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.
18-524: North Glengarry is a township in eastern Ontario , Canada, in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry . It is a predominantly rural area located between Ottawa - Gatineau , Montreal and Cornwall . The township of North Glengarry comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including the following communities: The township administrative offices are located in Alexandria. Alexandria
36-536: 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;
54-477: A change of 0.3% from its 2016 population of 10,109 . With a land area of 643.4 km (248.4 sq mi), it had a population density of 15.8/km (40.8/sq mi) in 2021. Maxville (population 853) hosts the annual Glengarry Highland Games , one of North America's largest festivals of Scottish culture , on the first long weekend in August. The Glengarry Highland Games include traditional Scottish events such as
72-851: A decade. This marks the Glens‘ first Junior "B" Championship. The Glens won the 2008 EOJBHL Championship, defeating the Ottawa West Golden Knights in 6 games in the final. This marks the first time a team the St-Lawrence Division has won the Carson Trophy back to back as league champions. This was also the Glens‘ second Junior "B" Championship. The Maxville Mustangs of the Eastern Ontario Junior C Hockey League used to play in Maxville. Township (Canada) In Eastern Canada ,
90-467: 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
108-606: 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
126-477: A political unit called a rural municipality in general is 3 townships by 3 townships in size, or 18 miles squared, about 324 square miles (840 km ). Three municipalities in British Columbia , Langley , Esquimalt and Spallumcheen , have "township" in their official names but legally hold the status of district municipalities . Maxville Mustangs Too Many Requests If you report this error to
144-484: Is served five or six times a day by the Montreal-Ottawa Via Rail trains which almost all stop at Alexandria station in each direction. Commuter buses provide daily services from Maxville and area to Ottawa-Gatineau . Maxville was served by Via Rail until October 2011. The area was originally settled in 1792 as part of the historic Glengarry County in which many Scottish emigrants settled from all over
162-631: 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 ,
180-589: The Scottish Highlands due to the Highland Clearances . This first wave of heavy migration lasted till 1816, emigration still continued afterwards into the early 20th century but in a slower pace. Many of these migrants came from the Inverness-shire area of Scotland specifically. Canadian Gaelic / Scottish Gaelic has been a spoken language in the area for over four centuries [1792?]. Kenyon, which
198-549: 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
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#1732869290560216-621: The Glengarry Sports Palace ( Billy Gebbie Arena ) in Alexandria. The Glens joined the new CCHL2 league in 2015. The Glens played in the Eastern Ontario Junior B Hockey League until the 2014-15 season. The Glens won the 2007 EOJBHL Championship, defeating the Gatineau Mustangs in 7 games in the final. This marks the first time a team outside of the Metro Division of EOJBHL has won the Carson Trophy as league champions in over half
234-478: The caber toss, tug of war, and the sheaf toss. Maxville hosts a country fair at the end of June that include a classic and new automobile show, homecraft prizes, Western performances, a holstein show including 4-H showmanship, a hunter horse and hunter pony show, a talent show, a midway, laser tag and a demolition derby. The Alexandria Glens of the Central Canada Hockey League Tier 2 play at
252-400: The early 1900s. The township of North Glengarry was established on January 1, 1998, with the amalgamation of the former townships of Kenyon and Lochiel , along with the village of Maxville and the town of Alexandria . In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , North Glengarry had a population of 10,144 living in 4,422 of its 4,714 total private dwellings,
270-417: The first bishop of Kingston. Development in the region was significantly spurred by the development of a railway link between Ottawa and Montreal in the early 1880s. Maxville, Alexandria and Glen Robertson, in particular, became key railway hubs for farmers in the area. Maxville was first incorporated as a village separate from Kenyon Township in 1892, and Alexandria was separated from Lochiel Township in
288-754: 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
306-401: 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
324-504: Was part of Charlottenburgh Township until 1798, was named for British judge and politician Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon , and Lochiel, which was part of Lancaster Township until 1818, was named for the Lochiels of Clan Cameron . Alexandria and its nucleus Priest's Mill , built in 1819, were named for the Catholic priest Alexander Macdonell , who resided at St. Raphael's and later became
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