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The Bathurst District was a historic
The Bathurst District was a historic district
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in Upper Canada
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. It was created in 1822 from the Johnstown District. Containing Carleton County
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The western border is Aroostook County, Maine, the northern border is Victoria County, and the southeastern border is York County from which it was fo ...
, it existed until 1849. The district town was Perth
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.
History
In 1824,Lanark County
Lanark County is a county located in the Canadian province of Ontario. Its county seat is Perth, which was first settled in 1816.Brown, Howard Morton, 1984. Lanark Legacy, Nineteenth Century Glimpses of on Ontario County. Corporation of the Cou ...
was created from part of Carleton County, so that its constituent townships were divided as follows:
In 1838, upon the creation of the Dalhousie District
The Dalhousie District was a historic district in Upper Canada which existed until 1849. It was created in 1838 from Carleton County in the Bathurst District. Townships from the Johnstown and Ottawa districts were added to Carleton County at the ...
, the townships were reorganized as follows:
By 1845, all lands in the District had been surveyed into the following townships:
Effective January 1, 1850, Bathurst District was abolished, and the United Counties of Lanark and Renfrew
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replaced it for municipal and judicial purposes.
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