township

noun, Ont. and Que., one of the subdivisions of a county; the municipality of such an area, considered as a corporate body (DCHP); Wolfe Island was a township until 1998, when it became part of the amalgamated Frontenac Islands Township; see also township (attributive)

“Frontenac Islands is the smallest township in Ontario.”

“They’d have a chicken supper in the middle of the winter along in February in the Parish Hall upstairs … The township owns it now.”

“He loved kids, you know. All of his estate was given to the township in trust to build playgrounds for the kids on the Island.”

“We live now among the windmills, and we love the windmills. And I’m sure the township does too, because it saved the township financially.”

“Well, I’m sure you’ve got a picture of the 1949, when the township won that league.”

“My grandfather gave the community centre and the racetrack there to the township or sold it to the township. I don’t know which.”

“So the township started running the trip on Wednesday night when the sale barn was open, so people could take calves and whatever they had to sell to the sale barn.”

“Syl Apps had the township promise that they would keep the Simcoe Island Ferry up. He would take over the Wolfe Island, but the township had to look after Simcoe.”

“We never really had plowed roads ’til after I moved here. I guess it was that they got the township to pay somebody to plow the road out up here.”

“The cost of road maintenance is a killer. You get no money from the province anymore for road maintenance. We have miles and miles and miles of road. And that doesn’t count the laneways. This is a lane here, and it’s not maintained by the township. They don’t want to touch it. And we have lanes going into cottages, houses, many places. And the township says, ‘We don’t want to talk about those’.”