Category: Laxton Digby and Longford Township, Ontario

Categories: Victoria County, Ontario


Laxton, Digby and Longford are united for municipal and censual purposes. The township of Laxton, Digby and Longford is an amalgamation of the once individual townships of Digby and Laxton, and half of the original Longford Township. The separate township of Longford is uninhabited, though dotted with abandoned logging towns. 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 townships within Victoria County. In 1867 John Thomson purchased by auction the right to cut timber in the township, from the Canadian Land and Emigration Company, to supply timber for his mill at Longford Mills, named for the township. Thomson later purchased the township outright from the Company. The date of this union is not known. In 2001 the administration of Victoria County was replaced by one named the City of Kawartha Lakes.

For events after 2001, see Kawartha Lakes, Ontario.


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07 May 1895 Laxton Township, Victoria, Ontario, Canada
03 Jun 1895 Laxton Township, Victoria, Canada West
16 Feb 1895 Laxton Township, Victoria, Ontario, Canada
abt 1833 Upper Canada
bef 30 Oct 1864 - 04 Jan 1931
24 Oct 1895 Laxton Township, Victoria, Ontario, Canada
14 Jun 1895 Laxton Township, Victoria, Ontario, Canada - abt 1985
abt 1856 - 08 Jun 1916 photo
05 May 1895 Laxton Township, Victoria, Ontario, Canada
16 Sep 1861 Reach, York, Canada West - 17 Dec 1928
25 May 1895 Laxton Township, Victoria, Ontario, Canada
01 Dec 1860 Brighton, Northumberland, Canada West - 29 Feb 1960
26 Feb 1870 Laxton Township, Victoria, Ontario, Canada




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