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Coordinates: 45°10′N 74°57′W / 45.167°N 74.950°W / 45.167; -74.950
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Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
Historic County Courthouse and offices in Cornwall
Historic County Courthouse and offices in Cornwall
Coat of arms of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
Location of Stormont Dundas and Glengarry United Counties
Location of Stormont Dundas and Glengarry United Counties
Coordinates: 45°10′N 74°57′W / 45.167°N 74.950°W / 45.167; -74.950
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
RegionEastern Ontario
Established1850
County seatCornwall
Municipalities
Government
 • WardenMartin Lang
Area
 • Land3,235.54 km2 (1,249.25 sq mi)
 • Census div.3,308.85 km2 (1,277.55 sq mi)
 Land area excludes Cornwall and Akwesasne
Population
 (2021)[1]
 • Total
66,792
 • Density20.6/km2 (53/sq mi)
 • Census div.
114,637
 • Census div. density34.6/km2 (90/sq mi)
 Total excludes Cornwall and Akwesasne
Time zoneUTC-5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
Websitewww.sdg.on.ca Edit this at Wikidata

The United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (SDG) is a county and census division in the Canadian province of Ontario, that comprises three historical counties. The county's administrative office is located within the City of Cornwall, which, together with the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne, is geographically within the county but administered independently.

The United Counties of SDG borders Quebec to the east and New York in the United States to the south. The sovereign Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne straddles both borders, thus including territory partly within Ontario, Quebec and New York.

History

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The area along the Saint Lawrence River had been settled by indigenous peoples for thousands of years. About 2,000 years ago, the Point Peninsula complex people built earthen mounds, such as those at Serpent Mounds Park and Cameron's Point. They were gradually replaced about 1000–1300 AD by the Owasco people, who had migrated northward. They practised a more settled form of agriculture.

These people are believed to have developed into the Iroquoian-speaking people, of which the St. Lawrence Iroquoians are identified as having settled along the river valley of the same name. They spoke Laurentian, practised agriculture, and built fortified villages, such as those visited and described by explorer Jacques Cartier. They were a group distinct from the Iroquois Five Nations based in present-day New York. Historians believe the Mohawk Iroquois pushed out or destroyed the St. Lawrence Iroquoians by 1600 and used the uninhabited territory as a hunting and trapping ground.[2] In the 17th and early 18th century, some settled at Kahnawake, south of Montreal.

In the late 1750s, some 30 Mohawk families who had converted to Christianity, who had previously lived at Kahnawake, founded Akwesasne further West (upriver) in what would become Ontario. As of 2019, Akwesasne was the largest Mohawk territory in Canada, with a population of about 12,000 people.

Though accounts suggest Europeans filtered into the area and had lived in poorly documented, unofficial and widely scattered settlements for some time, the first formally documented European settlement was established in 1784 by United Empire Loyalists, primarily from the former British colony of New York. After the war for American independence, former colonial soldiers loyal to the Crown and other disbanded soldiers and their families began to settle at the site of Cornwall, then called New Johnstown.[3] Many of the new arrivals were of German origin, with the town being named for Johnstown, New York where many came from.

The main group were led by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Johnson and were soldiers from the First Battalion King's Royal Regiment of New York and a contingent of the 84th Royal Highland Emigrants. Following the success of rebellious colonists in the American Revolution, many of those afraid for their lives or uncomfortable in the newly independent United States would become "United Empire Loyalists", as they were later called, and migrated to Canada. The British government helped them settle throughout the Canadas as a reward for their loyalty and to compensate them for their losses in the United States. One of the chief settlement regions was the St Lawrence River valley, from Kingston to Cornwall, which would later be known as "loyalist country".

