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Haliburton is a county of Ontario, Canada, known as a tourist and cottage area in Central Ontario for its scenery and for its resident artists. Minden Hills is the county seat. Haliburton County and the village of Haliburton are named after Thomas Chandler Haliburton , author, statesman, and the first chairman of the Canadian Land and ...
A map of Ontario highlighting Haliburton County: Date: 16 October 2007: Source: Crop and trace of Image:Canada (geolocalisation).svg; trace of Image:Ontario ...
Algonquin Highlands is a township located in Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada. It has a population of 2,351. It has a population of 2,351. The northeastern section of the township is included in Algonquin Provincial Park .
Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock (formerly Haliburton—Victoria—Brock and Victoria—Haliburton) is a federal electoral district in central Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968.
Some of southern Ontario's population retreats to central and northern Ontario "cottage country" for recreation and relaxation during the summer. Haliburton Village and Haliburton County derive their name from the author Thomas Chandler Haliburton, who wrote the popular "Sam Slick" stories in the mid-19th century. Haliburton was chairman of the ...
Minden Hospital provides local health needs, with more advance care to the south in Peterborough or to the north-west in Bracebridge, Ontario. Ontario Provincial Police Haliburton Detachment is located in Minden. Fire services is provided by Minden Hills Fire Department and ambulance by Haliburton County Em's, both located along highway 35.
Harcourt Park is located in Harcourt Township [6] near the small community of Harcourt, Ontario [3] in Haliburton County.The park is approximately 240 kilometres (150 mi) northeast of Toronto and approximately 250 kilometres (160 mi) west of Ottawa.
Poor soil led to little settlement in the area and some sections were already overgrown by the 1870s, but the Maynooth-Combermere section proved to be a useful logging route. Today, the section from Bracebridge to Maynooth has mostly been consumed by the forest, though Highway 118 follows adjacent to the old road as far as Haliburton. [35]