Hamilton Township is a rural
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
located in
Northumberland County in central
Ontario
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. It surrounds the
Town of Cobourg.
The township was named after
Henry Hamilton, Lieutenant-Governor of
Quebec
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from 1782 to 1785.
Communities
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Baltimore
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Bewdley
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Camborne
Camborne ( kw, Kammbronn) is a town in Cornwall, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 20,845. The northern edge of the parish includes a section of the South West Coast Path, Hell's Mouth and Deadman's Cove.
Camborne was formerl ...
*Cold Springs
*Gores Landing
*Harwood
*Plainville (
)
*Precious Corners (
)
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Hamilton Township had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Mother tongue:
[Statistics Canada 2006 Census ]
Hamilton community profile
Retrieved 2016-03-27
*English as first language: 94.2%
*French as first language: 1.0%
*English and French as first language: 0.1%
*Other as first language: 4.7%
Gallery
File:Harwood Station.jpg, Harwood Station ca.1900
File:Gores Landing Marina 2022.jpg, Gores Landing marina
File:Baltimore ON.JPG, Ball's Mill in Baltimore
File:Bewdley Dock on Rice Lake (6167287501).jpg, Dock in Bewdley
See also
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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
* ...
References
External links
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Township municipalities in Ontario
Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario
Municipalities in Northumberland County, Ontario
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