They founded a settlement on the site formerly called Pointe Maligne by French colonists and renamed it "Royal Settlement #2", and, later, "New Johnstown". It was later renamed Cornwall by the British for the Duke of Cornwall by proclamation of Prince George, and in 1834 the town became one of the first incorporated municipalities in the British colony of Upper Canada.[4] The construction of the Cornwall Canal between 1834 and 1842 accelerated the community's development into a regional and industrial economic "capital" for a growing hinterland of towns and villages.[3][5]

The united counties comprises six of the original eight Royal Townships of Upper Canada: Lancaster, Charlottenburgh, Cornwall, Osnabruck, Williamsburgh and Matilda. These six townships were divided into 12 a few years after their creation. Each set of four townships became one of three separate counties: Lancaster, Charlottenburgh, Kenyon and Lochiel became Glengarry County, Cornwall, Osnabruck, Finch and Roxborough became Stormont County, and Williamsburgh, Matilda, Winchester and Mountain became Dundas County. The three counties were later amalgamated to form the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.

In 1846, the population of Cornwall was about 1,600 and there were many brick and stone houses as well as a stone courthouse and jail, but the surrounding region contained a large number of towns that had grown from what were, originally, quite isolated settlements. Several government offices were located in Cornwall, but there was little industry, except for a foundry and two tanneries. However, many independent tradesmen of various types worked in the "city" and in the surrounding counties. Other town-based amenities in Cornwall included two bank agencies, eight taverns and a ladies' school.[6]

Cornwall, circa 1900

Canal and lock construction in the late 1800s and early 1900s brought work and international business. Railway connections, beginning in the 1850s, provided connections between Cornwall and local communities in the counties that required access to public services in Cornwall itself, such as high schools and medical services, and helped cement Cornwall's position as a regional centre for a large, rapidly expanding and increasingly populated rural hinterland .[7] The network of villages and towns surrounding Cornwall helped make the city a local entrepot for business, commerce, media and services, and the development of communication and travel networks turned what was originally a series of isolated towns into a cohesive economic and social region.

Situated on the southern border of the counties along the St. Lawrence River, west of Cornwall, were several smaller communities that no longer exist. Now known as the Lost Villages, the communities were permanently flooded in 1958 during the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway as the massive Moses-Saunders Power Dam at the western end of the city required a reservoir. The villages were flooded when it was filled. Much of the Cornwall region's local character also changed at this time.

Ethnic history

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Despite being a rural area, the United Counties have had a remarkably complex cultural history. Because of the usefulness of the St Lawrence river valley for transportation and the region's general fertility and access to water, the river basin is a natural corridor for people and goods, migration and conquest, and many groups who have traveled through have also settled there.

Prior to European colonization, the Mohawks and Six Nations Iroquois settled, raided and battled through the St. Lawrence valley.[8] The French and British fought over the waterway, often both using and being used by native allies in highly complex economic and political competition. During the War of 1812, a generation after thirteen of the British colonies declared independence and became the United States, the region became a battleground between Americans and the people who would become today's Canadians.[9] Formally founded under colonial British control to be a new home for refugees from the American Revolution, it remained a home for refugees and migrants for much of its history.

Early settlement of the region is largely undocumented, although oral histories and early accounts suggest that European settlers, traders and farmers lived in the area long before formal state recognition, and had been interacting with and/or mixing with the native population for most of that time.

The post-contact regional population was a mixture of French Canadian, Ojibwe and Mohawk residents. To this mix was added an influx of American English Loyalists and refugees from the Thirteen Colonies (now the United States), other French Canadian and Acadian migrants and, later, poor Scottish and Irish immigrants and refugees who arrived from overseas and from other parts of Canada. These different groups mixed and integrated over time, with family names and histories reflecting a blending of different backgrounds that became typical of Eastern Ontario.[10][11]

