List of township municipalities in Ontario

"Township (Ontario)" redirects here. For the list of all townships in Ontario, including historic ones, see List of townships in Ontario.

A township is a type of municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario. They can have either single-tier (not part of another higher tier government form, like a county) status or lower-tier (part of another higher tier government form, like a county) status.^[1]

Ontario has 200 township municipalities of which 115 are lower-tier municipalities and 85 are single-tier municipalities

Ontario has 200 townships^[1] that had a cumulative population of 990,396 and an average population of 4,952 in the 2011 Census.^[2] Ontario's largest and smallest townships are Centre Wellington and Cockburn Island with populations of 26,693 and 0^{[N 1]} respectively.^[2]

History

Under the former Municipal Act, 1990, a township was a type of local municipality.^[4] Under this former legislation, a locality with a population of 1,000 or more could have been incorporated as a township by Ontario's Municipal Board upon review of an application from 75 or more residents of the locality.^[4] It also provided that a township could include "a union of townships and a municipality composed of two or more townships".^[4]

In the transition to the Municipal Act, 2001, these requirements were abandoned and, as at December 31, 2002, every township that:^[5]

• "existed and formed part of a county, a regional or district municipality or the County of Oxford for municipal purposes" became a lower-tier municipality yet retained its name as a township; and
• "existed and did not form part of a county, a regional or district municipality or the County of Oxford for municipal purposes" became a single-tier municipality yet retained its name as a township.

The current legislation also provides lower and single-tier municipalities with the authority to name themselves as "townships", or other former municipal status types such as "cities", "towns" or "villages", or generically as "municipalities".^[6]

