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Perth County is a county and census division in the Canadian province of Ontario in Southwestern Ontario, 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Toronto. Its population centres are Listowel, Mitchell and Milverton. The City of Stratford and the Town of St. Marys are within the Perth census division, but are administered separately from Perth County ...
This is a list of numbered county roads in Perth County, Ontario. For civic-addressing purposes (such as 911), nearly all rural roads in Perth County are numbered. Roads that run east and west, or southeast and northwest, are numbered "Line 1", "Line 2", and so on to "Line 93".
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A map of Ontario highlighting Perth County: Date: 16 October 2007: Source: Crop and trace of Image:Canada (geolocalisation).svg; trace of Image:Ontario subdivisions.PNG.
The Township of Perth South is a lower-tier municipality in southwestern Ontario, Canada.It is in Perth County at the confluence of the Thames and Avon rivers. The township was created on January 1, 1998, from the amalgamation of the former Township of Blanshard and the former Township of Downie. [2]
The head of County Council is elected from among the council members annually, by a vote at council and is known as the Warden. In 2018-2019, the Perth County Warden is Walter McKenzie from West Perth. [26] Perth East Mayor Rhonda Ehgoetz, Deputy Mayor Hugh McDermid, and Councillor Daryl Herlick serve as Perth East's representatives on County ...
It was joined in 1873 by a second railway, the Stratford and Huron Railway, and Listowel soon became an important shipping point. The arrival of the railway hastened development and Listowel became a Town with a population of 2,054 in 1875 in what is now North Perth in Perth County, Ontario. [4] [5] In 1877, the first elementary school opened. [6]
1849 - The Perth County News was Stratford's first weekly newspaper. 1853 - Perth County was created, with Stratford as its county seat. 1854 - Stratford was incorporated as a village. 1856 - Stratford became a railway town with the arrival of the Grand Trunk and Buffalo-Lake Huron railways. [6] 1859 - Stratford was incorporated as a town.