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16-531: Port Carling is an unincorporated community in the Township of Muskoka Lakes in the Canadian province of Ontario . It has been the municipal seat of the township since 1971. It has several hundred year-round residents and is a service centre for thousands of other seasonal residents in the area. Besides the town, which maintains much of its older architecture, there are several tourist and cultural sites: Port Carling

32-588: A district or municipality , used in local government elections. In the United States, wards are usually subdivided into precincts for polling purposes. In Wisconsin, a 'ward' is what in most other states would be a precinct In some cities of India , such as Mumbai and Delhi , a ward is an administrative unit of the city region; a city area is divided into Zones, which in turn contain numerous wards. The smallest administrative unit of Gram Panchayats in India

48-489: A niche market after his relatives developed the disappearing propeller boat and operated the company under that name for a while. Port Carling became independent of Medora Township and was incorporated as a village in 1896 (a status it would keep until 1971). As it grew, the locks were widened in 1903 to permit steamship traffic and in 1922 smaller pleasure boat locks were installed. The Port Carling Volunteer Fire Department began in 1912 and got its biggest workout in 1931 when

64-595: A post office here and called it Port Carling. John Carling , the Ontario Minister of Public Works, was a booster of the locks between the lakes which were completed in 1871. This led to an economic boom fuelled by tourism and logging, resulting in the building of four resorts, two sawmills and three Protestant churches of the 1870s. The Orange Order was active in the area, and few Catholics settled here. The Port Carling Boat Works Ltd. traces its origins to an enterprise started in 1868 by William J. Johnston. It captured

80-548: A series of fires ravaged the boat works and much of the downtown. James Bartleman has been Port Carling's most prominent government official outside the community. The part-Ojibway man was a diplomat and lieutenant governor of Ontario . He wrote Out of Muskoka , a personal reminiscence of his upbringing and some of the less savoury aspects of local history. 45°06′49″N 79°34′23″W  /  45.113509°N 79.57296°W  / 45.113509; -79.57296 Muskoka Lakes, Ontario The Township of Muskoka Lakes

96-709: Is a municipality of the District Municipality of Muskoka , Ontario , Canada. It has a year-round population of 7,652. The municipal offices are located in Port Carling . The area now covered by the township was opened for settlement and organized in 1870 into the following geographic (and sometime municipal) townships of Watt, Cardwell, Humphrey, Christie, Medora and Wood. In 1971, the current municipal structure took hold when Cardwell Township, Watt Township, Medora and Wood Townships, Bala , Port Carling , Windermere and part of Monck Township were merged. Muskoka

112-490: Is also known as a ward. In Bangladesh wards are subdivisions of a city or town which administrates under City Corporations and municipalities ( pourashova ) In East Africa, the word ward used in English is translated into Swahili/Kiswahili as Kata. In the case of a municipal amalgamation , the former cities and towns that make up the new metropolis may be referred to as wards. In Monaco , wards are informal divisions of

128-533: Is governed by an elected Town Council consisting of a Mayor, District Councillors and Councillors representing each of the town's three wards . In addition, three Regional Councillors each represent a ward each. The Mayor and Councillors sit on the Muskoka County Council. The township is located on Canadian Shield and thus is marked with outcrops of igneous rock and evergreen trees. Although inland from both Lake Huron 's Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe ,

144-536: Is located on the Indian River and owes its importance to its key position on the water routes of the area. A set of locks joins Lake Muskoka and Lake Rosseau , so much boat and ship traffic in the township passes through, hence its nickname Hub of the Lakes . The community is directly located on the two-lane Muskoka Road 118, and improvements to Highway 69 now link it to the controlled-access freeway Highway 400 and

160-412: The 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Muskoka Lakes had a population of 7,652 living in 3,529 of its 9,443 total private dwellings, a change of 16.2% from its 2016 population of 6,588 . With a land area of 774.46 km (299.02 sq mi), it had a population density of 9.9/km (25.6/sq mi) in 2021. Timber was initially the greatest economic attraction for

176-595: The 12th century. The word was much later applied to divisions of other cities and towns in England and Wales and Ireland . In parts of northern England , a ward was an administrative subdivision of a county , very similar to a hundred in other parts of England. In Australia , Canada , New Zealand , South Africa , Sri Lanka , the United Kingdom , and the United States , wards are an electoral district , within

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192-561: The Norma and Miller Alloway Muskoka Lakes Library main branch in the town of Port Carling , and three small branches housed in the community centres of Bala , Milford Bay, and Walker's Point. Ward (subnational entity) The word "ward", for an electoral subdivision, appears to have originated in the Wards of the City of London , where gatherings for each ward known as "wardmotes" have taken place since

208-502: The country, grouped into quartiers. In the Republic of Ireland , urban divisions were called wards and rural ones were called district electoral divisions . Both were renamed as electoral divisions in 1996. The electoral districts for Irish local authorities are local electoral areas . These are generally defined as combinations of electoral divisions, and in urban areas were formally described as combination of wards. In Japan ,

224-469: The region. The soil is poor and rocky and consequently is not especially suited to agriculture . As the resource industries dried up, the area soon embraced tourism as its economic base because of its proximity to Toronto and the rest of Southern Ontario . For many Ontarians, this is the centre of cottage country . The Muskoka Lakes Township Public Libraries offers research, literature, and cultural resources to local residents. The libraries consist of

240-718: The sometimes divided Highway 11 . This has greatly facilitated its increasing role as a tourist destination from the Toronto area . The Ojibway settled in the area in the 1850s. They called their settlement Obajewanung or Obogawanung, while Europeans called it Indian Gardens. Before white settlers moved into the newly surveyed Medora Township starting in the 1860s, the Ojibway moved to Parry Sound but continued to summer in Port Carling. In 1869, Benjamin Hardcastle Johnston established

256-1061: The township contains the Muskoka Lakes consisting of Lake Muskoka , Lake Rosseau and Lake Joseph , amongst many other smaller lakes. Protected areas in Muskoka Lakes include Hardy Lake Provincial Park and Torrance Barrens Conservation Area. The township contains the communities of Bala , Bala Park, Bardsville, Barlochan, Beaumaris , Baysville, Bear Cave, Beatrice, Bent River, Brackenrig, Cedar Village, Dee Bank, Dixon's Corners, Dudley, Duffy, Echo Beach, Ferndale, Foot's Bay, Glen Orchard, Gregory, Gull Rock, Hekkla, Inverness Lodge, Juddhaven, Mendora, Milford Bay, Minett, Morinus, Mortimers Point, Park Beach, Port Carling , Port Keewaydin, Port Sandfield , Raymond, Redwood, Roderick, Rossclair, Rosseau Falls, Rostrevor, Shannon Hall, Sunset Beach, Thorel House, Tomelin Bluffs, Torrance, Ufford, Ullswater, Valley Green Beach, Walkers Point, Willow Beach, Whiteside, Windermere , Woodington, Woodward Station and Ziska. In

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