Smaller but nevertheless impressive contributions in the region were made by a host of other migrants, from Jewish traders, craftsmen and merchants, to Eastern European refugees and even a significant body of former slaves. Many of these stories go unreported in standard histories, which pass over the remarkable history of migration in the region. One good example is the story of John Baker who died in Cornwall in 1871 at the age of 93. Born in Lower Canada, he was said to be the last Canadian born into slavery, and had been an active soldier in the War of 1812, fighting in both Canada and Europe.[12] Slavery was ended in the colony of Upper Canada in stages, beginning in 1793 when importing slaves was banned, and culminating in 1819 when Upper Canada Attorney-General John Robinson declared all slaves in the colony to be freed, making Upper Canada the first place in the British Empire - and, in fact, the world - to unequivocally move towards formal abolition of chattel slavery. Most of these former slaves settled and integrated into the same communities where they were freed. By 1833, this process of liberation had succeeded throughout the Empire and all slaves in the British Empire were free. The British Empire was the first major state in world history to abolish slavery, and Ontario was the place where this process first bore fruit. John Baker, the last slave to be born into slavery in Canada, died in Cornwall.[13][14]

"Canada" had been stripped from France after the Seven Years' War, and this included roughly the areas now covered by the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario. In the aftermath of the American Revolution, the British authorities split the Province of Canada in 1791 into two, Upper Canada for English settlers fleeing persecution in the United States and Lower Canada for the French (later, Ontario and Quebec, respectively). This was designed to accommodate Loyalists who had fled post-war reprisals and persecution in the new United States, though the 5,000 English-speaking settlers in the Eastern Township of Quebec were allowed to stay in the French-speaking area and many French settlers moved into Ontario, especially into Eastern Ontario. Along with the area's original inhabitants, this made the area a patchwork of intersecting ethnicities that would ultimately end up blending.

Cornwall and the surrounding area, originally called "Royal Settlement #2" and then "New Jamestown", was initially a rough place, and was largely left to its own devices by all levels of government. According to contemporaneous reports, this bred a local culture of intense self-reliance. Adding to this initial history of pragmatic entrepreneurialism, beginning very early with the founding of the city, provincial and federal governments have typically neglected the area, treating it as little more than a transit corridor, an attitude which reached its apogee when the St. Lawrence Seaway was smashed through the region in the late 1950s, allowing the Canadian and American national economies to permanently bypass the region, leaving it once again to become something of an economic backwater. From the beginning to the present day, those who remained in the region tended to be those who had the fortitude and energy to survive on their own, with little useful outside assistance.

The original 516 settlers arrived in Royal Township #2 with minimal supplies and faced years of hard work and possible starvation. Upon their departure from military camps in Montreal, Pointe Claire, Saint Anne, and Lachine in the fall of 1784, Loyalists were given a tent, one month's worth of food rations, clothes, and agricultural provisions by regiment commanders. They were promised one cow for every two families, an axe, and other necessary tools in the near future. For the next three years, bateaux (boat) crews delivered rations to the township, after which residents were left to fend for themselves.[10]

The region's energetic spirit of enterprise and fortitude was well known in the 19th century. David Thompson, the Welsh-Canadian explorer who mapped the Far West and was called the greatest land geographer in history, drew many of his traveling companions from Cornwall's rural hinterland, drawing on Scottish and native settlers, and himself lived in Williamstown.[15]

More recently, Cornwall has seen an increase in the arrival of new immigrants,[citation needed] who tend to integrate and often fare better than immigrants in other parts of the country.[16]

Administrative divisions

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Upper Canada Village, near Morrisburg, South Dundas

The City of Cornwall and Akwesasne First Nations reserve are within the Stormont, Dundas, Glengarry census division but is independent of the county.

