Home District
Home District | |
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Former District in Upper Canada | |
 Map of Upper Canada Identifying its districts, counties and townships (1818) | |
| Coordinates: 44°00′N 79°30′W / 44°N 79.5°W | |
| Established | 1788 |
| Dissolved | 1849 |
The Home District was one of four districts of the Province of Quebec created in 1788 in the western reaches of the Montreal District and detached in 1791 to create the new colony of Upper Canada. It was abolished with the adoption of the county system in 1849.
Territorial evolution
Originally established as Nassau District in 1788,
In 1798, the
| Northumberland County | Durham County | York County | Simcoe County
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The townships of
together with the peninsula of Newcastle |
The townships of
with all the tract of land ... which lies to the southward of the small lakes above the Rice Lake, and the communication between them and the communication between the eastern boundary of the township of Hope, and the western boundary of the township of Darlington, produced north fifteen degrees west, until they intersect either of the said lakes, or the communication between them... |
East Riding |
The townships of
and the tract of land ... lying between the County Durham and the Lake Simcoe... |
... Burlington Bay ) till it intersects the northern limits of the Province...
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| West Riding |
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Reductions and abolition
The District was reduced in size in several steps over the coming years.
The 1798 Act had provided that counties of
In 1816, the following parts of the District were detached to form Halton County in the newly created Gore District:
...the townships of Trafalgar, Nelson, Flamborough ..., Beverly, and blocks number one, two, three and four, on the Grand river, with the reserved lands in the rear of the townships of Blandford and Blenheim...[8]
In 1837,
In 1849, the Home District was dissolved and replaced for municipal purposes by York County,[10] which was reorganized later that year to form the United Counties of York, Ontario and Peel.[11]
Further reading
- Armstrong, Frederick Henry (1985). Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology. Dundurn historical document series, no. 3. Toronto: Dundurn Press. OCLC 20212.
- "Early Districts and Counties 1788-1899". Archives of Ontario. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
References
- ^ Proclamation of July 24, 1788
- ^ An act for building a Gaol and Court-House within every District of this Province, and for altering the Names of the said Districts, S.U.C. 1792, c. 8, s. 4
- ^ Proclamation of July 24, 1788
- ^ An act for the better division of this province, S.U.C. 1798, c. 5, s. 19-24
- ^ "Beausoleil First Nation".
- ^ 1798 Act, s. 25
- ^ An Act to provide for the Administration of Justice in the District of Newcastle, S.U.C. 1802, c. 2
- ^ An Act to erect and form a new district out of certain parts of the Home and Niagara Districts, to be called the district of Gore, S.U.C. 56 Geo. III, c. 19, s. 12
- ^ An Act to authorize the Erection of the County of Simcoe into a separate District, by the name of the District of Simcoe, S.U.C. 1837, c. 32
- ^ An Act for abolishing the Territorial Division of Upper-Canada into Districts, and for providing temporary Unions of Counties for Judicial and other purposes, and for the future dissolutions of such Unions, as the increase of wealth and population may require, S.Prov.C. 1849, c. 78, Sch. B
- ^ An Act to make certain alterations in the Territorial Divisions of Upper Canada, S.C. 1851, c. 5, Sch. A, par. 21-23; Sch. B
