Pittsburgh 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 ...

Ontario Ontario is the southernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the Population of Canada by province and territory, country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it ...

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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 Front ...

, it was surveyed in 1787–1788 and named for

William Pitt the Younger William Pitt (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British statesman who served as the last prime minister of Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, and then first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, p ...

, the British prime minister. It was incorporated on January 1, 1850. The township was amalgamated into the city of

Kingston Kingston may refer to: Places * List of places called Kingston, including the six most populated: ** Kingston, Jamaica ** Kingston upon Hull, England ** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia ** Kingston, Ontario, Canada ** Kingston upon Thames, ...

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, the

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and the historic community of Barriefield, Ontario. It includes the east side of the UNESCO-listed

Rideau Canal The Rideau Canal is a 202-kilometre long canal that links the Ottawa River at Ottawa with the Cataraqui River and Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Its 46 Lock (water navigation), locks raise boats from the Ottawa River 83 metres (272 ...

Kingston Mills Kingston Mills is a community within the City of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, located approximately north of downtown Kingston at the outlet of Colonel By Lake where the Canadian National Railway, CN mainline railway crosses the Cataraqui River. I ...

(site of the Shafia family murders), hosts a handful of

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s serving

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and former

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, a federal prison (Pittsburgh and Joyceville Institutions in Joyceville, Ontario) 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 Waaban Crossing, located 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 prov ...

, opened in 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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