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The original Brock Township was surveyed in 1817 as part of York County and the first meetings were held in 1833. The township was named for Major General Sir Isaac Brock (1769–1812) whose estate received free land here for his service in the War of 1812. William Bagshaw became Brock's first Postmaster and Justice of the Peace in 1819 when he ...
Thorah Township is a former municipality that today is a geographic township in Brock Township, in Central Ontario, Canada. [1] History.
The Regional Municipality of Durham (/ ˈ d ʊər ə m /), informally referred to as Durham Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada.Located east of Toronto and the Regional Municipality of York, it forms the east end of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is part of the Golden Horseshoe region.
In 2023, the Township of Brock in the Regional Municipality of Durham was removed from the riding and placed in the new riding of York—Durham, and the County of Peterborough Townships of Trent Lakes and North Kawartha were added. As a consequence, the name of the electoral district changed to "Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes".
Cannington separated from Brock Township in 1878 when it was incorporated as a Village. When Durham Region was created in 1974, Cannington was amalgamated with the original Brock Township, Thorah Township and the Village of Beaverton to create the newly expanded Township of Brock. In 1987 there was a fire that destroyed dozens of homes through ...
The Brock Citizen is a weekly, community newspaper in Cannington, Ontario, Canada, that was established in 1996 combining the Beaverton Express, the Cannington Gleamer and Sunderland Sun newspapers. It is one of three newspapers in the Kawartha Division of Metroland Media Group , a subsidiary of Torstar which publishes newspapers across Ontario.
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Brock Township; Municipality of Clarington; City of Oshawa; City of Pickering; Scugog Township; Uxbridge Township; Town of Whitby; Regional Municipality of Halton.