Pittsburgh is a former incorporated and now geographic

township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

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 ...

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. Located within

Frontenac County Frontenac County is a county and census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario. The city of Kingston is in the Frontenac census division, but is separated from the County of Fron ...

, it was surveyed in 1787–1788 and named for

William Pitt the Younger William Pitt the Younger (28 May 175923 January 1806) was a British statesman, the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain (before the Acts of Union 1800) and then first prime minister of the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ire ...

, the British prime minister. It was incorporated on January 1, 1850. The township was amalgamated into the city of Kingston effective January 1, 1998. The community still retains the name "Pittsburgh" within the government of Kingston. Pittsburgh Township is home to Fort Henry,

Canadian Forces Base Kingston Canadian Forces Base Kingston (also CFB Kingston) is a Canadian Forces Base operated by the Canadian Army located in Kingston, Ontario. History The Barriefield Military Camp, commonly called Camp Barriefield, was established as a military ba ...

, the

Royal Military College of Canada '') , established = 1876 , type = Military academy , chancellor = Anita Anand ('' la, ex officio, label=none'' as Defence Minister) , principal = Harry Kowal , head_label ...

and the historic community of

Barriefield, Ontario Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located on the north-eastern end of Lake Ontario, at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River (south end of the Rideau Canal). The city is midway between Toront ...

. It includes the east side of the UNESCO-listed

Rideau Canal The Rideau Canal, also known unofficially as the Rideau Waterway, connects Canada's capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, to Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River at Kingston. It is 202 kilometres long. The name ''Rideau'', French for "curtain", ...

Kingston Mills Kingston Mills, located approximately north of downtown Kingston, Ontario, is the southernmost lockstation and one of 24 lockstations of the Rideau Canal system. Kingston Mills is a component of the Rideau Canal National Historic Site, and alon ...

(site of the

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), hosts a handful of

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s serving

Ontario Highway 15 King's Highway15, commonly referred to as Highway15, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. It travels north from an interchange with Highway 401 in Kingston to Highway 7 in Carleton Place, a distanc ...

and former

Ontario Highway 2 King's Highway2, commonly referred to as Highway2, is the lowest-numbered provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, and was originally part of a series of identically numbered highways which started in Windsor, stretche ...

, a federal prison (Pittsburgh and Joyceville Institutions in

Joyceville, Ontario Joyceville is a community in 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 ...

) and three museums ( Military Communications and Electronics Museum, RMC Museum and MacLachlan Woodworking Museum). Pittsburgh Township, separated from Kingston by the

Cataraqui River The Cataraqui River ( ) forms the lower portion of the Rideau Canal and drains into Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario. The name is taken from the original name for Kingston, Ontario; its exact meaning, however, is undetermined. Early maps showed ...

, is linked to the downtown by the

La Salle Causeway The La Salle Causeway is a causeway that allows Highway 2 to cross the Cataraqui River (the southern entrance of the Rideau Canal) at Kingston, Ontario. The causeway separates Kingston's inner and outer harbours. Construction of the causeway was ...

. As of 2020, a new bridge across the Cataraqui River between the La Salle Causeway and

Highway 401 King's Highway 401, commonly referred to as Highway 401 and also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway or colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one, is a controlled-access 400-series highway in the Canadian provin ...

is under construction. It is estimated to be completed by 2022.''The Bridge - Third Crossing - City of Kingston''
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Former reeves

*John Marks 1850–1854 *Samuel Rees 1855–1857 *John Ruttan 1858 *Alexander McArthur 1859–1860 *Hugh McCaugherty 1861–1862 *James Hutton 1863 *William Ferguson Jr. 1864 *Martin Strachan 1865–1870, 1876–1879 *Peter Graham (W) 1871–1875 *Thomas Stark 1880–1881 *Richard Patterson 1882–1884 *Richard Anglin 1885 *Michael Graves 1886 *William Hutton 1887–1888, 1890 *David Trotter 1889 *Thompson Whitney 1891–1893 *William Toner 1894 *John Kane 1895–1896 *John Bennett 1897–1898 *Robert McAlpin 1899 *Daniel C. McLean 1900 *Daniel McLean 1901–1902 *Thomas Maxwell 1903 *James Greenlee 1904 *John McFarlane 1905–1906 *William Franklin (W) 1907–1908, 1912–1917 *Thomas Spence 1909 *James Gordon 1910 *David Rogers 1911 *George Maitland 1918–1920 *John Sibbit (W) 1921–1926, 1932–1938 *Alfred Franklin 1927–1928, 1931 *William Atkinson 1929–1930 *John McMaster (W) 1939–1943 *Wilson Franklin 1944–1945 *Colin Woods (W) 1946–1950 *Robert Wilson 1951–1953 *Earl Shepard (W) 1954–1958 *Eric Pearson (W) 1959–1966 *Hugh Wilson 1967–1968 *Wilmer Nuttal (W) 1969–1971 *Donald Hunter 1972 *Edward Swayne (W) 1973–1980 *Hans Westenberg 1981–1982 *Vincent Maloney 1983–1985 *Cameron English (W) 1986–1988 *Barry Gordon 1989–1994 *Carl Holmberg 1995–1997

References

External links

Canada National Atlas Pittsburg listing
Neighbourhoods in Kingston, Ontario Former municipalities in Ontario Geographic townships in Ontario Populated places disestablished in 1998 {{EasternOntario-geo-stub

Former reeves

See also

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