Nepean Township is a former incorporated and now geographic

township A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

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, now part of the City of

Ottawa Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern Ontario, southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the cor ...

. Originally known as Township D, it was established in 1792. In 1800, it became part of Carleton County and was incorporated as a township in 1850. The first settler in the township was Jehiel Collins, from

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, who settled in an area near the

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which later became part of

Bytown Bytown is the former name of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was founded on September 26, 1826, incorporated as a town on January 1, 1850, and superseded by the incorporation of the City of Ottawa on January 1, 1855. The founding was marked by a sod ...

. Over the years, parts of Nepean Township were annexed by the expanding city of

. The original town hall of the township of Nepean was located in

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, which became part of Ottawa in 1949. A new town hall was built in Bells Corners in 1966. Nepean was incorporated as a city in 1978 and became part of the amalgamated city of Ottawa in 2001. Nepean Township took its name from Sir

Evan Nepean Sir Evan Nepean, 1st Baronet, PC FRS (9 July 1752 – 2 October 1822)Sparrow (n.d.) was a British politician and colonial administrator. He was the first of the Nepean baronets. Family Nepean was born at St. Stephens near Saltash, Cornwal ...

, British

Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department This article lists past and present parliamentary under-secretaries of state serving the home secretary of the United Kingdom at the Home Office. Non-permanent and parliamentary under-secretaries, 1782–present *April 1782: Evan Nepean *Apri ...

from 1782 to 1791. According to the

Canada 2001 Census The 2001 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was May 15, 2001. On that day, Statistics Canada attempted to count every person in Canada. The total population count of Canada was 30,007,094. This w ...

, the Township (original boundaries) had a population of 339,708. The 1850 boundaries of Nepean Township were the

on the north, the

Rideau River The Rideau River (, ) is a river in Eastern Ontario, Canada. The river flows north from Upper Rideau Lake and empties into the Ottawa River at the Rideau Falls in Ottawa, Ontario. Its length is . As explained in a writing by Samuel de Champl ...

on the east, approximately along where Bankfield Road and Brophy Drive are today on the south, and approximately where Eagleson Road, March Road, and Hertzberg Road are today through to Shirleys Bay on the west. The township included much of what is now

, all of the former City of Nepean, and parts of the former City of Kanata. To the west of Nepean Township was

Goulbourn Goulbourn Township, Ontario, was formed in 1818, roughly 20 km southwest of downtown Ottawa, with the first major settlement occurring in Richmond, Ontario, Richmond. Other communities in the township include Stittsville, Ontario, Stittsvil ...

and March Townships, to the east Gloucester Township, and to the south North Gower Township.

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* 1850 - Frederick Bearman * 1850 - Chester Chapman * 1854 - John Scott * 1856 - George Bell * 1858 - Samuel Davison * 1862 - Nelson George Robinson * 1864 - Thomas Graham * 1865 - John Dawson * 1873 - Col. John Fenton Bearman * 1875 - Thomas Clark * 1886 - John Dawson * 1890 - John Boyce * 1893 - James Bearman * 1896 - George Boyce * 1897 - William Henderson * 1897 - James Bearman * 1900 - Frederick Augustus Heney * 1905 - John George Clark * 1906 - Frederick Augustus Heney * 1913 - Frederick Henry Honeywell * 1916 - Bower Henry * 1919 - William Joynt * 1922 - W. Fred Bell * 1923 - Walter Lionel Graham * 1924 - Albert Bentham Ullett * 1925 - John William Arnott * 1927 - Robert Green * 1929 - Robert Ernest Nelson * 1933 - George Herbert Bradley * 1938 - Robert Mackie * 1939 - John Alexander Dawson * 1945 - Wellington Garfield Cummings * 1947 - Harry Parslow * 1949 - Thomas Campbell Keenan * 1954 - Douglas Aubrey Moodie * 1970 - Andrew S. Haydon

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