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Counties have fewer responsibilities than regions, as the lower-tier municipalities (cities, towns, villages, townships) within the counties typically provide the majority of municipal services to their residents. The responsibilities of county governments are generally limited to the following: maintenance and construction of rural arterial ...
Location of Ontario in Canada Municipalities account for 17% of Ontario's total land area. Unincorporated areas encompass the remaining 83%. Ontario is the most populous province in Canada with 14,223,942 residents as of 2021 and is third-largest in land area [a] at 892,412 km 2 (344,562 sq mi). [2]
Municipalities in Wellington County, Ontario (2 C, 6 P) Y. Municipalities in the Regional Municipality of York (9 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 2 October 2020 ...
A local services board (LSB) is an organization in the Canadian province of Ontario that is contracted by the Government of Ontario to provide municipal-level services in a community that is not part of an incorporated municipality. Most local services boards are elected by residents of the communities they serve.
As an "upper tier" municipality, the County of Simcoe is responsible for municipal services which include social housing, land ambulance and emergency planning, environmental services (solid waste management), a County road system, Ontario Works, children's services, homes for the aged, a library co-operative, museum, archives, County forest ...
This category links articles related to counties, regions, districts and single tier municipalities in the Canadian province of Ontario. See also Census divisions of Ontario . By province
In Ontario, regional municipalities always contain lower-tier municipalities within them and were created to provide common services to mixed urban and rural divisions in the way that counties typically provide common services to fully rural municipalities (this paradoxically gives many of the largest urban areas in the province a subtle semi ...
The first meeting of an enduring municipal association was held in Hamilton on September 6, 1899. The name "Ontario Municipal Association" was chosen, and it was agreed that there would be annual meetings, or "oftener if need be, upon the call of the executive committee", so that both appointed and elected representatives of municipalities could discuss common concerns.