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North Algona Wilberforce is a township municipality in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] It has a population of 3,111. The township was formed in 1999 [ 2 ] when the North Algona and Wilberforce townships were amalgamated.
Wilberforce is one of the original settlements established as a township by Lachlan Macquarie, colonial governor of New South Wales 1810–21.It is known locally as "Macquarie Town", [2] a title given to townships established by Governor Macquarie on 6 December 1810 [3] in and around the Sydney metropolitan area.
Wilberforce is the only one of the five towns sited on the inland side of the river. The river frontage along Wilberforce Reach, close to the future town, had been fully occupied by the end of 1794 and the area along the north-eastern part of York Reach was being farmed by 1795.
The Charles Young House is located in a rural setting southwest of Wilberforce, on the north side of US 42 between Clifton and Stevenson Roads. The house is an eclectically styled 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick building, with a gabled roof that has deeply overhanging eaves. A T-shaped porch extends across the middle three bays of the five-bay front ...
Effective January 1, 1850, Bathurst District was abolished, and the "United Counties of Lanark and Renfrew" replaced it for municipal and judicial purposes. [4] The counties remained united for electoral purposes in the Parliament of the Province of Canada, referred to as the County of Lanark, [5] until Renfrew gained its own seat in 1853.
Wilberforce is located in central Greene County and is bordered to the southwest by the city of Xenia, the county seat. Wilberforce is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. U.S. Route 42 passes through the community, leading southwest 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to the center of Xenia and northeast 4.5 miles (7.2 km) to Cedarville. Downtown ...
Lake Doré is a freshwater lake in the township of North Algona-Wilberforce, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada, about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north of the community of Eganville in the neighbouring township of Bonnechere Valley.
Wilberforce Award, given by Ratanak International to people who fight human trafficking The Wilberforce Society , an independent, non-partisan, student think tank at Cambridge University William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 , a federal statute by the U.S. Congress