List of villages in Ontario

A village is a sub-type of municipalities in the Canadian Province of Ontario. A village can have the municipal status of either a single-tier or lower-tier municipality.

Ontario has 11 villages^[1] that had a cumulative population of 13,558 and an average population of 1,233 in the 2011 Census.^[2] Ontario's largest and smallest villages are Casselman and Thornloe with populations of 3,626 and 123 respectively.^[2]

History

Under the former Municipal Act, 1990, a village was both an urban and a local municipality.^[3] Under this former legislation, a locality with a population of 500 or more could have been incorporated as a village by Ontario's Municipal Board upon review of an application from 75 or more residents of the locality.^[3]

In the transition to the Municipal Act, 2001, the above designations and requirements were abandoned and, as at December 31, 2002, every village that:^[4]

• "existed and formed part of a county, a regional or district municipality or the County of Oxford for municipal purposes" became a lower-tier municipality yet retained its name as a village; and
• "existed and did not form part of a county, a regional or district municipality or the County of Oxford for municipal purposes" became a single-tier municipality yet retained its name as a village.

The current legislation also provides lower and single-tier municipalities with the authority to name themselves as "villages", or other former municipal status types such as "cities", "towns" or "townships", or generically as "municipalities".^[5]

List

See also

• List of cities in Ontario
• List of communities in Ontario
• List of municipalities in Ontario
• List of towns in Ontario
• List of township municipalities in Ontario

References

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