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.
19-529: Castleton may refer to: Places [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] Castleton, Ontario Jamaica [ edit ] Castleton Gardens , a botanical garden near Kingston United Kingdom [ edit ] England [ edit ] Castleton, Derbyshire Castleton, Dorset Castleton, Greater Manchester Castleton, North Yorkshire Scotland [ edit ] Castleton, Scottish Borders (Roxburghshire) Castleton, Angus ,
38-533: A ghost town Castleton Tower , Moab, Utah Castleton, Vermont Castleton (village), Vermont , in the town of Castleton Castleton University Castleton, Virginia Surname [ edit ] Roy Castleton Gavin Castleton Castleton baronets , a title in the Baronetage of England Other [ edit ] Castleton station (disambiguation) , stations of
57-556: 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
76-516: A number of communities, including the following communities such as Castleton , Colborne , Dundonald , East Colborne, Edville, Greenleys Corners, Griffis Corners, Loughbreeze, Morganston , Purdy Corners, Salem , Shiloh, Tubbs Corners, Victoria Park; Banford Station , Browns Corners , Ogden Point , Spencer Point , Victoria Beach Originally named Keeler's Creek, Colborne ( 44°00′20″N 77°53′20″W / 44.00556°N 77.88889°W / 44.00556; -77.88889 )
95-771: A village Wales [ edit ] Castleton, Newport United States [ edit ] Castleton, Indiana , a neighborhood (formerly a separate small town) in Indianapolis Castleton Square , a large mall in Castleton, Indiana Castleton, Kansas Castleton, Maryland Castleton Township, Michigan Castleton, Staten Island , in New York City Castleton-on-Hudson, New York , in Rensselaer County Castleton, Utah ,
114-615: Is a rural township located in Northumberland County in southern Ontario , Canada . It is situated just off Ontario Highway 401 approximately 140 km East of Toronto . It was named for Hector Theophilus de Cramahé , who was Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec . The township's seat and largest town is Colborne. Joseph Keeler opened a store on the site of present-day Colborne about 1819. A community began to grow as other small businessmen followed suit. With
133-400: Is the largest and main population centre of the township. It was named after Sir John Colborne , Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, by Joseph Abbott Keeler in 1829. Colborne was incorporated as a village in 1858 with a population of approximately 700 people. In 2001, Colborne and Cramahe Township were amalgamated as part of municipal restructuring to form an expanded Township of Cramahe. At
152-525: The Canada 2011 Census : 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 a subdivision of counties and as a means of attracting settlers to the colony. In Prince Edward Island,
171-648: 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 ,
190-708: 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
209-426: The apple, a restaurant and other amenities on the premises. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Cramahe had a population of 6,509 living in 2,603 of its 2,772 total private dwellings, a change of 2.4% from its 2016 population of 6,355 . With a land area of 202.22 km (78.08 sq mi), it had a population density of 32.2/km (83.4/sq mi) in 2021. According to
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#1732772060785228-455: 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
247-469: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castleton&oldid=1186186831 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Castleton, Ontario Cramahe
266-541: The name Castleton China, a line of fine china and tableware produced by Shenango China, based in New Castle, Pennsylvania See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Castleton All pages with titles containing Castleton Castle town Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Castleton . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
285-462: The opening of harbour facilities in the 1840s and the arrival of the railway in 1840, Colborne became an important service centre for the region. Cramahe was incorporated as a township in 1850. In 1858, the Village of Colborne seceded from the municipality as a separate township. In 2001, both municipalities were reamalgamated to form an expanded Township of Cramahe. The township of Cramahe comprises
304-432: 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
323-526: The time of dissolution, Colborne Village had a population of 2,040 over an area of 5.2 square kilometres (2.0 sq mi). Colborne is the home of the Big Apple , a tourist attraction located along Ontario Highway 401 . With a height of 10.7 metres (35 ft) and diameter of 11.6 metres (38 ft), the Big Apple is billed as the largest apple in the world. There is an observation deck on top of
342-401: 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
361-412: 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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