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Essex is a town with a population of 21,216 in Essex County in southwestern Ontario, Canada, whose municipal borders extend to Lake Erie. Essex is also the name of the largest community within the municipality.
A map of Ontario highlighting Essex County: Date: 16 October 2007: Source: Crop and trace of Image:Canada (geolocalisation).svg; trace of Image:Ontario subdivisions.PNG.
Map showing the townships of Essex County in 1881. From the Illustrated atlas of the Dominion of Canada. By the late 19th century Essex County had seen fur trading and logging, land clearing and farming, road building and railway development, saw mills and gristmills, railway stations and water ports.
The numbered roads in Essex County account for 1,503 lane kilometres (933.9 mi) of roads in the Canadian province of Ontario.These roads [note 1] include King's Highways that are signed and maintained by the province, as well as county roads under the jurisdiction of the Essex County xxx.
Essex (formerly known as Essex—Windsor) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1882 and since 1968. Geography [ edit ]
Colchester is a community and unincorporated place in Southwestern Ontario, [1] the southernmost settlement on mainland Canada, and the southernmost point with the exception of Point Pelee National Park. It is located on the north shore of Lake Erie, approximately 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of the town of Harrow.
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.
Dalhousie St. between Murray and Richmond Sts. Main Street, Amherstburg, 1865. Amherstburg is a town near the mouth of the Detroit River in Essex County, Ontario, Canada.In 1796, Fort Malden was established here, stimulating growth in the settlement.