Category: West Wawanosh Township, Ontario

Categories: Historic Places, Ontario

This second area of Crown Land surveyed, in part, before the treaty which created the Queen's Bush, was the largest of all the townships of Huron. It is almost square in shape and was bounded on the east by Morris, by Hullett and Colborne on the south, Ashfield on the west and Turnberry and the Township of Kinloss in Bruce on the north. There were no settlers in the township before 1840. The first settler in Wawanosh was John Jackman who settled on Lot 18, Concession 1, around 1840. The southern part of Wawanosh (it was not divided into East and West Wawanosh until 1866) was first settled about 1840, and by 1846 the first log school was built on Lot 13, Concession 2, in the extreme south, to serve both Wawanosh and Ashfield children. James Somerville built the first mill in West Wawanosh on Lot 16, Concession 10. In 1866 it was divided into two townships West Wawanosh and East Wawanosh. The Township of Ashfield–Colborne–Wawanosh is a municipality in Huron County, Ontario, Canada. It was formed as an amalgamation of the former Ashfield, Colborne and West Wawanosh townships in 2001.

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