Municipality:

Townships:

Historical counties

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Demographics

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As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry had a population of 114,637 living in 48,692 of its 50,802 total private dwellings, a change of 1% from its 2016 population of 113,448. With a land area of 3,308.85 km2 (1,277.55 sq mi), it had a population density of 34.6/km2 (89.7/sq mi) in 2021.[1]

As an upper-tier municipality that excludes the City of Cornwall, the United Counties had a population of 64,824 living in 25,580 of its 27,018 total dwellings in the 2011 Census, a 0.7% change from its 2006 population of 64,374. With a land area of 3,247.32 km2 (1,253.80 sq mi), it had a population density of 20.0/km2 (51.7/sq mi) in 2011.[17]

Canada census – United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (census division)* community profile
202120162011
Population114,637 (+1.0% from 2016)113,429 (+2.0% from 2011)111,164 (0.7% from 2006)
Land area3,308.85 km2 (1,277.55 sq mi)3,309.87 km2 (1,277.95 sq mi)3,308.84 km2 (1,277.55 sq mi)
Population density34.6/km2 (90/sq mi)34.3/km2 (89/sq mi)33.6/km2 (87/sq mi)
Median age47.6 (M: 46.4, F: 48.8)47.1 (M: 46.1, F: 48.1)45.6 (M: 44.9, F: 46.3)
Private dwellings50,802 (total)  48,692 (occupied)50,455 (total)  47,829 (occupied)48,290 (total) 
Median household income$73,500$59,526
Notes: *Includes the City of Cornwall while excludes the incompletely enumerated portion of the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne.
References: 2021[18] 2016[19] 2011[20]

Provincial and Federal Politics

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Most of the United Counties, with the exception of North Glengarry, constitutes the federal and provincial electoral district of Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry. North Glengarry is part of the electoral district of Glengarry—Prescott—Russell. Both districts are currently represented federally by Conservative MP Eric Duncan and Liberal MP Francis Drouin, and provincially by Conservative MPP Nolan Quinn and Liberal MPP Amanda Simard in Glengarry—Prescott—Russell.

Counties Council

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The United Counties is currently governed by the Counties Council, which is composed of the mayors and deputy mayors of each municipality. The Counties Council is headed by the Warden, a council member who is elected annually by the other council members.

History of the Counties Council

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From 1792 to 1849, the counties of Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry were all part of the Eastern District. Until 1841, the administrative and judicial affairs of each district were overseen by the magistrates in Quarter Sessions (local justices in the district).[22] District councils were created across the province (then Canada West) in 1841 by the District Councils Act; the system came into effect the following year. Wardens were appointed by the Governor of the province.[23] Each municipality elected one person to serve on the council, or two people if the number of voters in the municipality exceeded 300. Elections were held annually with one-third of the council retiring at the end of each year. [24] The District Councils Act was repealed in Canada West in 1849 and replaced by the Municipal Corporations Act, also known as the Baldwin Act. This act created the two-tier municipal system that is still used today. It united the counties of Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry into one corporate body and created the Counties Council.[25]

