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.
19-1045: Crosby may refer to: Places [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] Crosby, Ontario, part of the township of Rideau Lakes, Ontario Crosby, Ontario, a neighbourhood in the city of Markham, Ontario England [ edit ] Crosby, Cumbria Crosby, Lincolnshire Crosby, Merseyside Crosby (UK Parliament constituency) Crosby, North Yorkshire Crosby Beach , Merseyside Crosby Garrett , Cumbria Crosby-on-Eden , Cumbria Great Crosby , Merseyside Little Crosby , Merseyside Isle of Man [ edit ] Crosby, Isle of Man United States [ edit ] Crosby, Alabama Crosby, Minnesota Crosby, Mississippi Crosby, North Dakota Crosby Township, Ohio Crosby, Pennsylvania Crosby, Texas Crosby County, Texas Crosby, Washington South Africa [ edit ] Crosby, Gauteng Other uses [ edit ] Crosby (surname) USS Crosby (DD-164) ,
38-695: A Wickes class destroyer Crosby , a fictional location in The Railway Series See also [ edit ] Crosbie (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Crosby . 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=Crosby&oldid=1257604122 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
57-434: A former Canadian National right-of-way, goes through the township, passing near Portland, Elgin, and Chaffey's Lock. The Old Stone Mill National Historic Site is located within the village of Delta. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Rideau Lakes had a population of 10,883 living in 4,696 of its 6,781 total private dwellings, a change of 5.4% from its 2016 population of 10,326 . With
76-484: A land area of 711.81 km (274.83 sq mi), it had a population density of 15.3/km (39.6/sq mi) in 2021. Population trend: Mother tongue: 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
95-556: 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
114-546: Is a double island on the Rideau lakes; it became famous for its great trout fishing. There are three cottages on the island. The Rideau Trail , a 300-kilometre (190 mi) footpath from Kingston to Ottawa, passes through the township. The highest point on the trail is located in the Foley Mountain Conservation Area , which is located within the township. The Cataraqui Trail , a rail trail on
133-525: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rideau Lakes, Ontario Rideau Lakes is a township located within Leeds and Grenville United Counties in Eastern Ontario , Canada . The township was incorporated on 1 January 1998 by amalgamating the former townships of North Crosby, South Crosby, Bastard, South Burgess and South Elmsley with
152-648: 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 ,
171-708: 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
190-619: The Rideau canal to smelters in Pittsburgh and Cleveland during the latter part of the 19th century. The Village of Newboro was incorporated in 1876. A plaque was erected by the Ontario Heritage Foundation commemorating the founding of Chaffey's Lock by Benjamin and Samuel Chaffey, who established mills here in 1820. Samuel Chaffey settling here shortly thereafter. The site included a distillery and saw, grist, carding, and fulling mills by 1827. The mills were flooded by
209-591: The building of the Rideau Canal . A plaque was erected by the Chaffey's Lock and Area Heritage Society commemorating the founders, early builders, and all who have been part of the Chaffey's Lock community. Plaques have been erected by individuals and families on the Memory Wall, at Chaffey's Lock Cemetery. The Queen's University Biological Station is located just southwest of Chaffey's Lock. Trout island
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#1732765702606228-542: The founding of Newboro with the building of the Rideau Canal in 1826–32. Benjamin Tett settled here in 1833. He opened a store and later a post office. The community served as a major construction camp during the building of the Rideau Canal. Newboro was a trade centre for the region's lumbering industry and agriculture. The economic development of the community was enabled by the shipment of iron ore from local mines via
247-530: The hamlet of Chantry. The independent village of Westport is entirely surrounded by Rideau Lakes, but is not part of the township. The town of Smiths Falls is mostly located in Lanark County , while parts of the southern areas of the town is in the township of Rideau Lakes in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville . A plaque was erected by the Ontario Heritage Foundation commemorating
266-432: 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
285-582: 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; 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
304-401: 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
323-734: The township's economy. Rideau Lakes has 500 km (310 mi) of shoreline , excluding the Rideau Waterway. The waterway itself traverses the township, from the towering granite cliffs near Chaffeys Lock to the more gentle and pastoral areas of the Lower Rideau Lake. Rideau Lakes contains many villages and hamlets, including Chaffeys Lock, Chantry, Crosby, Daytown, Delta , Elgin, Forfar, Freeland, Harlem, Jones Falls , Lombardy , Morton, Newboro, Newboyne, Philipsville, Plum Hollow, Portland , Rideau Ferry , and Scotch Point. The township administrative offices are located in
342-412: 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
361-472: The village of Newboro. Rideau Lakes lies in the northwest corner of Leeds and Grenville, and is geographically the largest municipality in the county. Farming , tourism , and service industries form the backbone of the local economy . The many tourist attractions in Rideau Lakes, including historic trails , the stone arch dam at Jones Falls , and the Rideau Canal , are also an important part of
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