Talk:Mississippi Mills, Ontario

The town or the township
Was it just the town of Pakenham that was merged into Mississippi Mills, or the township? If it was just the town, what happened to the rest of the township? --Oldontarian (talk) 08:35, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * It's important to understand that there is a distinction between the common usage of "town" (any identifiable, compact, small-urban community, regardless of its legal status) and the legal one (an incorporated municipality whose boundaries may extend well past the edge of the specific "identifiable, compact, small-urban community" itself) — as an encyclopedia, we need to use the legal definition rather than the common one. That said, I checked the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing's public web directory of municipal amalgamations, and it does indeed appear that the incorporated entity of Pakenham had "township", rather than "town", status prior to the amalgamation — but the common-usage "town" of Pakenham had no separate municipal status at all from the legal-usage "township" of Pakenham, so "town of Pakenham" in this context is referring to the whole municipality of Pakenham, not just the individual community. However, I'll still correct the wording. Bearcat (talk) 16:57, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Almonte and Pakenham deserve their own articles
The Ontario Conservative government in the 1990s forcibly amalgamated Ontario towns and villages arbitrarily into larger municipalities in a failed cost-saving measure. Those amalgamations should not guide Wikipedia, because each of those former towns and villages has its own distinct history, and few people would identify themselves as living in a purely-administrative pseudo-municipality like "Mississippi Mills" or "Quinte West." We can keep this article for the administrative unit, but should restore separate articles for Pakenham and Almonte as recognised places. David (talk) 16:45, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Almonte already has an article. But, I agree 100% on Pakenham. But, there's nothing stopping anyone from creating an article on it. It re-directs here because no one has bothered to create well sourced articles on it yet. -- Earl Andrew - talk 18:58, 27 June 2021 (UTC)