List of Wardens

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Wardens of SDG (1842-1940)
Year Warden Municipality
1842-1849 Alexander Fraser Eastern District
1850 Dr. Daniel E. McIntyre Charlottenburg Twp.
1851 William Mattice Cornwall Town
1852 Samuel Ault Osnabruck Twp.
1853 Jacob Brouse Matilda Twp.
1854 Alexander McDonell Lochiel Twp.
1855 William Colquhoun Osnabruck Twp.
1856 Donald A. McDonald Lochiel Twp.
1857 Alexander McDougall Cornwall Town
1858 William Elliot Iroquois Village
1859 James McDonell Kenyon Twp.
1860 George McDonell Roxborough Twp.
1861 Alexander G. McDonell Morrisburg Village
1862 James Craig Charlottenburg Twp.
1863 Alexander McIntosh Roxborough Twp.
1864 Philip Carman Iroquois Village
1865 James Fraser Kenyon Twp.
1866 A. James Cockburn Finch Twp.
1867 Dr. Asaph B. Sherman Williamsburg Twp.
1868 Archibald McNab Lochiel Twp.
1869 Angus Bethune Cornwall Town
1870 David Rae Winchester Twp.
1871 Peter Kennedy Kenyon Twp.
1872 John G. Snetsinger Cornwall Twp.
1873 Mahlon Ford Beach Winchester Twp.
1874 A. E. Rae Lancaster Twp.
1875 John Brown Roxborough Twp.
1876 Adam Harkness Matilda Twp.
1877 James Clark Kenyon Twp.
1878 William Mack Cornwall Town
1879 Dr. Theodore F. Chamberlain Morrisburg Village
1880 Duncan A. McDonald Lochiel Twp.
1881 Isaiah R. Ault Osnabruck Twp.
1882 James Dickey Williamsburg Twp.
1883 A. J. Grant Charlottenburg Twp.
1884 Finlay D. McNaughton Finch Twp.
1885 William McKenzie Morrisburg Village
1886 Donald A. McArthur Alexandria Town
1887 Francis Anderson Osnabruck Twp.
1888 Jeremiah F. Gibbons Morrisburg Village
1889 Peter A. Stewart Lochiel Twp.
1890 George Kerr Osnabruck Twp.
1891 Thomas McDonald Morrisburg Village
1892 Alexander A. Stewart Kenyon Twp.
1893 John Bennett Roxborough Twp.
1894 Thomas Hamilton Winchester Twp.
1895 Donald McNaughton Lancaster Village
1896 Donald McDonald Cornwall Twp.
1897 John H. Meikle Williamsburg Twp.
1898 Duncan C. McRae Lancaster Twp.
1899 James T. Kirkpatrick Cornwall Twp.
1900 Thomas S. Edwards Matilda Twp.
1901 Alexander D. McRae Kenyon Twp.
1902 Hugh McMillan Finch Twp.
1903 Michael J. Casselman Williamsburg Twp.
1904 John Ban Snyder Lancaster Twp.
1905 James L. Groves Cornwall Twp.
1906 Jeremiah F. Cass Winchester Twp.
1907 Captain Hugh A. Cameron Charlottenburg Twp.
1908 Edward O'Callaghan Cornwall Town
1909 Robert Fraser Winchester Twp.
1910 Murdoch McRae Kenyon Twp.
1911 George L. McLean Finch Village
1912 Malcolm S. Beckstead Williamsburg Twp.
1913 David Robertson Lochiel Twp.
1914 James William McLeod Cornwall Twp.
1915 William G. Timmins Mountain Twp.
1916 George E. Clark Charlottenburg Twp.
1917 Duncan A. McNaughton Finch Village
1918 William J. Fisher Winchester Village
1919 Alexander H. Robertson Maxville Village
1920 David Dunbar Osnabruck Twp.
1921 Wesley Hamilton Chesterville Village
1922 James A. Sangster Lancaster Twp.
1923 Charles C. Munro Roxborough Twp.
1924 George S. Smyth Matilda Twp.
1925 Allan Campbell Lochiel Twp.
1926 Robert C. Bogart Finch Twp.
1927 Charles F. Marselis Williamsburg Twp.
1928 Angus A. Macdonell Charlottenburg Twp.
1929 Glenn A. Shaver Osnabruck Twp.
1930 Edward Strader Iroquois Village
1931 Dr. J. Howard Munro Maxville Village
1932 Henry C. Nugent Finch Twp.
1933 Howard H. Nesbitt Winchester Twp.
1934 John D. McDonald Lancaster Twp.
1935 George L. McIntosh Roxborough Twp.
1936 Arthur Flynn Morrisburg Village
1937 J. Roger McLachlan Lancaster Village
1938 Wallace Gallinger Osnabruck Twp.
