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Huron County is a
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Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...
, Canada. It is located on the southeast shore of its namesake, Lake Huron, in the southwest part of the province. The county seat is Goderich, also the county's largest community. The population reported in the 2021 Census for this predominantly agricultural area with many villages and small towns was 61,366 in a land area of 3,399 square kilometres. Of the total population, 7,628 reside in Goderich.


History

File:HuronTract.JPG, Original extent of the Huron Tract. File:1850 Tallis Map of West Canada or Ontario ( includes Great Lakes ) - Geographicus - WestCanada-tallis-1850.jpg, Map of Canada West in 1850, with the Huron District outlined in brown. File:1857 Colton Map of Ontario, Canada - Geographicus - CanadaWest-colton-1857.jpg, Canada West in 1857. Huron County is marked in light pink. The portion of the Huron Tract ceded to the Canada Company was established as the "County of Huron" in 1835, with the exception of certain townships that were transferred to other counties: :* Adelaide Township went to Middlesex County :* The townships of Moore and Sarnia, Plympton, Enniskillen, Warwick, Brooke and Bosanquet went to Kent County


Historic townships

In 1835, the county was declared to consist of the following townships: * Biddulph * Blanshard * Colborne * Downie * Ellice * South Easthope * North Easthope * Fullarton * Goderich * Hay * Hibbert * Hullett * Logan * McKillop * McGillivray * Stephen * Stanley * Tuckersmith * Usborne * Williams They have since devolved to the following counties (as outlined in red): File:Ont Huron all.PNG, Huron County File:Ont Huron Middlesex All.PNG, Middlesex County File:Ont Huron Perth All.PNG, Perth County


Territorial evolution

Legislation was passed by the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada in 1838 to authorize the separation of the county from the London District and constitute it as the
Huron District Huron may refer to: People * Wyandot people (or Wendat), indigenous to North America * Wyandot language, spoken by them * Huron-Wendat Nation, a Huron-Wendat First Nation with a community in Wendake, Quebec * Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawato ...
. The county was extended northward in 1840, upon the survey of a new range of townships on its northern boundary, beginning with Ashfield Township, and later including Wawanosh, Morris, Grey and Elma. The District itself came into being in October 1841. Huron County was continued for electoral purposes in 1845, and the District was extended northwards as far as the Bruce Peninsula in 1846. The District (which existed for judicial and municipal purposes) was abolished at the beginning of 1850. Legislation passed later in the same session of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada provided for the county to be reconstituted as the United Counties of Huron, Perth and Bruce, with the territory of the Bruce Peninsula withdrawn and annexed to
Waterloo County Waterloo County was a county in the Canadian province of Ontario from 1853 until 1973. It was the direct predecessor of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. Situated on a subset of land within the Haldimand Tract, the traditional territory of ...
. The townships were distributed as follows: The Bruce Peninsula was later returned to Bruce in 1851. The County of Perth was given its own Provisional Municipal Council at that time, and was separated from the United Counties in 1853. Several townships were transferred to Middlesex County: :* Williams, in 1845 :* Biddulph and McGillivray, in 1862. Legislation was passed in 1866 to provide for the dissolution of the United Counties on January 1, 1867, with Huron and Bruce County becoming separate counties for all purposes.


Government

The Huron County Council consists of fifteen members from the nine area municipalities to ensure that each is represented on this council. Each year, a Warden is elected from the group; this individual chairs meetings and represents the County at various functions. Elected to Ashfeild-Colborne-Wawanosh Council in 2014, and acclaimed as Mayor in 2018, the current Warden is Glen McNeil. Most of the population of the county resides in the Huron—Bruce, formerly Huron and Huron—Middlesex, federal electoral district. The majority also reside in the
Huron—Bruce (provincial electoral district) Huron—Bruce (formerly known as Huron and Huron—Middlesex) is a provincial riding in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1987. It was known as Huron from 1987 to 1999. On March 22, 1940, th ...
formerly known as Huron and Huron—Middlesex. The county's Official Plan (2015) addresses the following issues: "agriculture, community services, the economy, natural environment, extractive resources, and settlement patterns." According to this document, agriculture is a particularly significant part of the economy since "Huron leads all counties and regions in Ontario in total value of production; and it also exceeds the production totals of several provinces".


Municipalities

Huron County comprises nine lower-tier municipalities (in order of population): * Municipality of
South Huron South Huron is a municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the southern part of Huron County. It was formed by amalgamation of the townships of Stephen and Usborne with the Town of Exeter in 2001, in an Ontario-wide municipal ...
(population centre: Exeter) * Municipality of Huron East (population centres: Seaforth, Brussels) * Town of Goderich * Municipality of
Central Huron Central Huron is a township in western Ontario, Canada, in Huron County. It is situated on Lake Huron between the Maitland River and the Bayfield River The Bayfield River is a river in Huron and Perth Counties in southwestern Ontario, Canada ...
(population centre: Clinton) * Municipality of Bluewater (population centre: Bayfield) * Township of Ashfield–Colborne–Wawanosh * Township of North Huron (population centre: Wingham) * Municipality of Howick * Municipality of Morris-Turnberry The boundaries of the county's municipalities have been in effect since 2001, after the provincial government imposed mergers throughout the province.


Demographics

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultu ...
, Huron County 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. Historic populations: * Population in 2001: 59,701 * Population in 1996: 60,220


Communities

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(border with Bruce County) * Auburn * Bayfield * Belgrave * Belmore (border with Bruce County) * Benmiller * Bluevale * Blyth * Brucefield *
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* Carlow * Centralia (border with Middlesex County) * Clinton *
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(border with Middlesex County) * Crediton * Dashwood * Drysdale * Dungannon * Egmondville *
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* Exeter * Fordwich * Goderich * Gorrie * Harpurhey * Hensall * Holmesville * Huron Park * Kinburn * Kingsbridge * Kintail * Kippen * Kirkton (border with Perth County) * Lakelet * Leadbury * Londesborough * Molesworth (border with Perth County) * Mount Carmel (border with Middlesex County) *
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(border with Perth County) * St. Joseph *
Saltford Saltford is a large English village and civil parish in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset. It lies between the cities of Bristol and Bath, and adjoins Keynsham on the same route. Saltford Manor House (built about 116 ...
* Seaforth * Shipka *
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* Sunshine * Vanastra * Varna * Walton * Whitechurch (border with Bruce County) * Wingham * Winthrop *
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(border with
Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
and
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Counties) * Woodham (border with Perth County) * Wroxeter * Zurich


Former communities/ghost towns

* Donnybrook *
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* Mafeking * McGaw * Rodgerville *
Sodom Sodom may refer to: Places Historic * Sodom and Gomorrah, cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis United States * Sodom, Kentucky, a ghost town * Sodom, New York, a hamlet * Sodom, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Sodom, West Virginia, ...
* Spidertown (border with Middlesex County)


See also

* List of municipalities in Ontario * List of Ontario Census Divisions * List of townships in Ontario *
List of counties in Ontario The Province of Ontario has 51 first-level administrative divisions, which collectively cover the whole province. With two exceptions, their areas match the 49 census divisions Statistics Canada has for Ontario. The Province has four types of ...
*
Goderich, Ontario Goderich ( or ) is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario and is the county seat of Huron County. The town was founded by John Galt and William "Tiger" Dunlop of the Canada Company in 1827. First laid out in 1828, the town is named af ...
* List of secondary schools in Ontario#Huron County


References


Further reading

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External links

* {{Authority control Counties in Ontario Lake Huron Southwestern Ontario