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Townships of Western Ontario

County of Brant:

Organized: 1851
Area: 843 km²
Name Source: Chief Joseph Brant of the Mohawks

Townships: Brantford, Burford, Oakland, Onondaga, South Dumfries, Tuscarora

County of Bruce:

Organized: 1867
Area: 4 156 km²
Name Source: James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, Governor-General of Canada, 1847-1854

Townships: Albemarle, Amabel. Arran, Brant, Bruce, Carrick, Culross, Eastnor, Elderslie, Greenock, Huron, Kincardine, Kinloss, Lindsay, St. Edmund, Saugeen

County of Dufferin:

Organized: 1881
Area: 1 456 km²
Name Source: Marquess of Dufferin, Governor-General of Canada 1872-1878

Townships: Amaranth, East Luther, East Garafraxa, Melancthon, Mono, Mulmur

County of Elgin:

Organized: 1852
Area: 1 881 km²
Name Source: James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, Governor-General of Canada, 1847-1854

Townships: Aldborough, Bayham, Dunwich, Malahide, South Dorchester, Southwold, Yarmouth

County of Essex:

Organized: 1792
Area: 1 851 km²
Name Source: A county in England

Townships: Anderdon, Colchester North, Colchester South, Gosfield North, Gosfield South, Gosfield North, Gosfield South, Malden, Mersea, Rochester, Sandwich East, Sandwich South, Tilbury North, Tilbury West

County of Grey:

Organized: 1852
Area: 4 426 km²
Name Source: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prinme Minister of Great Britain, 1830-1834

Townships: Artemesia, Bentinck, Collingwood, Derby, Egremont, Euphrasia, Glenelg, Holland, Keppy, Normanby, Osprey, Proton, St. Vincent, Sullivan, Sydenham

County of Haldimand :

Organized: 1800
Area: 1 252 km²
Name Source: Sir Frederick Haldimand, Governor of Quebec, 1778-1784

Townships: Canborough, Oneida, Walpole, Dunn, Moulton, North Cayuga, Rainham, Seneca, Sherbrooke, South Cayuga

County of Halton:

Organized: 1816
Area: 964 km²
Name Source: Upper Canada’s Secretary Major William Halton. arrived in Upper Canada in 1806 acting as private secretary to a lieutenant-governor and later served as provincial agent for Upper Canada

Townships: Esquesing, Nassagaweya, Nelson, Trafalgar

County of Huron:

Organized: 1849
Area: 3 408 km²
Name Source: An Indian tribe living along the Upper Lake Huron and Georgian Bay

Townships: Ashfield, Colborne, East Wawanosh, Goderich, Grey, Hay, Howick, Hullett, McKillop, Morris, Stanley, Stephen, Tuckersmith, Turnberry, Usborne, West Wawanosh

County of Kent:

Organized: 1792
Area: 2 258 km²
Name Source: A county in England

Townships: Camden, Chatham, Dover, Harwich, Howard, Orford, Raleigh, Romney, Tilbury, Zone

County of Lambton:

Organized: 1852
Area: 3 002 km²
Name Source: John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Governor-General of Canada, who had lived in Lambton Castle in England

Townships: Bosanquet, Brooke, Dawn, Enniskillen, Euphemia, Moore, Plympton, Sarnia, Sombra, Warwick

County of Lincoln:

Organized: 1792
Area: 795 km²
Name Source: Lincolnshire, a county in England

Townships: Catstor, Clinton, Gainsborough, Grantham, Louth, Niagara, North Grimsby, South Grimsby

County of Middlesex:

Organized: 1800
Area: 2 196 km²
Name Source: A county in England

Townships: Adelaide, Biddulph, Caradoc, Delaware, East Williams, Ekfrid, Lobo, London, McGillivray, Metcalfe, Mosa, North Dorchester, West Nissouri, West Williams, Westminster

County of Norfolk:

Organized: 1792
Area: 1 607 km²
Name Source: A county in England

Townships: Charlotteville, Houghton, Middleton, North Walsingham, South Walsingham, Townsend, Windham, Woodhouse

County of Oxford:

Organized: 1850
Area: 2 039 km²
Name Source: A county in England

Townships: Blandford, Blenheim, Dereham, East Nissouri, East Oxford, East Zorra, North Norwich, North Oxford, South Norwich, West Oxford, West Zorra

County of Peel:

Organized: 1851
Area: 1 247 km²
Name Source: Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1834-835 and 1841-1846

Townships: Albion, Caledon, Chinguacousy, Toronto, Toronto Gore

County of Perth:

Organized: 1850
Area: 2 123 km²
Name Source: A county in Scotland, as selected by John Linton, a former lawyer from Scotland who had settled in Stratford.

Townships: Blanshard, Downie, Ellice, Elma, Fullarton, Hibbert, Logan, Mornington, North Easthope, South Easthope, Wallace

County of Simcoe:

Organized: 1850
Area: 4 859 km²
Name Source: Upper Canada’s first Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe. 1791–1796

Townships: Adjala, Essa, Flos, Innisfil, Matchedash, Medonte, Nottawasaga, Orillia, Oro, Sunnidale, Tay, Tecumseth, Tiny, Tosorontio, Vespra, West Gwillambury

County of Waterloo:

Organized: 1852
Area: 1 369 km²
Name Source: The final battle of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe

Townships: North Dumfries, Waterloo, Wellesley, Wilmot, Woolwich

County of Welland:

Organized: 1845
Area: 880 km²
Name Source: The Welland River, which was named by John Graves Simcoe after a stream in Lincolnshire, England

Townships: Bertie, Crowland, Humberstone, Pelham, Stamford, Thorold, Wainfleet, Willoughby

County of Wellington:

Organized: 1840
Area: 2 569 km²
Name Source: Arthur Wellesley, the First Duke of Wellington

Townships: Arthur, Erin, Framosa, Guelph, Maryborough, Minto, Nicol, Peel, Pilkington, Puslinch, West Garafraxa, West Luther

County of Wentworth:

Organized: 1816
Area: 1 089 km²
Name Source: Sir John Wentworth, last Governor of colonial New Hampshire, and later Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, 1792-1808

Townships: Ancaster, Barton, Beverly, Binbrook, East Flamborough, Glanford, Saltfleet, West Flamborough

County of York:

Organized: 1792
Area: 2 357 km²
Name Source: A county in England

Townships: East Gwilliam, East York, Etobicoke, Georgina, King, Markham, North Gwilliam, North York, Scarborough, Vaughan, Whitchurch, York

Sources:

About Halton’s Heritage
Huron County, Ontario GenWeb
Lincoln County, Ontario GenWeb
Midddlesex County GenWeb
Oxford County, Ontario GenWeb
Simcoe County, Ontario GenWeb
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Wellington County
York County, Ontario GenWeb
Hugh J. M. Johnston. History of Perth County to 1967. Stratford, Ont. County of Perth. 1967.
Sean McCoy, Clerk-Secretary, Stratford-Perth Archives, Stratford, Ontario
Charlotte Woodley, Archivist, Region of Waterloo Archives, Kitchener, Ontario
Wikipedia

(This page was updated in February 2013.)