The term township , in Canada , is generally the district or area associated with a town. The specific use of the term to describe political subdivisions has varied by country, usually to describe a local rural or semirural government within the country itself.
22-560: Cedar Valley may refer to: Canada [ edit ] Cedar Valley, Peterborough County, Ontario , a town Cedar Valley, Wellington County, Ontario , a hamlet in Erin, Ontario Cedar Valley, Regional Municipality of York , Ontario Cedar Valley, a community in Whitchurch-Stouffville , Ontario United States [ edit ] Arizona [ edit ] Cedar Valley, Arizona ,
44-476: A change of 13.4% from its 2016 population of 8,829 . With a land area of 306.39 km (118.30 sq mi), it had a population density of 32.7/km (84.7/sq mi) in 2021. Cavan is home to Alltech's corn feed facility under the Masterfeeds brand. It was formerly owned by Maple Leaf Foods which opened a feed facility on Peterborough County Road 10 just north of Ontario Highway 115 . Opened in 1975,
66-405: A city Utah [ edit ] Cedar Valley (Iron County, Utah) , United States, the location of Cedar City Cedar Valley (Utah County, Utah) , United States, a valley of Utah Other places [ edit ] Cedar Valley, Antigua and Barbuda , a town Other uses [ edit ] Cedar Valley , a 2018 novel by Australian author Holly Throsby Cedar Valley (Cyprus) ,
88-415: A couple are relegated to just names on a map as cars made transportation easier and service areas concentrated in fewer nodes. Millbrook is the township's population centre. The commercial businesses and services (banking, government) are found along King Street and County Road 10. County Road 10 provides Millbrook with convenient connections with Ontario Highway 115 and Ontario Highway 401 . It has been
110-445: A filming location for several movie productions. Anne with an E (a 2017 CBC production), Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (a 2011 CBC production), The Music Man , Ice Princess , Let It Snow , Feel The Beat , The Town Christmas Forgot and A History of Violence were filmed in the town. In the latter film, Millbrook was depicted as the fictional town of Millbrook, Indiana . The political cartoonist Sam Hunter
132-540: A lower-tier municipality (if located in a county or regional municipality , i.e. in Southern Ontario ) or single-tier municipality (if located in a district, i.e. in Northern Ontario ). A township municipality may consist of a portion of one or more geographic townships united as a single entity with a single municipal administration. Often rural counties are subdivided into townships. In some places, usually if
154-559: A subdivision of counties and as a means of attracting settlers to the colony. In Prince Edward Island, the colonial survey of 1764 established 67 townships, known as lots, and 3 royalties, which were grouped into parishes and hence into counties; the townships were geographically and politically the same. In New Brunswick, parishes have taken over as the present-day subdivision of counties, and present-day Nova Scotia uses districts as appropriate. In Ontario , there are both geographic townships and township municipalities. Geographic townships are
176-564: A valley in the Troodos Mountains [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cedar_Valley&oldid=1223842143 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
198-730: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cedar Valley, Peterborough County, Ontario Cavan Monaghan (known as Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan until 2007) is a township in Peterborough County in central-eastern Ontario , Canada, 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of the city of Peterborough. The original townships of Cavan and Monaghan were surveyed by John Deyell in 1817, and were named after County Cavan and County Monaghan in Ireland , from which many of its settlers had emigrated. By 1819, there were 244 settlers, and by 1861
220-631: The Prairie Provinces and parts of British Columbia , a township is a division of the Dominion Land Survey . Townships are (mostly) 6-by-6-mile (9.7 by 9.7 km) squares, about 36 square miles (93 km ) in area. The townships are not political units (although political boundaries often follow township boundaries) but exist only to define parcels of land relatively simply. Townships are divided into 36 equal 1-by-1-mile (1.6 by 1.6 km) square parcels, known as "sections." In Saskatchewan ,
242-552: The Thanksgiving holiday weekend and is considered one of the most important stock car events in Ontario. Township (Canada) In Eastern Canada , a township is one form of the subdivision of a county . In Quebec, the term is canton in French. The historic colony of Nova Scotia (present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick , and Prince Edward Island ) used the term township as
