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.
13-1772: Oxford Township may refer to: Canada [ edit ] Oxford Township, now part of North Grenville , Ontario Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario United States [ edit ] Illinois [ edit ] Oxford Township, Henry County, Illinois Iowa [ edit ] Oxford Township, Johnson County, Iowa Oxford Township, Jones County, Iowa Kansas [ edit ] Oxford Township, Johnson County, Kansas Oxford Township, Sumner County, Kansas , in Sumner County, Kansas Michigan [ edit ] Oxford Charter Township, Michigan Minnesota [ edit ] Oxford Township, Isanti County, Minnesota New Jersey [ edit ] Oxford Township, New Jersey North Carolina [ edit ] Oxford Township, Granville County, North Carolina , in Granville County, North Carolina Ohio [ edit ] Oxford Township, Butler County, Ohio Oxford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio Oxford Township, Delaware County, Ohio Oxford Township, Erie County, Ohio Oxford Township, Guernsey County, Ohio Oxford Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio Pennsylvania [ edit ] Oxford Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania Oxford Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania South Dakota [ edit ] Oxford Township, Hamlin County, South Dakota , in Hamlin County, South Dakota [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
26-540: 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;
39-475: 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
52-606: 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
65-636: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages North Grenville North Grenville is a township in eastern Ontario , Canada, in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville on the Rideau River . It is located just south of Ottawa in Canada's National Capital Region . It was established on January 1, 1998, through the amalgamation of Oxford-on-Rideau Township, South Gower Township, and
78-630: The Ogdensburg–Prescott International Bridge along Highway 416 . The municipality comprises the communities of Actons Corners , Bedell, Bishops Mills , Burritts Rapids (the oldest community on the Rideau River) , East Oxford, Heckston, Hutchins Corners, Kemptville , McReynolds, Millars Corners, Mountain, Newmanville, Oxford Mills, Oxford Station, Pattersons Corners, Peltons Corners, Sabourins Crossing, Schipaville, Swan Crossing and Van Allens. The administrative offices of
91-648: 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 ,
104-557: 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
117-681: The Town of Kemptville . In 2003, a motion of the municipal council adopted the designation of 'municipality'. The largest community in North Grenville is Kemptville, with a population of 3,911 in the 2016 census, up from 3,620 in the Canada 2011 Census . It is located on the Kemptville Creek (historically South Branch of the Rideau River) approximately 56 km (35 mi) south of Ottawa, sitting midway between suburban Ottawa and
130-782: 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
143-512: The municipality are located in Kemptville. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , North Grenville had a population of 17,964 living in 7,038 of its 7,244 total private dwellings, a change of 9.2% from its 2016 population of 16,451 . With a land area of 351.9 km (135.9 sq mi), it had a population density of 51.0/km (132.2/sq mi) in 2021. Township (Canada) In Eastern Canada ,
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169-401: 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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