Township municipalities in Ontario

Township[1][2]	Municipal status[1]	Geographic area[1]	Population (2011)[2]	Population (2006)[2]	Change (%)[2]	Area (km2)[2]	Population density[2]
Addington Highlands	Lower-tier	Lennox and Addington	2,532	2,512	0.8	1,329.93	1.9
Adelaide-Metcalfe	Lower-tier	Middlesex	3,028	3,135	−3.4	331.38	9.1
Adjala-Tosorontio	Lower-tier	Simcoe	10,603	10,695	−0.9	372.39	28.5
Admaston/Bromley	Lower-tier	Renfrew	2,844	2,716	4.7	524.6	5.4
Alberton	Single-tier	Rainy River	864	958	−9.8	115.43	7.5
Alfred and Plantagenet	Lower-tier	Prescott and Russell	9,196	8,654	6.3	392.45	23.4
Algonquin Highlands	Lower-tier	Haliburton	2,156	1,976	9.1	1,004.76	2.1
Alnwick/Haldimand	Lower-tier	Northumberland	6,617	6,435	2.8	398.57	16.6
Amaranth	Lower-tier	Dufferin	3,963	3,845	3.1	264.5	15
ArchipelagoThe Archipelago	Single-tier	Parry Sound	566	576	−1.7	606.56	0.9
Armour	Single-tier	Parry Sound	1,372	1,249	9.8	164.44	8.3
Armstrong	Single-tier	Timiskaming	1,216	1,155	5.3	90.33	13.5
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh	Lower-tier	Huron	5,582	5,409	3.2	587.08	9.5
Asphodel-Norwood	Lower-tier	Peterborough	4,041	4,247	−4.9	160.98	25.1
Assiginack	Single-tier	Manitoulin	960	914	5	227.87	4.2
Athens	Lower-tier	Leeds and Grenville	3,118	3,086	1	127.77	24.4
Augusta	Lower-tier	Leeds and Grenville	7,430	7,510	−1.1	314.73	23.6
Baldwin	Single-tier	Sudbury	551	554	−0.5	83.29	6.6
Beckwith	Lower-tier	Lanark	6,986	6,387	9.4	240.51	29
Billings	Single-tier	Manitoulin	506	539	−6.1	209.3	2.4
Black River-Matheson	Single-tier	Cochrane	2,410	2,619	−8	1,163.41	2.1
Blandford-Blenheim	Lower-tier	Oxford	7,359	7,149	2.9	382.28	19.3
Bonfield	Single-tier	Nipissing	2,016	1,981	1.8	208.43	9.7
Bonnechere Valley	Lower-tier	Renfrew	3,763	3,665	2.7	593.19	6.3
Brethour	Single-tier	Timiskaming	129	117	10.3	82.05	1.6
Brock	Lower-tier	Durham	11,341	11,979	−5.3	423.38	26.8
Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan	Lower-tier	Renfrew	1,658	1,497	10.8	705.83	2.3
Burpee and Mills	Single-tier	Manitoulin	308	329	−6.4	218.48	1.4
Carling	Single-tier	Parry Sound	1,248	1,123	11.1	248.56	5
Carlow/Mayo	Lower-tier	Hastings	892	950	−6.1	390.94	2.3
Casey	Single-tier	Timiskaming	374	385	−2.9	80.75	4.6
Cavan-Monaghan	Lower-tier	Peterborough	8,601	8,828	−2.6	306.22	28.1
Central Frontenac	Lower-tier	Frontenac	4,556	4,665	−2.3	1,025.17	4.4
Centre Wellington	Lower-tier	Wellington	26,693	26,049	2.5	407.53	65.5
Chamberlain	Single-tier	Timiskaming	297	322	−7.8	110.22	2.7
Champlain	Lower-tier	Prescott and Russell	8,573	8,683	−1.3	207.24	41.4
Chapleau	Single-tier	Sudbury	2,116	2,354	−10.1	14.27	148.3
Chapple	Single-tier	Rainy River	741	856	−13.4	529.02	1.4
Chatsworth	Lower-tier	Grey	6,437	6,392	0.7	596.18	10.8
Chisholm	Single-tier	Nipissing	1,263	1,318	−4.2	206.79	6.1
Clearview	Lower-tier	Simcoe	13,734	14,088	−2.5	557.44	24.6
Cockburn Island	Single-tier	Manitoulin	0[N 1]	10	−100	171.04	0
Coleman	Single-tier	Timiskaming	597	540	10.6	178.82	3.3
Conmee	Single-tier	Thunder Bay	764	740	3.2	168.81	4.5
Cramahe	Lower-tier	Northumberland	6,073	5,950	2.1	201.98	30.1
Dawn-Euphemia	Lower-tier	Lambton	2,049	2,190	−6.4	445.13	4.6
Dawson	Single-tier	Rainy River	563	620	−9.2	338.35	1.7
Dorion	Single-tier	Thunder Bay	338	379	−10.8	212.12	1.6
