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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 ...
The Provincial Agricultural Fair of Canada West was an annual provincial agricultural fair held in various places [1] [2] in Canada West and after 1867 in Ontario. The fair was established in 1846 and sponsored by the Provincial Agricultural Association and the Board of Agriculture for Canada West.
Manvers Township within former Victoria County. The Township of Manvers (area 69,923 acres (283 km 2)) was a municipality in the former Victoria County, now the city of Kawartha Lakes, in the Canadian province of Ontario.
1888–1889 – Melbourne, Victoria – Melbourne Centennial Exhibition [citation needed] 1888–1889 – Melbourne, Victoria – Victorian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition (1888) [13] 1889 – Paris, France – Exposition Universelle (1889) – Eiffel Tower [citation needed] 1889 – Dunedin, New Zealand – New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition ...
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 ) .
Durham County (1792–1973) portions merged with Ontario County to form Durham Regional Municipality. Remaining portions joined Northumberland, Peterborough and Victoria Counties. Grenville County (1792–1850) merged with Leeds County to form Leeds and Grenville United Counties; Kent County (1792–1998) became the single-tier Municipality of ...
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 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 ...