Frontenac County is a county and
census division
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of the
Canadian province
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of
Ontario
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. It is located in the
eastern portion of
Southern Ontario
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. The city of
Kingston is in the Frontenac census division, but is separated from the County of Frontenac.
Historical evolution
The county of Frontenac, situated within the
Mecklenburg District, was originally created as an
electoral district
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for the
Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada in 1792 and its original limits were described as being:
Mecklenburg was renamed as the "Midland District" in 1792.
At the beginning of 1800, the County was reorganized as follows:
:* the eastern part of the islands of the county of
Ontario
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were transferred to Frontenac, on the former's dissolution
:* Frontenac was declared to consist solely of the townships of Pittsburg, Kingston, Loughborough, Portland, Hinchbrooke, Bedford and Wolfe Island
:* the remaining
unorganized territory remained part of Midland District
Through the addition of newly surveyed townships, by 1845 the County covered the following territory:
In 1860, the newly surveyed townships of Miller and Canonto were transferred from
Renfrew County
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History Bathurst District
When Carleton County was withdrawn from Bathurst District in 1 ...
In 1998, the County was reorganized, and it now consists of the townships of
North Frontenac,
Central Frontenac
Central Frontenac is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada in the County of Frontenac.
Central Frontenac was created in 1998 through an amalgamation of the Townships of Hinchinbrooke, Kennebec, Olden and Oso.
Communities
There are 28 communiti ...
,
South Frontenac and
Frontenac Islands. The City of
Kingston absorbed
Kingston and
Pittsburgh
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Townships and exists now as a
separated municipality
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.
The county council itself was abolished and replaced by a management unit with limited powers, known as the Frontenac Management Board. The management unit became a county again in 2004.
Education
Children attend schools part of the
Limestone District School Board, based in the City of
Kingston.
Demographics
As a
census division
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in the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Frontenac County had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Historic populations for Frontenac census division:
* Population in 2001: 138,606
* Population in 1996: 136,365
See also
*
List of municipalities in Ontario
Ontario is the Population of Canada by province and territory, most populous provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada with 14,223,942 residents as of Canada 2021 Census, 2021 and is List of Canadian provinces and territories by ...
*
List of Ontario Census Divisions
The Province of Ontario has 51 first-level administrative divisions, which collectively cover the whole province. With two exceptions, their areas match the 49 census divisions Statistics Canada has for Ontario.
The Province has four types of ...
*
Kingston Frontenac Public Library
The Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL) was established in 1998 through the amalgamation of the Kingston Public Library (which began as a 19th-century Mechanics Institute) and the Frontenac County Library, creating a 17-branch system. The K ...
*
K&P Rail Trail
The K&P Trail is a recreational trail that runs along the old Kingston and Pembroke Railway (K&P) bed in Ontario, Canada. The K&P was abandoned by its owner, the Canadian Pacific Railway, between 1962 and 1986, and ran from Kingston to Renfrew. ...
*
List of townships in Ontario
This is a list of townships in the Canadian province of Ontario. Townships are listed by census division.
Northern Ontario Northeastern Ontario Algoma District
Historical/Geographic Townships
*Abbott
*Aberdeen Additional
*Abigo
*Abotossa ...
References
* Rollaston, Brian, ed. County of a Thousand Lakes: The History of the County of Frontenac. Kingston: County of Frontenac, 1982.
* Ross, Alec & John De Visser. Kingston and Frontenac County. Erin ON: Boston Mills Press, 2009.
* Meacham, J.H. Illustrated Historical Atlas of Frontenac, Lennox, and Addington Counties. Toronto, 1878; reprint ed., Belleville: Mika, 1971.
External links
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{{Subdivisions of Ontario
Counties in Ontario