Douro-Dummer	Lower-tier	Peterborough	6,805	6,954	−2.1	458.98	14.8
Drummond/North Elmsley	Lower-tier	Lanark	7,487	7,118	5.2	366.03	20.5
Dubreuilville	Single-tier	Algoma	635	773	−17.9	89.57	7.1
Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde	Lower-tier	Haliburton	5,966	5,526	8	1,483.51	4
Ear Falls	Single-tier	Kenora	1,026	1,153	−11	331.03	3.1
East Ferris	Single-tier	Nipissing	4,766[7]	4,228	12.7	155.03	30.7
East Garafraxa	Lower-tier	Dufferin	2,595	2,389	8.6	166.04	15.6
East Hawkesbury	Lower-tier	Prescott and Russell	3,335	3,368	−1	235.18	14.2
East Zorra-Tavistock	Lower-tier	Oxford	6,836	7,008	−2.5	242.3	28.2
Edwardsburgh/Cardinal	Lower-tier	Leeds and Grenville	6,959	6,689	4	312.34	22.3
Elizabethtown-Kitley	Lower-tier	Leeds and Grenville	9,724	10,201	−4.7	557.8	17.4
Emo	Single-tier	Rainy River	1,252	1,305	−4.1	203.54	6.2
Enniskillen	Lower-tier	Lambton	2,930	3,122	−6.1	338.18	8.7
Essa	Lower-tier	Simcoe	18,505	16,901	9.5	280.07	66.1
Evanturel	Single-tier	Timiskaming	452	473	−4.4	88.99	5.1
Faraday	Lower-tier	Hastings	1,468	1,578	−7	217.97	6.7
Fauquier-Strickland	Single-tier	Cochrane	530	568	−6.7	1,013.9	0.5
Front of Yonge	Lower-tier	Leeds and Grenville	2,752[7]	2,803	−4.4	128.47	20.9
Frontenac Islands	Lower-tier	Frontenac	1,864	1,862	0.1	175.04	10.6
Gauthier	Single-tier	Timiskaming	123	133	−7.5	88.59	1.4
Georgian Bay	Lower-tier	Muskoka	2,482[7]	2,340	6.1	546.97	4.5
Georgian Bluffs	Lower-tier	Grey	10,404	10,506	−1	604.36	17.2
Gillies	Single-tier	Thunder Bay	473	544	−13.1	93.02	5.1
Greater Madawaska	Lower-tier	Renfrew	2,485	2,751	−9.7	1,034.33	2.4
Guelph/Eramosa	Lower-tier	Wellington	12,380	12,066	2.6	291.71	42.4
Hamilton	Lower-tier	Northumberland	10,702	10,972	−2.5	256.12	41.8
Harley	Single-tier	Timiskaming	539	551	−2.2	91.73	5.9
Harris	Single-tier	Timiskaming	523	512	2.1	50.17	10.4
Havelock-Belmont-Methuen	Lower-tier	Peterborough	4,523	4,637	−2.5	543.59	8.3
Head, Clara and Maria	Lower-tier	Renfrew	235	228	3.1	728.15	0.3
Hilliard	Single-tier	Timiskaming	204	222	−8.1	91.18	2.2
Hilton	Single-tier	Algoma	261	243	7.4	115.78	2.3
Hornepayne	Single-tier	Algoma	1,050	1,209	−13.2	204.52	5.1
Horton	Lower-tier	Renfrew	2,719	2,803	−3	158.53	17.2
Howick	Lower-tier	Huron	3,856	3,882	−0.7	287.18	13.4
Hudson	Single-tier	Timiskaming	476	455	4.6	90.64	5.3
Huron-Kinloss	Lower-tier	Bruce	6,790	6,515	4.2	440.63	15.4
Ignace	Single-tier	Kenora	1,202	1,431	−16	72.66	16.5
James	Single-tier	Timiskaming	424	414	2.4	86.19	4.9
Jocelyn	Single-tier	Algoma	237	277	−14.4	131.37	1.8
Johnson	Single-tier	Algoma	750	701	7	120.38	6.2
Joly	Single-tier	Parry Sound	284	280	1.4	194.33	1.5
Kerns	Single-tier	Timiskaming	359	325	10.5	90.44	4
Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards	Lower-tier	Renfrew	2,402	2,550	−5.8	395.98	6.1
King	Lower-tier	York	19,899	19,487	2.1	333.3	59.7
La Vallee	Single-tier	Rainy River	988	1,067	−7.4	237.5	4.2
Laird	Single-tier	Algoma	1,057	1,078	−1.9	102.43	10.3
Lake of Bays	Lower-tier	Muskoka	3,506[7]	3,570	−1.8	677.58	5.2
Lake of the Woods	Single-tier	Rainy River	296	323	−8.4	751.95	0.4
Lanark Highlands	Lower-tier	Lanark	5,128	5,180	−1	1,048.19	4.9
Larder Lake	Single-tier	Timiskaming	684	735	−6.9	229.65	3
Laurentian Valley	Lower-tier	Renfrew	9,657	9,265	4.2	552.44	17.5
