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Victoria County, Ontario
Historical county in Ontario, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The County of Victoria, or Victoria County, was a county in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was formed in 1854 as The United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, and separated from Peterborough in 1863. In 2001, the county was dissolved and reformed as the city of Kawartha Lakes. Though first opened to settlement in 1821, the area that was encompassed by Victoria County has a history of Indian occupation, first by the Hurons.
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County of Canada | |||||||||
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![]() A historic map of Victoria County, published in 1881. | |||||||||
Capital | Lindsay, Ontario | ||||||||
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• Type | Democracy | ||||||||
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• 1863 | Patrick McHugh (first) | ||||||||
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• Separation from the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria | 1863 | ||||||||
• Withdrawal of seven townships to the District of Muskoka | 1868 (detached), 1877 (withdrawn) | ||||||||
• Withdrawal of three townships to the Provisional County of Haliburton | 1874 | ||||||||
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