Lennox and Addington County
Template:Infobox settlement Lennox and Addington County is a county and census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is Greater Napanee. It is located in the subregion of Southern Ontario named Eastern Ontario.
Around the middle of the 19th century, the Addington Road was built by the province to encourage settlement in the northern sections of the county.
Historical evolution
The two original counties of Lennox and Addington, respectively named after Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, were organized for electoral purposes in 1792,<ref>Proclamation of July 16, 1792</ref> and were situated within the Mecklenburg District. Mecklenburg was renamed as the "Midland District" in 1792.<ref>Template:Cite canlaw</ref>
In 1798, the Parliament of Upper Canada passed legislation to provide, that, at the beginning of 1800:
In 1821, the newly surveyed township of Kaladar was added to the counties.<ref>Template:Cite canlaw</ref>
In 1845, the counties regained their separate identities, but still remained united for electoral purposes.<ref>Template:Cite canlaw</ref> The newly surveyed township of Anglesea was added to Addington at that time.
Fredericksburgh Township had been settled in 1784, and officially separated into North Fredericksburgh and South Fredericksburgh in 1857.<ref>North and South Fredericksburgh – Embrace the history of this charming area. Naturally L & A. Accessed 21 May 2023.</ref>
At the beginning of 1850, Midland District was abolished, and the United Counties of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington replaced it for municipal and judicial purposes.<ref>Template:Cite canlaw</ref> In 1860, Lennox and Addington were formally amalgamated as the "County of Lennox and Addington", and declared to be the junior county in the United Counties.<ref>Template:Cite canlaw</ref> The townships of Effingham, Abinger, Ashby and Denbigh were added to the County at the same time.<ref>1860 Act, s. 3</ref>
Upon the dissolution of the United Counties at the beginning of 1865, the County became separate for all purposes.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
In the late 1990s, the County's municipalities were reorganized to form the town of Greater Napanee and the townships of Addington Highlands, Loyalist, and Stone Mills.<ref>Template:Cite map</ref>
Demographics
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lennox and Addington County had a population of Template:Val living in Template:Val of its Template:Val total private dwellings, a change of Template:Percentage from its 2016 population of Template:Val. With a land area of Template:Convert, it had a population density of Template:Pop density in 2021.<ref name="sc2021"/> Template:Canada census
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Notable inhabitants
- Charles Jones, composer
- Terence Dickinson, awards-winning astronomy author and expert in astrophotography
- Avril Lavigne, musician
- Daniel Woolf, historian and former principal of Queen’s University
See also
- List of municipalities in Ontario
- List of Ontario Census Divisions
- List of townships in Ontario
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References
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