Leeds and the Thousand Islands	Lower-tier	Leeds and Grenville	9,277	9,435	−1.7	612.51	15.1
Limerick	Lower-tier	Hastings	352	364	−3.3	205.68	1.7
Loyalist	Lower-tier	Lennox and Addington	16,221	15,062	7.7	341.04	47.6
Lucan Biddulph	Lower-tier	Middlesex	4,338	4,187	3.6	169.15	25.6
Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional	Single-tier	Algoma	1,464	1,550	−5.5	163.52	9
Machar	Single-tier	Parry Sound	923	866	6.6	184.62	5
Machin	Single-tier	Kenora	935	978	−4.4	289.84	3.2
Madawaska Valley	Lower-tier	Renfrew	4,282	4,381	−2.3	671.85	6.4
Madoc	Lower-tier	Hastings	2,197	2,069	6.2	277.97	7.9
Malahide	Lower-tier	Elgin	9,146	8,828	3.6	395.08	23.2
Manitouwadge	Single-tier	Thunder Bay	2,105	2,300	−8.5	352.06	6
Mapleton	Lower-tier	Wellington	9,989	9,851	1.4	534.81	18.7
Matachewan	Single-tier	Timiskaming	409[7]	375	9.1	543.63	0.8
Mattawan	Single-tier	Nipissing	162	147	10.2	200.96	0.8
Mattice-Val Côté	Single-tier	Cochrane	686	772	−11.1	414.64	1.7
McDougall	Single-tier	Parry Sound	2,705	2,704	0	268.3	10.1
McGarry	Single-tier	Timiskaming	595	674	−11.7	86.72	6.9
McKellar	Single-tier	Parry Sound	1,144	1,080	5.9	181.12	6.3
McMurrich/Monteith	Single-tier	Parry Sound	779	791	−1.5	278.13	2.8
McNab/Braeside	Lower-tier	Renfrew	7,371	7,222	2.1	255.74	28.8
Melancthon	Lower-tier	Dufferin	2,839	2,895	−1.9	310.96	9.1
Minden Hills	Lower-tier	Haliburton	5,655	5,556	1.8	878.17	6.4
Montague	Lower-tier	Lanark	3,483	3,209	8.5	279.74	12.5
Moonbeam	Single-tier	Cochrane	1,101	1,298	−15.2	235.65	4.7
Morley	Single-tier	Rainy River	474	492	−3.7	375.61	1.3
Mulmur	Lower-tier	Dufferin	3,391	3,318	2.2	286.73	11.8
Muskoka Lakes	Lower-tier	Muskoka	6,707[7]	6,467	3.7	794.48	8.4
Nairn and Hyman	Single-tier	Sudbury	477	493	−3.2	160.94	3
Nipigon	Single-tier	Thunder Bay	1,631	1,752	−6.9	109.14	14.9
Nipissing	Single-tier	Parry Sound	1,704	1,642	3.8	393.6	4.3
North Algona Wilberforce	Lower-tier	Renfrew	2,873	2,840	1.2	378.53	7.6
North Dumfries	Lower-tier	Waterloo	9,334	9,063	3	187.44	49.8
North Dundas	Lower-tier	Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry	11,225	11,095	1.2	503.21	22.3
North Frontenac	Lower-tier	Frontenac	1,842	1,904	−3.3	1,164.73	1.6
North Glengarry	Lower-tier	Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry	10,251	10,635	−3.6	643.69	15.9
North Huron	Lower-tier	Huron	4,884	5,015	−2.6	178.98	27.3
North Kawartha	Lower-tier	Peterborough	2,289	2,342	−2.3	776.04	2.9
North ShoreThe North Shore	Single-tier	Algoma	509	549	−7.3	238.94	2.1
North Stormont	Lower-tier	Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry	6,775	6,769	0.1	515.65	13.1
Norwich	Lower-tier	Oxford	10,721	10,481	2.3	431.28	24.9
O'Connor	Single-tier	Thunder Bay	685	720	−4.9	108.65	6.3
Opasatika	Single-tier	Cochrane	214	280	−23.6	329.98	0.6
Oro-Medonte	Lower-tier	Simcoe	20,078	20,031	0.2	586.9	34.2
Otonabee-South Monaghan	Lower-tier	Peterborough	6,660	6,812	−2.2	347.58	19.2
Papineau-Cameron	Single-tier	Nipissing	978	1,058	−7.6	566.74	1.7
Pelee	Single-tier	Essex	171	287	−40.4	41.79	4.1
Perry	Single-tier	Parry Sound	2,317	2,010	15.3	187.25	12.4
Perth East	Lower-tier	Perth	12,028	11,986	0.4	713.39	16.9
Perth South	Lower-tier	Perth	3,993	4,132	−3.4	393.03	10.2
Pickle Lake	Single-tier	Kenora	425	479	−11.3	255.08	1.7