1939 Robert Bryan Mountain Twp.
1940 Robert McNaught Charlottenburg Twp.
Wardens of SDG (1941-Present)
Year Warden Municipality
1941 John L. McDonald Cornwall Twp.
1942 Alfred Deeks Matilda Twp.
1943 Donald B. McDonald Lochiel Twp.
1944 Gladstone McLean Finch Village
1945 Oscar Becksted Williamsburg Twp.
1946 John D. McPherson Alexandria Twp.
1947 Kenzie MacGillivray Finch Twp.
1948 Fred H. Broder Morrisburg Village
1949 James A. McArthur Lancaster Village
1950 John D. Ferguson Roxborough Twp.
1951 Harold E. Durant Winchester Twp.
1952 T. Scott Fraser Lancaster Twp.
1953 J. Herbert Maginnis Osnabruck Twp.
1954 Lloyd C. Davis Iroquois Village
1955 John McLennan Charlottenburg Twp.
1956 H. H. Ouderkirk Finch Village
1957 Charles McMillan Chesterville Village
1958 Allan C. Vallance Kenyon Twp.
1959 W. S. Fraser Roxborough Twp.
1960 John M. Fader Winchester Village
1961 James N. Fitzgerald Maxville Village
1962 Robert Smith Finch Village
1963 Mahlon Zeron Matilda Twp.
1964 Lloyd McHugh Alexandria Town
1965 Charles E. Blair Roxborough Twp.
1966 Donald Kyle Williamsburg Twp.
1967 Archibald MacDonell Charlottenburg Twp.
1968 James A. Zeran Osnabruck Twp.
1969 Cecil MacNabb Winchester Twp.
1970 Alexander McNaughton Lancaster Twp.
1971 Lynden S. Hough Finch Village
1972 Carlton F. McInnis Morrisburg Village
1973 Gerard Massie Lochiel Twp.
1974 Harold Brown Cornwall Twp.
1975 John C. Whittker Williamsburg Twp.
1976 William J. Cumming Lancaster Village
1977 Elwin Waldroff Osnabruck Twp.
1978 Ewatt Simms Mountain Twp.
1979 Hubert Quart Maxville Village
1980 George S. Cooper Matilda Twp.
1981 George A. Crites Roxborough Twp.
1982 Hugh McIntyre Kenyon Twp.
1983 John C. Cleary Cornwall Twp.
1984 Ewen J. McDonald Charlottenburg Twp.
1985 William D. Dillabough Williamsburg Twp.
1986 Ralph MacKenzie Finch Twp.
1987 Keith Fawcett Mountain Twp.
1988 Stewart Hart Osnabruck Twp.
1989 George E. Currier Maxville Village
1990 Claude Cousineau Winchester Twp.
1991 Ronald MacDonell Lochiel Twp.
1992 James Cook Chesterville Village
1993 John Moss Cornwall Twp.
1994 Charles H. Sangster Lancaster Twp.
1995 Floyd R. Dingwall Finch Twp.
1996 Charles A. Barkley Matilda Twp.
1997 Leslie O'Shaughnessy (Jan-Jun) Charlottenburg Twp.
Jim Bancroft (Jul-Dec) Osnabruck Twp.
1998 Archie R. Byers North Stormont
1999 Roger Cole North Dundas
2000 Frank Prevost South Glengarry
2001 Heine Bruining South Stormont
2002 Cameron H. Martel South Dundas
2003 Bill Hagen North Glengarry
2004 Dennis Fife North Stormont
2005 Alvin Runnalls North Dundas
2006 Jim McDonell South Glengarry
2007 Dennis Fife North Stormont
2008 Estella Rose North Dundas
2009 Chris McDonell North Glengarry
2010 Bryan McGillis South Stormont
2011 Steven Byvelds South Dundas
2012 Ian McLeod South Glengarry
2013 Bill McGimpsey North Stormont
2014 Eric Duncan North Dundas
2015 Eric Duncan North Dundas
2016 Jamie MacDonald North Glengarry
2017 Jim Bancroft South Stormont
2018 Ian McLeod South Glengarry
2019 Jamie MacDonald North Glengarry
2020 Frank Prevost South Glengarry
2021[26] Frank Prevost (Jan-Jun) South Glengarry
Allan Armstrong (Jun-Dec) North Dundas
2022 Carma Williams North Glengarry
2023 Tony Fraser North Dundas
2024 Jamie MacDonald North Glengarry
2025 Martin Lang South Glengarry
2026 François Landry North Stormont

See also

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  14. ^ Abolition of slavery timeline
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