List of Ontario municipalities

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There are currently 445 municipalities in Ontario.

These municipalities are divided into different structural tiers. A "local municipality" may be called a city, a town, a township, a municipality or a village and can also be referred to as a "lower tier" municipality. Local or lower tier municipalities are also part of a higher level of municipal or "upper tier" government such as a county, region or district. A county or regional government is a federation of the local municipalities within its boundaries. An example of an "upper tier" municipality is the Region of Waterloo, which is composed of 7 local municipalities.

A "single tier" municipality is a municipality where there is only one level of municipal government. There are three general types of single-tier municipalities in Ontario. The first are the amalgamated municipalities, which are generally counties or regional municipalities (or parts thereof) which have been amagamated into a single administrative unit. Those are similar to a consolidated city-county in the United States. Examples of this type of single tier municipality are Toronto and Kawartha Lakes. The second type consists of a municipality which has been "carved out" of the surrounding county's jurisdiction. Examples of this type are Peterborough and Windsor. The final type of single tier municipality is one which was never traditionally part of a dual tier system of government, namely the municipalities of northern Ontario. These municipalities are found in districts, however, districts are for census purposes only. Examples of this type are North Bay and Timmins.

Contents 1 Single tier municipalities 1.1 By amalgamation of municipalities 1.2 By separation from the surrounding municipality 1.3 Found within districts 2 Dual tier municipalities 2.1 Regional municipalities 2.2 Counties

[edit] Single tier municipalities

[edit] By amalgamation of municipalities

• Brant County (seat in Burford)
• Chatham-Kent, formerly Kent County (seat in Chatham)
• Greater Sudbury, formerly the Regional Municipality of Sudbury
• Haldimand County, formerly half of the Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk (seat in Cayuga)
• Hamilton, formerly the Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Municipality
• Kawartha Lakes, formerly Victoria County (seat in Lindsay)
• Norfolk County, formerly half of the Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk (seat in Simcoe)
• Ottawa, formerly the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton
• Prince Edward County (seat in Picton)
• Toronto, formerly Metropolitan Toronto

[edit] By separation from the surrounding municipality

• Barrie - Simcoe County
• Belleville - Hastings County
• Brantford - Brant County
• Brockville - Leeds & Grenville County
• Gananoque - Leeds & Grenville County
• Guelph - Wellington County
• Kingston - Frontenac County
• London - Middlesex County
• Orillia - Simcoe County
• Pembroke - Renfrew County
• Peterborough - Peterborough County
• Prescott - Leeds & Grenville County
• Quinte West - Hastings County
• Smiths Falls - Lanark County
• St. Marys - Perth County
• St. Thomas - Elgin County
• Stratford - Perth County
• Windsor - Essex County

[edit] Found within districts

Algoma District (Sault Ste. Marie) Blind River Bruce Mines Dubreuilville Elliot Lake Hilton Beach Hilton Hornepayne Huron Shores Jocelyn Johnson Laird Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional Michipicoten Plummer Additional Prince Sault Ste. Marie Spanish St. Joseph Tarbutt and Tarbutt Additional The North Shore Thessalon White River Cochrane District (Cochrane) Black River-Matheson Cochrane Fauquier-Strickland Hearst Iroquois Falls Kapuskasing Mattice-Val Côté Moonbeam Moosonee Opasatika Smooth Rock Falls Timmins Val Rita-Harty Kenora District (Kenora) Dryden Ear Falls Ignace Kenora Machin Pickle Lake Red Lake Sioux Lookout Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls

Manitoulin District (Gore Bay) Assiginack Barrie Island Billings Burpee and Mills Central Manitoulin Cockburn Island Gordon Gore Bay Northeastern Manitoulin and The Islands Tehkummah Nipissing District (North Bay) Bonfield Calvin Chisholm East Ferris Mattawa Mattawan North Bay Papineau-Cameron South Algonquin Temagami West Nipissing Parry Sound District (Parry Sound) Armour Burk's Falls Callander Carling Joly Kearney Machar Magnetawan McDougall McKellar McMurrich/Monteith Nipissing Parry Sound Perry Powassan Ryerson Seguin South River Strong Sundridge The Archipelago Whitestone Rainy River District (Fort Frances) Alberton Atikokan Chapple Dawson Emo Fort Frances La Vallee Lake of the Woods Morley Rainy River

Sudbury District (Espanola) Baldwin Chapleau Espanola French River Killarney Markstay-Warren Nairn and Hyman Sables-Spanish Rivers St. Charles Thunder Bay District (Thunder Bay) Conmee Dorion Gillies Greenstone Manitouwadge Marathon Neebing Nipigon O'Connor Oliver Paipoonge Red Rock Schreiber Shuniah Terrace Bay Thunder Bay Timiskaming District (Haileybury) Armstrong Brethour Casey Chamberlain Charlton and Dack Cobalt Coleman Englehart Evanturel Gauthier Harley Harris Hilliard Hudson James Kerns Kirkland Lake Larder Lake Latchford Matachewan McGarry Temiskaming Shores Thornloe

