Island, Ernestown, North Fredericksburgh, Richmond, South Fredericksburgh
County of Northumberland:
Organized: 1791
Area: 1 905 km²
Name Source: A county in England
Townships: Alnwick, Brighton, Cramahe, Haldimand, Hamilton, Murray, Percy, Seymour
County of Ontario:
Organized: 1852
Area: 2 080 km²
Name Source: Lake Ontario, which it bordered
Townships: Brock, East Whitby, Mara, Pickering, Rama, Reach, Scott, Scugog, Thora, Uxbridge, West Whitby
County of Peterborough:
Organized: 1850
Area: 3 784 km²
Name Source: Colonel Peter Robinson, who brought 2,000 settlers from Ireland in 1825
Townships: Anstruther, Asphodel, Belmont, Burleigh, Cavendish, Chandos, Douro, Dummer, Ennismore, Galway, Harvey, Methuen, North Monaghan, Otonabee, Smith, South Monaghan
County of Prescott:
Organized: 1800
Area: 2 004 km²
Name Source: Major General Robert Prescott, Governor of Canada, 1786-1808
Townships: Alfred, Caledonia, East Hawkesbury, Longueuil, North Plantagenet, South Plantagenet, West Hawkesbury
County of Prince Edward:
Organized: 1792
Area: 1 050 km²
Name Source: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (the fourth son of King George III), who was commander-in-chief of British North America
Townships: Ameliasburgh, Athol, Hillier, Hallowell, North Marysburgh, Sophiasburgh, South Marysburgh
County of Renfrew:
Organized: 1851
Area: 7 441 km²
Name Source: A county in Scotland
Townships: Admaston, Alice, Bagot, Blithfield, Bromley, Brougham, Brudenell, Buchanan, Burns, Clara, Fraser, Grattan, Griffith, Hagarty, Head, Horton, Jones, Lyndoch, McKay, McNab, Maria, Matawatchan, North Algona, Pembroke, Petawawa, Radcliffe, Raglan, Richards, Rolph, Ross, South Algona, Sebastopol, Sherwood, Stafford, Westmeath, Wilberforce, Wylie
County of Russell:
Organized: 1800
Area: 1 676 km²
Name Source: Peter Russell, an Upper Canada government administrator
Townships: Cambridge, Clarence, Cumberland, Russell
County of Stormont:
Organized: 1792
Area: 1 006 km²
Name Source: Sir David Murray, 1st Viscount Stormont, of Perth, Scotland
Townships: Cornwall, Finch, Osnabruck, Roxborough
County of Victoria:
Organized: 1851
Area: 2 871 km²
Name Source: Queen Victoria of the British Empire
Townships: Bexley, Carden, Dalton, Digby, Eldon, Emily, Fenelon, Laxton, Longford, Mariposa, Ops, Somerville, Verulam
United Counties of Durham and Northumberland:
Organized: 1802
Area: 2 677 km²
United Counties of Leeds and Grenville:
Organized: 1850
Area: 3 384 km²
United Counties of Lennox and Addington:
Organized: 1860
Area: 2 777 km²
United Counties of Prescott and Russell:
Organized: 1820
Area: 3 680 km²
United Counties of Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry:
Organized: 1850
Area: 3 309 km²
Sources:
- County of Lennox and Addington
- Dundas County, Ontario GenWeb
- Frontenac County, Canada GenWeb
- Hastings County: History and Genealogy
- Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
- Lanark County: History and Maps
- Ontario GenWeb: Northumberland
- Ontario GenWeb: Renfrew
- ;Ontario GenWeb: Russell
- Ontario GenWeb: Victoria
- Stormont County GenWeb, Ontario
- Peterborough County GenWeb
- The County of Haliburton
- “Census of Canada, 1831” p. 488 (DDV CA1 BSC 1931 v.8 )
- Sarah, Archivist, Whitby Archives | Whitby Public Library, Whitby, Ontario
- Lesley Todd, County Clerk, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, Brockville, Ontario
- Maps, Data & Government Information Centre Staff, Carleton University Library, Ottawa, Ontario
- Wikipedia
(This page was updated in February 2013.)