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Leamington (/ ˈ l iː m ɪ ŋ t ə n / LEEM-ing-tən) is a municipality in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. With a population of 29,680 in the Canada 2021 Census , it forms the second largest urban centre in Windsor-Essex County after Windsor, Ontario .
It encompasses a portion of Ontario previously included in the electoral districts of Chatham-Kent—Essex and Essex and Lambton—Kent—Middlesex. [ 2 ] Chatham-Kent—Leamington was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order.
It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. It was created in 1999 from parts of Essex—Kent, Chatham-Kent and Essex South. When the riding was created, it included all of Kent County south of the Thames River, the city of Chatham, the town of Leamington and the Township of Mersea Township. In 2007, the boundaries did not change.
1616 – Date of an early map of New France, entitled La Nouvelle France, which included much of what would become Southern Ontario. The map is attributed to Samuel de Champlain. [6] 1639 Summer – Construction begins on Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, intended as a central headquarters for the French mission in Huronia. [7]
1931 Ontario Road Map, showing the original route of Highway 18 between Windsor and Tilbury. On November 17, 1931, Minister of Highways Leopold Macaulay announced that the province would take over the Front Road and Essex County Road 2 between Windsor and Leamington following calls by towns in southern Essex County.
Following the abandonment of the north of Lake Ontario by Iroquois some French geographers incorrectly place the Iroqouis du Nord and their villages on maps of southern Ontario as late as 1755. This would cause confusion among historians in the future when the Mississauga took possession of the northern shore of Lake Ontario.
This is a list of historic places in Essex County, Ontario, containing heritage sites listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP), all of which are designated as historic places either locally, provincially, territorially, nationally, or by more than one level of government.
The history of Ontario covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands that make up present-day Ontario, the most populous province of Canada as of the early 21st century have been inhabited for millennia by groups of Aboriginal people, with French and British exploration and colonization commencing in the 17th century.