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#1732855516632264-680: The British Conquest, primarily as a surveying unit. They were designated and cover most of the unattributed territory in Eastern Quebec and what is now known as the Eastern Townships and later used in surveying the Outaouais and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean regions. Townships often served as the territorial basis for new municipalities, but township municipalities are no different from other types such as parish or village municipalities. In
286-725: The Cedar Valley in Iowa and it's communities. Cedar Valley Formation , a geologic formation in Iowa dating back to the Devonian period Cedar Valley, the region surrounding the Cedar River Minnesota [ edit ] Cedar Valley Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota Missouri [ edit ] Cedar Valley, Missouri , an extinct town Ohio [ edit ] Cedar Valley, Ohio , an unincorporated community Oklahoma [ edit ] Cedar Valley, Oklahoma ,
308-472: The facility was then owned by Maple Leaf Mills, which relocated from the Maple Leaf Mills Silos in downtown Toronto . Peterborough Speedway is a 1/3 mile motor racing oval which has been in operation since 1967. The speedway hosts a weekly Saturday night stock car racing program from May to October each year including the annual Autumn Colours Classic. The weekend of races takes place during
330-636: The location of Cedar, Arizona Arkansas [ edit ] Camp Cedar Valley , formerly owned by the Eastern Arkansas Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, located south of Viola, Arkansas . Visit Camp Cedar Valley for more information. Iowa [ edit ] Cedar Valley, Iowa , an unincorporated community in Iowa in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls metropolitan area. Visit Grow Cedar Valley for more information about
352-458: The mid-19th century the "Cavan Blazers" were established as a fiercely Protestant vigilante group, who often burned down the farms of Catholic settlers. The Township of Cavan and the Village of Millbrook, previously part of Durham County , in 1974 became part of Peterborough County, and were amalgamated, along with North Monaghan, into one township — Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan — in 1998. In 2007,
374-432: The original historical administrative subdivisions surveyed and established primarily in the 1800s. They are used primarily for geographic purposes, such as land surveying, natural resource exploration and tracking of phenomena such as forest fires or tornados , but are not political entities. Township municipalities, also called "political townships", are areas that have been incorporated with municipal governments, and are
396-519: The population had risen to 4,901, many of whom were descendants of United Empire Loyalists , veterans of the War of 1812 who had been granted land there, or the original and later settlers from Ireland. After Confederation in 1867, the population began to drop as many families left for Western Canada. The original Irish settlers were Protestants , and many of them were associated with the Orange Order . In
418-401: The township is in a county rather than in a regional municipality , the head of a political township may be called a " reeve ", not a mayor. However, the distinction is changing as many rural townships are replacing the title with "mayor" to reduce confusion. A few townships keep both titles and designate "mayor" as the head of the municipal council and use "reeve" to denote the representative to
440-468: The township was renamed Cavan Monaghan, as many thought the older name was too long. The township of Cavan Monaghan comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including the following communities such as Carmel, Cavan, Cedar Valley, Five Mile Turn, Fraserville, Ida, Millbrook, Mount Pleasant, South Monaghan / Centreville (partially), Springville, Tapley; Bailieboro (partially), Cavan Station, Dranoel, Fairmount, Kendry, Murray Hill. None are incorporated and
462-412: The upper tier (usually county) council. The term "geographic township" is also used in reference to former political townships that were abolished or superseded as part of municipal government restructuring. In Quebec , townships are called cantons in French and can also be political and geographic, similar to Ontario although the geographic use is not used much or at all. They were introduced after
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#1732855516632484-621: Was born and raised in Millbrook, along with award-winning filmmaker Jared Raab, esteemed Aquatic Science Biologist Dustin Raab with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and Juno Award winning singer/songwriter Serena Ryder . Country music singer-songwriter Jade Eagleson was raised in Bailieboro. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Cavan Monaghan had a population of 10,016 living in 3,553 of its 3,704 total private dwellings,
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