List of towns in Ontario

A town is a sub-type of municipalities in the Canadian Province of Ontario. A town can have the municipal status of either a single-tier or lower-tier municipality.

Ontario has 90 towns[1] that had a cumulative population of 1,871,050 and an average population of 20,789 in the 2011 Census.[2] Ontario's largest and smallest towns are Richmond Hill and Latchford with populations of 185,541 and 387 respectively.[2]

History

Under the former Municipal Act, 1990, a town was both an urban and a local municipality.[3] Under this former legislation, a locality with a population of 2,000 or more could have been incorporated as a town by Ontario's Municipal Board upon review of an application from 75 or more residents of the locality.[3] It also enabled the Municipal Board to change the status of a village or township to a town if it had a population of 2,000 upon review of an application from the village or township.[3]

In the transition to the Municipal Act, 2001, these requirements were abandoned and, as at December 31, 2002, every town that:[4]

The current legislation also provides lower and single-tier municipalities with the authority to name themselves as "towns", or other former municipal status types such as "cities", "villages" or "townships", or generically as "municipalities".[5]

Towns in Ontario

See also

References

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  3. 1 2 3 "Municipal Act, R.S.O. 1990, Chapter M.45". Service Ontario. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Municipal Act, S.O. 2001, Chapter 25". Service Ontario. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ "The Municipal Councillor's Guide". Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
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