Lennox and Addington County is a
county
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and
census division
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of the
Canadian province
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of
Ontario
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. The county seat is
Greater Napanee. It is located in the subregion of
Southern Ontario named
Eastern Ontario.
Around the middle of the 19th century, the
Addington Road was built by the province to encourage settlement in the northern sections of the county.
Historical evolution
The two original counties of
Lennox and
Addington, respectively named after
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, were organized for electoral purposes in 1792, and were situated within the
Mecklenburg District. Mecklenburg was renamed as the "Midland District" in 1792.
In 1798, the
Parliament of Upper Canada passed legislation to provide, that, at the beginning of 1800:
In 1821, the newly surveyed township of
Kaladar was added to the counties.
In 1845, the counties regained their separate identities, but still remained united for electoral purposes. The newly surveyed township of Anglesea was added to Addington at that time.
Fredericksburgh Township had been settled in 1784, and officially separated into North Fredericksburgh and South Fredericksburgh in 1857.
At the beginning of 1850, Midland District was abolished, and the
United Counties of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington replaced it for municipal and judicial purposes. In 1860, Lennox and Addington were formally amalgamated as the "County of Lennox and Addington", and declared to be the junior county in the United Counties. The townships of Effingham, Abinger, Ashby and Denbigh were added to the County at the same time.
Upon the dissolution of the United Counties at the beginning of 1865, the County became separate for all purposes.
In the late 1990s, the County's municipalities were reorganized to form the town of
Greater Napanee and the townships of
Addington Highlands,
Loyalist, and
Stone Mills.
Demographics
As a
census division
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in the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Lennox and Addington 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.
Notable inhabitants
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Charles Jones, composer
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Terence Dickinson, awards-winning astronomy author and expert in
astrophotography
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Avril Lavigne, musician
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Daniel Woolf, historian and former principal of
Queen’s University
See also
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List of municipalities in Ontario
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List of Ontario Census Divisions
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 ...
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List of townships in Ontario
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References
External links
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Counties in Ontario
1860 establishments in Canada