ONTARIO County
all Townships avail except:
Mara
Rama
Thorah
all Townships avail
Municipal Heritage
Ajax
Brock
Oshawa
Pickering
Scugog
Uxbridge
Whitby
Doors Open Ajax
Doors Open Oshawa
Doors Open Pickering
Doors Open Whitby
Looking for names of historical inhabitants? Those databases are found on the pages for each Township in this county, not on this County page.
Notes about the formation of Ontario’s earliest Townships, if opened for settlement before 1826, may be found in the Upper Canada Land Grants transcription project. Note: these townships, at formation, may have been created within Counties and Districts that differ from the boundaries depicted here (circa 1870).
The following history notes are excerpts from The Province of Ontario: A History, 1615-1927,by Middleton,J.E. & Langdon, F.,1927, Dominion Publishing Co., Toronto
The name was first borne by a group of islands in the St. Lawrence opposite Kingston, which Governor Simcoe combined for electoral purposes. In 1849, the old name was given to a group of townships cut off from East York and the new County became self-governing. The first settlers had come in the earliest days of the Nineteenth Century.
RENFREW Co.
Admaston
Algona North
Algona South
Alice
Bagot
Blithfield/Blythfield
Bromley
Brougham
Brudenell
Buchan/Buchanan
Burns
Fraser
Grattan
Griffith
Hagarty
Horton
Jones
Lyndoch
Matawatchan
McKay
McNab
Pembroke
Petawawa
Radcliffe
Raglan
Richards
Rolph
Ross
Sebastopol
Sherwood
Stafford
Westmeath
Wilberforce
Wylie
Abinger
ADDINGTON Co.
Adelaide
Adjala
Admaston
Adolphustown
Airy
Albemarle
Albion
Aldborough
Alfred
Algona North
Algona South
Alice
Alnwick
Amabel
Amaranth
Amaranth
Ameliasburgh
Amherst Island
Ancaster
Anderdon
Anglesea
Anson
Anstruther
Armour
Arran
Artemesia
Arthur
Ashby
Ashfield
Asphodel
Athol
Augusta
Bagot
Bangor
Barrie
Barton
Bastard
Bathurst
Baxter
Bayham
Beckwith
Bedford
Belmont
Bentinck
Bertie
Bethune
Beverley
Beverley North
Beverley South
Bexley
Biddulph
Binbrook
Blandford
Blanshard
Blenheim
Blithfield/Blythfield
Bosanquet
Brant
BRANT Co.
Brantford East
Brantford West
Brighton
Brock
Bromley
Brooke
Brougham
Bruce
BRUCE Co.
Brudenell
Brunel
Bruton
Buchan/Buchanan
Burford
Burgess North
Burgess South
Burleigh
Burns
Caledon
Caledonia
Cambridge
Camden
Camden
Canborough
Canonto
Caradoc
Carden
Cardiff
Cardwell
CARLETON Co.
Carling
Carlow
Carrick
Cartwright
Cashel
Cavan
Cavendish
Cayuga North
Cayuga South
Chaffey
Chandos
Chapman
Charlottenburgh
Charlotteville
Chatham
Chinguacousy North
Chinguacousy South
Christie
Clarence
Clarendon
Clarke
Clinton
Clyde
Colborne
Colchester North
Colchester South
Collingwood
Conger
Cornwall
Cowper
Cramahe
Croft
Crosby North
Crosby South
Crowland
Culross
Cumberland
Gainsboro
Galway
Garafraxa
Garafraxa East
Garafraxa West
Georgina
Gibson
Glamorgan
Glanford
Glenelg
GLENGARRY Co.
Gloucester
Goderich
Gore of Toronto
Gosfield
Goulbourn
Gower North
Gower South
Grantham
Grattan
Greenock
GRENVILLE Co.
Grey
GREY Co.
Griffith
Grimsby
Grimsthorpe
Guelph
Guilford
Gwillimbury East
Gwillimbury North
Gwillimbury West
Hagarty
Hagerman
Haldimand
HALDIMAND Co.
