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Beverley Township, Ontario
Beverley Township was a township (Canada), township established in 1792 in Home District in the then Upper Canada, today Ontario, Canada. It was named for the town of Beverley in the East_Riding_of_Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, by John Graves Simcoe. The township became part of Halton County, Ontario, Halton County when that county was created as part of Gore District, Upper Canada, Gore District in 1816. The township was also known as Beverly Township when it was transferred to Wentworth County, Ontario, Wentworth County in 1853. When the Regional Municipality of Hamilton–Wentworth was created in 1974, most of Beverley Township was absorbed by Flamborough, Ontario. The area is now part of the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton. See also *List of townships in Ontario *Westover, Ontario References * {{coord, 43, 18, N, 80, 10, W, region:CA-ON_type:city, display=title Geographic townships in Ontario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halton County, Ontario
Halton County is a former county in the Canadian province of Ontario, with an area of . It is also one of the oldest counties in Canada. History Halton County is named after Major William Mathew Halton (1746-1823), a British Army officer, who was appointed in England in 1805 as Secretary to Upper Canada Lieutenant-Governor Sir Francis Gore and spent little time in Canada during his posting (served two terms 1806-1811 and 1815-1816). Settlers started to arrive in the area in the early 1780s. The south was first settled by United Empire Loyalists, and the north was settled mainly by immigrants from the British Isles. In 1788, the area became part of the Nassau District, which was renamed the Home District in 1792. Historic townships * Esquesing Township (area ). Opened in 1819, the first town meeting was held in 1821 when the population was 424. The name ''Esquesing'' was said to come from an Indigenous word meaning "the land of the tall pine(s)", but is more likely to come from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westover, Ontario
Westover, Ontario is a hamlet west of Flamborough in Hamilton, Ontario. In the late 18th century the area was known as Donnybrook (distinct from Donnybrook, Ontario in Huron County). One of the first settlers was William Reid, who arrived in the area in 1798. He sold his land to John Westover in 1828. In 1830, Westover returned with his wife Lydia Havens to settle in Donnybrook. They were both Baptists. The town was likely named for him, since he had established a post office on his land and at his expense in 1835. In 1845, they established the Second Regular Baptist Church of Beverley, which is now the Westover Baptist Church. By 1869, it had saw, shingle, and grist mills and a blacksmith and wagon maker. The village had two general merchants, a teacher, physician, hotel operator, post master, and Rev. H. Smith was a minister of a Methodist Episcopal Church. Notable people * Reuben Rupert Jamieson (1856–1911) born in Westover, was the 16th mayor of Calgary, Alberta * Isaac J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Townships In Ontario
This is a list of townships in the Canadian province of Ontario. Townships are listed by census division. Northern Ontario Northeastern Ontario Algoma District Historical/Geographic Townships *Abbott *Aberdeen Additional *Abigo *Abotossaway *Abraham *Acton *Aguonie *Alanen *Alarie *Albanel *Albert *Alderson *Allenby *Allouez *Amik *Amundsen *Anderson *André *Archibald *Arnott *Ashley *Assad *Assef *Asselin *Atkinson *Avis *Awenge *Aweres *Bailloquet *Barager *Barnes *Bayfield *Beange *Beaton *Beaudin *Beaudry *Beauparlant *Beebe *Behmann *Bernst *Bird *Bolger *Boon *Bostwick *Bouck *Bourinot *Bracci *Bray *Breckenbridge *Bridgland *Bright Additional *Bright *Brimacombe *Broome *Broughton *Brule *Bruyere *Buchan *Buckles *Bullock *Butcher *Byng *Cadeau *Cannard *Carmody *Carney *Casson *Chabanel *Challener *Chapais *Charbonneau *Chelsea *Chenard *Chesley Additional *Chesley *Cholette *Clouston *Cobden *Coderre *Coffin Additional *Common *Concobar *Conking *Cooper *Copenace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Hamilton has a Canada 2016 Census, population of 569,353, and its Census Metropolitan Area, census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington, Ontario, Burlington and Grimsby, Ontario, Grimsby, has a population of 785,184. The city is approximately southwest of Toronto in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). Conceived by George Hamilton (city founder), George Hamilton when he purchased the James Durand, Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, the town of Hamilton became the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe. On January 1, 2001, the current boundaries of Hamilton were created through the amalgamation (politics), amalgamation of the original city with other municipalities of the Regional Municipality of Hamilton–Wentworth. Residents of the city are known as Hamiltonians. Traditionall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flamborough, Ontario
Flamborough is a district and former municipality in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. For most of its existence before amalgamation with Hamilton in 2001, Flamborough comprised the former townships of East Flamborough, West Flamborough, and Beverly, as well as the village of Waterdown. The largest suburban community is the former village of Waterdown containing perhaps one third of its thirty thousand or so inhabitants. Other Flamborough communities include Carlisle, Christie's Corners, Clappison's Corners, Copetown, Freelton, Greensville, Lynden, Kirkwall, Millgrove, Mountsberg, Orkney, Peters Corners, Rockton, Troy, Sheffield, Valens, Strabane and Westover. History Excavations have unearthed evidence of this area’s extensive use by Wendat, Chonnonton (Neutral Nation), Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples throughout the centuries. The escarpment was originally covered with indigenous trails; two are now known as Snake Road (linking this area to the important w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Municipality Of Hamilton–Wentworth
