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.
14-441: Gardiner may refer to: Places [ edit ] Settlements [ edit ] Canada Gardiner, Ontario United States Gardiner, Maine Gardiner, Montana Gardiner (town), New York Gardiner (CDP), New York Gardiner, Oregon Gardiner, Washington West Gardiner, Maine Buildings and landmarks [ edit ] Gardiner Museum ,
28-536: 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 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;
42-1030: A ceramics museum in Toronto Gardiner railway station , in Melbourne Geographical features [ edit ] Antarctica Gardiner Ridge , Ames Range, Marie Byrd Land Australia Gardiner railway station , Melbourne, Victoria Canada Gardiner Dam in Saskatchewan Gardiner Expressway in Toronto Gardiner Island (Nunavut) , uninhabited arctic island in Nunavut United States Gardiners Bay in New York State Gardiners Island in Gardiners Bay Gardiner River (also known as
56-467: 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 the township is in a county rather than in a regional municipality , the head of a political township may be called a " reeve ", not
70-606: 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 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 The term "geographic township" is also used in reference to former political townships that were abolished or superseded as part of municipal government restructuring.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
84-591: Is also astride the Ontario Northland Railway line from Cochrane to Moosonee , but is not served by Polar Bear Express passenger trains. There is also a geographic Gardiner Township in Cochrane District about 150 kilometres (90 mi) northwest of the community. Other map sources: This Northern Ontario geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Township (Canada)#Ontario In Eastern Canada ,
98-421: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gardiner, Ontario Gardiner is a Dispersed Rural Community and unincorporated place in geographic Blount Township, Cochrane District , Ontario , Canada . It is approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of the town of Cochrane , and is the northern terminus of Ontario Highway 579 . The community
112-618: The Gardner River ) in Yellowstone National Park, United States People [ edit ] Lord Gardiner (disambiguation) Baron Gardiner Stagenames [ edit ] Gardiner Sisters People with Gardiner as a surname [ edit ] See Gardiner (surname) People with Gardiner as a first name [ edit ] Gardiner Greene (1753–1832), American cotton planter and merchant Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822–1897), first president of
126-631: 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 ,
140-549: 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 a lower-tier municipality (if located in a county or regional municipality , i.e. in Southern Ontario ) or single-tier municipality (if located in
154-675: The National Geographic Society Ships [ edit ] HMS Gardiner , a British frigate in commission in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1945 Linguistics [ edit ] Gardiner's sign list , a standard method for categorizing ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Gardiner All pages with titles beginning with Gardiner Gardener (disambiguation) Gardner (disambiguation) Justice Gardiner (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
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#1732837073190168-754: The geographic use is not used much or at all. They were introduced after 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
182-507: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gardiner . 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=Gardiner&oldid=1224208581 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
196-401: 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 the original historical administrative subdivisions surveyed and established primarily in
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