Talk:List of townships in Ontario

What is this list?
Am I wrong or is this actually a list of municipalities, not just Townships? Also, it isn't a list by census divisions but by counties, districts and single tier municipalities. Census division names do not contain "County" or "City of", because they are not the "City of" anything ... they are census divisions (which nearly always align with upper tier and single tier boundaries, but with a few exceptions). Wikipedia does a very poor job of distinguishing between census divisions, counties & districts, and upper tier & single tier municipal governments. Those are three different types of entities but Wikipedia repeatedly has articles that treat them as one in the same. They are not. I know it's confusing but there needs to be a distinction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.71.2.138 (talk) 16:44, 25 October 2016 (UTC)


 * I can't provide you background on this article as I've only made three edits to it. However, it appears to list all townships (both historical townships and current township municipalities) in Ontario, but since there are so many townships, the editors organized the townships by census divisions. Instead, it would be more helpful to list all townships within (at minimum) a sortable table with three columns – the first being the township name, the second being its status (i.e., historical or municipality) and the third indicating which census division it is located within. If you want just a list of township municipalities, see List of township municipalities in Ontario. Hwy43 (talk) 17:33, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

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Adding lists of former municipalities per census division
I have a suggestion of advice. Would it be also appropriate to add some defunct or former municipalities within each of the current census divisions or historic counties? For instance, some of the current metropolitan single-tier municipalities were either formerly counties (i.e.: Brant, Kent, Prince Edward & Victoria) or regional municipalities (i.e.: Metro Toronto, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ottawa-Carleton, Sudbury, Haldimand-Norfolk, etc.). To my understanding, those defunct census divisions (as well as most of the current ones) had at least multiple municipality-level uits (at least 5) and there must had also municipal amalgamations or mergers (since the creation of regional municipalities) during the 70s & the 80s before the whole municipal restructuring within the Province of Ontario during the mid- or late-90s & 2000s. jlog3000 (talk) 13:00, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Populations
This is a bit of original research, but I calculated the populations of the most populated geographic townships in the province using the ridingbuilder tool (for reference):


 * 1) York: 1,788,000
 * 2) Scarborough: 621,000
 * 3) Toronto: 615,000
 * 4) Chinguacousy: 545,000
 * 5) Markham: 462,000
 * 6) Waterloo: 448,000
 * 7) Trafalgar: 445,000
 * 8) Nepean: 428,000
 * 9) Vaughan: 384,000
 * 10) Etobicoke: 376,000
 * 11) Gloucester: 316,000
 * 12) Whitby: 314,000
 * 13) Sandwich: 282,000
 * 14) London: 266,000
 * 15) Barton: 259,000
 * 16) Pickering: 235,000
 * 17) Nelson: 167,000
 * 18) Westminster: 165,000
 * 19) Grantham: 133,000
 * 20) Kingston: 127,000
 * 21) Saltfleet: 126,000
 * 22) Whitchurch: 120,500
 * 23) Innisfil: 119,700
 * 24) Brantford: 118,000
 * 25) Guelph: 107,100
 * 26) Dumfries: 101,200 -- Earl Andrew - talk 15:37, 1 July 2022 (UTC)