PERTH COUNTY, ONTARIO

'Perth County, Ontario' is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is Stratford. It is located in Southwestern Ontario, 161 km west of Toronto. It encompasses 2191.21 km² (541,440 acres), 90% of which is classified as prime agricultural land (Classes 1, 2, and 3). According to the 2001 census, the population of Perth County was 73 675.
The county includes:

★ Township of North Perth

★ Township of Perth East

★ Township of Perth South

★ Township of West Perth
The City of Stratford and Town of St. Marys are part of the census division, but both have been separated from the county's jurisdiction.

Contents

Historic townships

See also

Communities in Perth County

Independent

North Perth

Perth East

Perth South

West Perth

Other

External links

Historic townships

Perth County, area , was mainly settled through the agency of the Canada Company which opened a road from the site of Stratford to Goderich.

★ ''Blanshard Township'', area . Opened in 1830 and named from Richard Blanshard, Director of the Canada Company.

★ ''Downie Township'', area . The township was opened for settlement in 1830 and named in honour of Robert Downie, M.P. , one of the directors of the Canada Company.

★ ''Easthope Townships'' (North and South). Areas 43,117 and . Named from Sir John Easthope, M.P. A Director of the Canada Company. Opened for settlement in 1830. Until 1843 the townships were one.

★ ''Ellice Township''. Area . Opened in 1830 and named in honour of Rt. Hon. Edward Ellice, a Canadian-born director of the Canada Company. His father was managing director of the Hudson's Bay Company.

★ ''Elma Township'', Area . Opened in 1849 although the first settlers, Samuel an George Code, came in 1848. Named in honour of Lady Elma Bruce, daughter of the eight Earl of Elgin, Governor-general of Canada

★ ''Fullarton Township''. Area . Opened in 1830 and named from John Fullarton, Director of the Canada Company.

★ ''Hibbert Township''. Area . Opened in 1830 and named in honour of William T. Hibbert, Director of the Canada. First settler was Thomas Fox who received of land from the Company on the condition he open an inn for travelers on the Huron Road.

★ ''Logan Township''. Area . Opened for settlement in 1830. Named in honour of Hart Logan, Director of the Canada Company and uncle of Sir William E. Logan, the founder of the Canadian Geological Survey.

★ ''Mornington Township'' Area . Opened for settlement in 1845 and surveyed in 1850. Named in honour of the second Earl of Mornington, eldest brother of the Duke of Wellington.

★ ''Wallace Township''. Area . Opened for settlement in 1849 and named in honour of Thomas, Baron Wallace, Vice-president of the British Board of Trade under Lord Goderich in 1820.
''City of Stratford''. In Downie, Ellice and Easthope Township. In 1831 William Sergeant was given a lot by the Canada Company on the condition that he open an inn. In 1832 he erected the first frame building in the region by the Avon River and called it the "Shakespeare Hotel." First purchaser of land was John Sharman (1834), a blacksmith from Bedfordshire, England. His son, Henry, was the first child born within the limits of the city.
Source: ''Province of Ontario -- A History 1615 to 1927'' by Jesse Edgar Middletwon & Fred Landon, copyright 1927, Dominion Publishing Company, Toronto

See also

★ List of Ontario Census Divisions

Communities in Perth County

Independent

★ Stratford

★ St. Marys

North Perth

★ Atwood

★ Britton

★ Donegal

★ Gowanstown

★ Kurtzville

★ Listowel

★ Monkton

★ Newry

★ Teviotdale

★ Trowbridge

★ Wallace

Perth East

★ Brunner

★ Dorking

★ Milverton

★ Millbank

★ Newton

★ Gads Hill

★ Poole

★ Rostock

★ Shakespeare

★ Wartburg

Perth South

★ Anderson

★ Avonbank

★ Avonton

★ Conroy

★ Flannigan Corners

★ Harmony

★ Kirkton

★ Rannoch

★ Sebringville

★ St. Paul's

★ Woodham

West Perth

★ Bornholm

★ Brodhagen

★ Dublin

★ Fullarton

★ Mitchell

★ Russeldale

★ St. Columban

★ Staffa

Other

★ Carlingford

★ Carthage

★ Cromarty

★ Hesson

★ Kinkora

★ Lisbon

★ Motherwell

★ Nithburg

★ Prospect Hill

★ Sebastopol

★ Topping

★ Wallen Corners

External links

★ County of Perth website

★ History of Perth County