Plummer Additional	Single-tier	Algoma	650	625	4	221.97	2.9
Prince	Single-tier	Algoma	1,031	971	6.2	85.31	12.1
Puslinch	Lower-tier	Wellington	7,029	6,689	5.1	214.61	32.8
Ramara	Lower-tier	Simcoe	9,275	9,427	−1.6	419.25	22.1
Red Rock	Single-tier	Thunder Bay	942	1,063	−11.4	62.93	15
Rideau Lakes	Lower-tier	Leeds and Grenville	10,207	10,350	−1.4	729.09	14
Russell	Lower-tier	Prescott and Russell	15,247	13,883	9.8	199.06	76.6
Ryerson	Single-tier	Parry Sound	634	686	−7.6	188.07	3.4
Sables-Spanish Rivers	Single-tier	Sudbury	3,075	3,237	−5	815.8	3.8
Schreiber	Single-tier	Thunder Bay	1,126	901	25	36.79	30.6
Scugog	Lower-tier	Durham	21,569	21,439	0.6	474.65	45.4
Seguin	Single-tier	Parry Sound	3,988	4,276	−6.7	595.42	6.7
Selwyn	Lower-tier	Peterborough	16,846	17,027	−1.1	315.64	53.4
Severn	Lower-tier	Simcoe	12,377	12,030	2.9	549.9	22.5
Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls	Single-tier	Kenora	720	672	7.1	1,222.43	0.6
South Algonquin	Single-tier	Nipissing	1,211	1,253	−3.4	872.49	1.4
South Frontenac	Lower-tier	Frontenac	18,113	18,227	−0.6	971.68	18.6
South Glengarry	Lower-tier	Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry	13,162	12,880	2.2	605.3	21.7
South Stormont	Lower-tier	Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry	12,617	12,520	0.8	447.5	28.2
Southgate	Lower-tier	Grey	7,190	7,072	1.7	644.35	11.2
South-West Oxford	Lower-tier	Oxford	7,544	7,589	−0.6	370.48	20.4
Southwold	Lower-tier	Elgin	4,494	4,724	−4.9	301.71	14.9
Springwater	Lower-tier	Simcoe	18,223	17,456	4.4	536.23	34
St. Clair	Lower-tier	Lambton	14,515	14,649	−0.9	619.32	23.4
St. Joseph	Single-tier	Algoma	1,201	1,129	6.4	129.36	9.3
Stirling-Rawdon	Lower-tier	Hastings	4,978	4,906	1.5	282.31	17.6
Stone Mills	Lower-tier	Lennox and Addington	7,560	7,568	−0.1	708.83	10.7
Strathroy-Caradoc	Lower-tier	Middlesex	20,978	19,959	5.1	274.12	76.5
Strong	Single-tier	Parry Sound	1,341	1,327	1.1	159.28	8.4
Tarbutt	Single-tier	Algoma	396	388	2.1	53.14	7.5
Tay	Lower-tier	Simcoe	9,736	9,748	−0.1	139	70
Tay Valley	Lower-tier	Lanark	5,571	5,634	−1.1	549.12	10.1
Tehkummah	Single-tier	Manitoulin	406	382	6.3	132.48	3.1
Terrace Bay	Single-tier	Thunder Bay	1,471	1,625	−9.5	151.04	9.7
Tiny	Lower-tier	Simcoe	11,232	10,754	4.4	336.83	33.3
Tudor and Cashel	Lower-tier	Hastings	586	682	−14.1	445.67	1.3
Tyendinaga	Lower-tier	Hastings	4,150	4,070	2	313	13.3
Uxbridge	Lower-tier	Durham	20,623	19,169	7.6	420.83	49
Val Rita-Harty	Single-tier	Cochrane	817	939	−13	382.71	2.1
Wainfleet	Lower-tier	Niagara	6,356	6,601	−3.7	217.29	29.3
Warwick	Lower-tier	Lambton	3,717	3,945	−5.8	290.2	12.8
Wellesley	Lower-tier	Waterloo	10,713	9,789	9.4	277.79	38.6
Wellington North	Lower-tier	Wellington	11,477	11,175	2.7	526.28	21.8
West Lincoln	Lower-tier	Niagara	13,837	13,167	5.1	387.78	35.7
White River	Single-tier	Algoma	607	841	−27.8	96.94	6.3
Whitewater Region	Lower-tier	Renfrew	6,921	6,631	4.4	537.96	12.9
Wilmot	Lower-tier	Waterloo	19,223	17,097	12.4	263.72	72.9
Wollaston	Lower-tier	Hastings	708	730	−3	220.19	3.2
Woolwich	Lower-tier	Waterloo	23,145	19,658	17.7	326.17	71
Zorra	Lower-tier	Oxford	8,058	8,125	−0.8	528.99	15.2
Total			990,396	974,532	1.6	73,758.34	13.4
Total lower-tier			910,397	892,282	2	52,432.34	17.4
Total single-tier			79,999	82,250	−2.7	21,326	3.8