HALIBURTON Co.
Hallowell
HALTON Co.
Hamilton
Harburn
Harcourt
Harvey
Harwich
HASTINGS Co.
Havelock
Hawkesbury East
Hawkesbury West
Hay
Herschel
Hibbert
Hillier
Hinchinbrooke
Hindon
Holland
Hope
Horton
Houghton
Howard
Howe Island
Howick
Hullett
Humberstone
Humphry
Hungerford
Huntingdon
Huntley
Huron
HURON Co.
Madoc
Maidstone
Malahide
Malden
Manvers
Mara
March
Mariposa
Markham
Marlborough
Marmora
Maryborough
Marysburgh North
Marysburgh South
Matawatchan
Matchedash
Matilda
Mayo
McAulay
McClintock
McClure
McDougall
McGillivray
McKay
McKellar
McKillop
McLean
McMurrich
McNab
Medonte
Medora
Melancthon
Melancthon
Mersea
Metcalfe
Methuen
MIDDLESEX Co.
Middleton
Miller
Minden
Minto
Monaghan North
Monaghan South
Monck
Monmouth
Mono
Mono
Montague
Monteagle
Monteith
Moore
Mornington
Morris
Morrison
Mosa
Moulton
Mountain
Mulmur
Mulmur
Murchison
Murray
Muskoka
MUSKOKA Dist.
North Algona
North Beverley
North Burgess
North Cayuga
North Chinguacousy
North Colchester
North Crosby
North Dorchester
North Dumfries
North Easthope
North Elmsley
North Esquesing
North Fredericksburgh
North Gower
North Gwillimbury
North King
North Marysburgh
North Monaghan
North Norwich
North Orillia
North Oxford
North Plantagenet
North Sherbrooke
North Toronto
North Trafalgar
South Algona
South Beverley
South Burgess
South Cayuga
South Chinguacousy
South Colchester
South Crosby
South Dorchester
South Dumfries
South Easthope
South Elmsley
South Esquesing
South Fredericksburgh
South Gower
South Marysburgh
South Monaghan
South Norwich
South Orillia
South Plantagenet
South Sandwich
South Sherbrooke
South Toronto
South Trafalgar
Southwold
Sabine
Saltfleet
Sandwich East
Sandwich South
Sandwich West
Sarawak-Keppel
Sarnia
Saugeen
Scarborough
Scott
Scugog
Sebastopol
Seneca
Seymour
Sheffield
Sherborne
Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke North
Sherbrooke South
Sherwood
Sidney
SIMCOE Co.
Sinclair
Smith
Snowdon
Sombra
Somerville
Sophiasburgh
Southwold
Spence
St. Edmunds
St. Vincent
Stafford
Stamford
Stanhope
Stanley
Stephen
Stephenson
Stisted
STORMONT Co.
Storrington
Strong
Sullivan
Sunnidale
Sydenham
Wainfleet
Wallace
Walpole
Walsingham
Warwick
Waterloo
WATERLOO Co.
Watt
Wawanosh East
Wawanosh West
WELLAND Co.
Wellesley
WELLINGTON Co.
WENTWORTH Co.
Westmeath
Westminster
Whitby
Whitby East
Whitchurch
Wicklow
Wilberforce
Williams East
Williams West
Williamsburgh
Willoughby
Wilmot
Winchester
Windham
Wolfe Island
Wolford
Wollaston
Wood
Woodhouse
Woodhouse
Woolwich
Wylie
HeritagePIN’s own updated list of Named Villages and Settlements in Ontario, based on the 1857 Canada Directory (Lovell) and the 1869 Province of Ontario Gazetteer and Directory (McEvoy/Clark), and on descriptions found in 30+ pre-Confederation directories.
See also notes about Administrative Districts that crossed established boundaries.
Many more details and maps are found in the pages for each Township (follow links).
Resources:
Finding Places in Ontario by John Cardinal