Horton is a

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in eastern

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, Canada, at the confluence of the

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and the

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. The Town of Renfrew was originally part of Horton Township.

Communities

The township comprises the communities of Castleford, Castleford Station, Cotieville, Fergusons Beach, Goshen,

Lochwinnoch Lochwinnoch (; , ) is a village in the council area and historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. Lying on the banks of Castle Semple Loch and the River Calder, Lochwinnoch is chiefly a residential dormitory v ...

(partially), Mayhew and Thompson Hill.

Castleford

In the 1820s, Lt. Christopher James Bell settled his land grant and named the area

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after his birthplace in West Yorkshire, England. A post office opened at Castleford in 1832, but the town was renamed Warnock in 1889 when the Castleford designation was given to the CPR station at Castleford Station. In 1891 the community name reverted to Castleford. The town of Castleford is the first of five chutes along the

. The others being

Renfrew Renfrew (; ; ) is a town west of Glasgow in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is the historic county town of Renfrewshire. Called the "Cradle of the Royal Stewarts" for its early link with Scotland's former royal house, Renfrew gaine ...

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, Fourth Chute and Eganville. The chutes used were for moving timber past rapids and waterfalls.

Castleford Station

In 1889 the Castleford designation was also given to the CPR station at Castleford Station. Both communities were named after

in West Yorkshire, England.

Goshen

Goshen is a former railway stop on a now abandoned line, probably named for the

Land of Goshen The land of Goshen (, ''ʾEreṣ Gōšen'') is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the area in Egypt that was allotted to the Hebrews by the Pharaoh during the time of Joseph (Book of Genesis, ). They dwelt in Goshen up until the time of the Exo ...

, the Hebrew name of an area in the Nile delta in Ancient Egypt.

Lochwinnoch

The community of

was named for the town of

in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

History

In 1826, the township opened for settlement, and by 1830, it had a population of 21. It was named after Robert Wilmot-Horton, a British member of Parliament who advocated immigration to Canada, and incorporated as a township municipality in 1850. In 1858, the township lost part of its territory when the village of Renfrewville (renamed to Renfrew in 1895) was incorporated to form a separate village municipality.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Horton 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.

Former attraction

* Storyland, closed 2011

References

External links

* {{Authority control Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario Municipalities in Renfrew County Township municipalities in Ontario