Former township municipalities

Former township	Change date	Change event	Current status	Remarks
Barrie Island[8]	January 1, 2009	Dissolution	—	Amalgamated into Gordon/Barrie Island
Dack[9]	January 1, 2003	Dissolution	—	Amalgamated into Charlton and Dack
Delhi[10]	January 1, 2001	Dissolution	—	Amalgamated into Norfolk County
Dymond[9]	January 1, 2004	Dissolution	—	Amalgamated into Temiskaming Shores
Glanbrook[11]	January 1, 2001	Dissolution	—	Amalgamated into Hamilton
Gordon[8]	January 1, 2009	Dissolution	—	Amalgamated into Gordon/Barrie Island
Goulbourn[12]	January 1, 2001	Dissolution	—	Amalgamated into Ottawa
Marlborough	1974			Amalgamated into Rideau Township
Marmora and Lake[9]	March 14, 2001	Status change	Municipality
Michipicoten[8]	June 5, 2007	Status and name change	Municipality	Name changed to Wawa
Norfolk[10]	January 1, 2001	Dissolution	—	Amalgamated into Norfolk County
North Gower	1974	Dissolution		Amalgamated into Rideau Township
North Grenville[9]	July 14, 2003	Status change	Municipality
North Himsworth[9]	June 2, 2002	Status and name change	Municipality	Named changed to Callander
Osgoode[12]	January 1, 2001	Dissolution	—	Amalgamated into Ottawa
Rideau[12]	January 1, 2001	Dissolution	—	Amalgamated into Ottawa
Shedden[9]	October 1, 2004	Status and name change	Town	Name changed to Spanish
Shuniah[13]	January 2, 2011	Status change	Municipality
West Carleton[12]	January 1, 2001	Dissolution	—	Amalgamated into Ottawa
West Grey[9]	December 2, 2002	Status change	Municipality

See also

• List of cities in Ontario
• List of communities in Ontario
• List of municipalities in Ontario
• List of towns in Ontario
• List of townships in Ontario (includes historical townships)
• List of villages in Ontario

Notes

1. Actual population may not be 0 as Statistics Canada, to protect privacy, rounds population to the nearest 5 in the event a geographic area's actual population is less than 15.^[3]