[edit] Dual tier municipalities

[edit] Regional municipalities

Durham (Whitby) Ajax Brock Clarington Oshawa Pickering Scugog Uxbridge Whitby Halton (Milton) Burlington Halton Hills Milton Oakville

Muskoka District (Bracebridge) Bracebridge Georgian Bay Gravenhurst Huntsville Lake of Bays Muskoka Lakes Niagara (Thorold) Fort Erie Grimsby Lincoln Niagara-on-the-Lake Niagara Falls Pelham Port Colborne St. Catharines Thorold Wainfleet Welland West Lincoln

Oxford County (Woodstock) Blandford-Blenheim East Zorra-Tavistock Ingersoll Norwich South-West Oxford Tillsonburg Woodstock Zorra Peel (Brampton) Brampton Caledon Mississauga

Waterloo (Kitchener) Cambridge Kitchener North Dumfries Waterloo Wellesley Wilmot Woolwich York (Newmarket) Aurora East Gwillimbury Georgina King Markham Newmarket Richmond Hill Vaughan Whitchurch-Stouffville

[edit] Counties

Bruce County (Walkerton) Arran-Elderslie Brockton Huron-Kinloss Kincardine Northern Bruce Peninsula Saugeen Shores South Bruce Peninsula South Bruce Dufferin (Orangeville) Amaranth East Garafraxa East Luther Grand Valley Melancthon Mono Mulmur Orangeville Shelburne Elgin County (St. Thomas) Aylmer Bayham Central Elgin Dutton/Dunwich Malahide Southwold West Elgin Essex County (Windsor) Amherstburg Essex Kingsville Lakeshore LaSalle Leamington Pelee Tecumseh Frontenac (Kingston) Central Frontenac Frontenac Islands North Frontenac South Frontenac Grey County (Owen Sound) Chatsworth Georgian Bluffs Grey Highlands Hanover Meaford Owen Sound Southgate The Blue Mountains West Grey Haliburton County (Minden) Algonquin Highlands Dysart et al Highlands East Minden Hills

Hastings County (Belleville) Bancroft Carlow/Mayo Centre Hastings Deseronto Faraday Hastings Highlands Limerick Madoc Marmora and Lake Stirling-Rawdon Tudor & Cashel Tweed Tyendinaga Wollaston Huron County (Goderich) Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Bluewater Central Huron Goderich Howick Huron East Morris-Turnberry North Huron South Huron Lambton County (Sarnia) Brooke-Alvinston Dawn-Euphemia Enniskillen Lambton Shores Oil Springs Petrolia Plympton-Wyoming Point Edward Sarnia St. Clair Warwick Lanark County (Perth) Beckwith Carleton Place Drummond/North Elmsley Lanark Highlands Mississippi Mills Montague Perth Tay Valley Leeds and Grenville United Counties (Brockville) Athens Augusta Edwardsburgh/Cardinal Elizabethtown - Kitley Front of Yonge Leeds & the Thousand Islands Merrickville-Wolford North Grenville Rideau Lakes Westport

Lennox and Addington County (Greater Napanee) Addington Highlands Greater Napanee Loyalist Stone Mills Middlesex County (London) Adelaide-Metcalfe Lucan-Biddulph Middlesex Centre Newbury North Middlesex Southwest Middlesex Strathroy-Caradoc Thames Centre Northumberland County (Cobourg) Alnwick/Haldimand Brighton Cobourg Cramahe Hamilton Port Hope Trent Hills Perth County (Stratford) North Perth Perth East Perth South West Perth Peterborough County (Peterborough) Asphodel-Norwood Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan Douro-Dummer Galway-Cavendish-Harvey Havelock-Belmont-Methuen North Kawartha Otonabee-South Monaghan Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield Prescott and Russell United Counties (L'Orignal) Alfred and Plantagenet Casselman Champlain Clarence-Rockland East Hawkesbury Hawkesbury Russell The Nation

Renfrew County (Pembroke) Admaston/Bromley Arnprior Bonnechere Valley Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan Deep River Greater Madawaska Head, Clara and Maria Horton Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards Laurentian Hills Laurentian Valley Madawaska Valley McNab/Braeside North Algona-Wilberforce Petawawa Renfrew Whitewater Region Simcoe County (Barrie) Adjala-Tosorontio Bradford West Gwillimbury Clearview Collingwood Essa Innisfil Midland New Tecumseth Oro-Medonte Penetanguishene Ramara Severn Springwater Tay Tiny Wasaga Beach Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties (Cornwall) Cornwall North Dundas North Glengarry North Stormont South Dundas South Glengarry South Stormont Wellington County (Guelph) Centre Wellington Erin Guelph/Eramosa Puslinch Mapleton Minto Wellington North