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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:

(This page was updated in February 2013.)




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