Bathurst District

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[[File:1850 Tallis Map of West Canada or Ontario (cropped - Eastern Ontario).jpg|240px|thumb|right|1850 map of Eastern Ontario showing Bathurst District]]
The '''Bathurst District''' was a historic [[district]] in [[Upper Canada]]. It was created in 1822 from the [[Johnstown District, Upper Canada|Johnstown District]]. