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Horton, Ontario

Field	Value
name	Horton
official_name	Township of Horton
settlement_type	Township (lower-tier)
image_skyline	Horton ON.jpg
image_caption	Municipal building
pushpin_map	CAN ON Renfrew#Canada Southern Ontario
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Canada
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Ontario
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Renfrew
leader_title	Mayor
leader_title1	Governing body
leader_title2	MP
leader_title3	MPP
leader_name	Daina Proctor
leader_name1	Horton Council
leader_name2	Cheryl Gallant
leader_name3	Billy Denault
established_title	Incorporated
established_date	1850
area_footnotes
area_land_km2	158.02
population_as_of	2021
population_total	3182
population_footnotes
population_density_km2	20.1
timezone	EST
utc_offset	-5
timezone_DST	EDT
utc_offset_DST	-4
coordinates
website
postal_code_type	Postal code FSA
area_codes	613, 343

Horton is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada, at the confluence of the Bonnechere River and the Ottawa River in Renfrew County. The Town of Renfrew was originally part of Horton Township.

Communities

The township comprises the communities of Castleford, Castleford Station, Cotieville, Fergusons Beach, Goshen, Lochwinnoch (partially), Mayhew and Thompson Hill.

Castleford

In the 1820s, Lt. Christopher James Bell settled his land grant and named the area Castleford after his birthplace in West Yorkshire, England. A post office opened at Castleford in 1832, but the town was renamed Warnock in 1889 when the Castleford designation was given to the CPR station at Castleford Station. In 1891 the community name reverted to Castleford. The town of Castleford is the first of five chutes along the Bonnechere River. The others being Renfrew, Douglas, Fourth Chute and Eganville. The chutes were used to float timber past rapids and waterfalls.

Castleford Station

In 1889 the Castleford designation was also given to the CPR station at Castleford Station. Both communities were named after Castleford in West Yorkshire, England.

Fergusons Beach

Goshen

Goshen is a former railway stop on a now abandoned line, probably named for the Land of Goshen, the Hebrew name of an area in the Nile delta in Ancient Egypt.

Lochwinnoch

The community of Lochwinnoch was named for the town of Lochwinnoch in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Thompson Hill

History

In 1826, the township opened for settlement, and by 1830, it had a population of 21. It was named after Robert Wilmot-Horton, a British member of Parliament who advocated immigration to Canada, and incorporated as a township municipality in 1850.

In 1858, the township lost part of its territory when the village of Renfrewville (renamed to Renfrew in 1895) was incorporated to form a separate village municipality.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Horton had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 158.02 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

| 1921 |1259 | 1931 |1243 | 1941 |1148 | 1951 |1362 | 1956 |1427 | 1961 |1610 | 1966 |1620 | 1971 |1706 | 1976 |1931 | 1981 |2017 | 1986 |2224 | 1991 |2426 | 1996 |2515 | 2001 |2567 | 2006 |2803 | 2011 |2719 | 2016 |2887 | 2021 |3182

Mother tongue (2021):

English as first language: 94.3 %
French as first language: 2.8 %
English and French as first languages: 0.6 %
Other as first language: 1.9 %

Former attraction

Storyland, closed 2011

References

"Horton Township". Heritage Property INdex.
(18 December 1985). "History of Horton Township in word".
"Mayor's Welcome". Horton Township.
"History of Renfrew". Town of Renfrew.
{{SCref. (2021)
(July 1973). "1971 Census of Canada - Population Census Subdivisions (Historical)". Statistics Canada.

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