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The County of Victoria, or Victoria County, was a county in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was formed in 1854 as The United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, and separated from Peterborough in 1863. In 2001, the county was dissolved and reformed as the city of Kawartha Lakes. While British settlement began in 1821, the area that was ...
Effective January 1, 1974, an extensive re-organization of municipal administrative divisions took place. Durham County was separated from Northumberland County and merged with most of the adjacent Ontario County to form the Regional Municipality of Durham. As part of this process Manvers Township was transferred to the County of Victoria.
The united Townships of Laxton, Digby and Longford were a municipality in the northern part of what is now Kawartha Lakes in the Canadian province of Ontario. The former Township of Longford, was surveyed in 1861 by Brookes Wright Gossage, as one of ten townships sold to the Canadian Land and Emigration Company. Longford was the only one of the ...
Leslie M. Frost, Premier of Ontario from 1949 to 1961. First elected in 1937 to the Ontario legislature representing Victoria-Haliburton, he was known as "The Laird of Lindsay." He combined small town values with progressive policies to lead the province through the economic boom of the 1950s. Pearl Hart, outlaw
Victoria County, New Brunswick; Municipality of the County of Victoria and the eponymous historical county and census division; Victoria County, Ontario, amalgamated in 2001 to a single tier municipality named Kawartha Lakes; In Trinidad and Tobago: Victoria County, Trinidad and Tobago; in the United States: Victoria County, Texas
Norfolk County (1792–1974) was merged into the Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk for many years, but this was divided again with some minor adjustments to the old lines in 2001; it is now a single-tier municipality, not an official county; Ontario County a short-lived first county with this name existed from 1792 to 1800, and was ...
Verulam Township within former Victoria County. The Township of Verulam was a rural municipality within the former Victoria County, now the city of Kawartha Lakes.It was bounded on the north by the geographic township of Somerville, the south by the geographic township of Emily, the west by the geographic township of Fenelon, and the east by the County of Peterborough.
The Victoria Railway was a 55.52-mile (89.35 km) long [1] Canadian railway that operated in Central Ontario. Construction under Chief Engineer James Ross began in 1874 from Lindsay, Ontario , with authority to build through Victoria County to Haliburton, Ontario , to which it opened on November 24, 1878 ( 1878-11-24 ) .