The Regional Municipality of Hamilton–Wentworth was a Regional Municipality in Ontario, Canada, that existed between the dates of January 1, 1974, and January 1, 2001, primarily centered on the City of Hamilton. It was proclaimed and created in 1974 by restructuring Wentworth County and it's constituent municipalities into the newly created Region of Hamilton–Wentworth. It was one of the last Regional Municipalities to be created in Ontario, and it served as an upper-tier level of municipal government, aggregating municipal services on a region-wide basis like the other Counties and Regional Municipalities in Southern Ontario. The Regional Municipality was dissolved in 2001, with the towns and cities in the Region of Hamilton–Wentworth merging to form the current single-tier City of Hamilton, with a 2021 total population of 569,353. Overview Regional Municipalities were an experiment in two-tiered municipalities created between the late 1960s to mid-1970s. They existed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wentworth County, Ontario
Wentworth County, area , is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1816 as part of the Gore District (1816-1849) in what was then Upper Canada and later Canada West (1841-1867). It was named in honour of Sir John Wentworth, the last royal governor of colonial New Hampshire, lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia (1792 to 1808) and an intimate friend of William Jarvis, the first provincial secretary of Upper Canada. The county originally consisted of seven townships that formerly belonged to Haldimand, Lincoln and York Counties. Between 1850 and 1854, Wentworth County and Halton County were briefly joined for government purposes as the United Counties of Wentworth and Halton although for administrative purposes, they remained distinct. In 1973, Wentworth County was replaced by the Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth. In 2001, the Regional Municipality and its six constituent municipalities were amalgamated as the "megacity" of Hamilton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gore District, Upper Canada
The Gore District was a historic district in Upper Canada which existed until 1849. It was formed in 1816 from parts of York County in the Home District and parts of the Niagara District. The district town was Hamilton Hamilton may refer to: People * Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname ** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland ** Lord Hamilto .... Two new counties were created: * Wentworth * Halton In 1838, parts of Halton County and parts of Home and Huron Districts were separated to form a new Wellington District. In 1849, the district was replaced by the United Counties of Wentworth and Halton, which were separated again in 1854. References *Armstrong, Frederick H. ''Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology''. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1985. Districts of Upper Canada 1816 establishments in Upper Canada 1849 disestablishments in Canada {{Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Graves Simcoe
John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York, which is now known as Toronto, and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English common law, and freehold land tenure, and also in the abolition of slavery in Canada. His long-term goal was the development of Upper Canada (Ontario) as a model community built on aristocratic and conservative principles, designed to demonstrate the superiority of those principles to the republicanism of the United States. His energetic efforts were only partially successful in establishing a local gentry, a thriving Church of England, and an anti-American coalition with select indigenous nations. He is seen by many Canadians as a founding figure in Canadian history, especially by those in Southern Ontario. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Township (Canada)
The term township, in Canada, is generally the district or area associated with a town. The specific use of the term to describe political subdivisions has varied by country, usually to describe a local rural or semirural government within the country itself. In Eastern Canada, a township is one form of the subdivision of a county. In Quebec, the term is ''canton'' in French. Maritimes The historic colony of Nova Scotia (present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) used the term ''township'' as a subdivision of counties and as a means of attracting settlers to the colony. In Prince Edward Island, the colonial survey of 1764 established 67 townships, known as lots, and 3 royalties, which were grouped into parishes and hence into counties; the townships were geographically and politically the same. In New Brunswick, parishes have taken over as the present-day subdivision of counties, and present-day Nova Scotia uses districts as appropriate. Ontario In Ontar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorkshire
Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have been undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform. Throughout these changes, Yorkshire has continued to be recognised as a geographic territory and cultural region. The name is familiar and well understood across the United Kingdom and is in common use in the media and the military, and also features in the titles of current areas of civil administration such as North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Within the borders of the historic county of Yorkshire are large stretches of countryside, including the Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors and Peak District national parks. Yorkshire has been nicknamed "God's Own Country" or "God's Own County" by its i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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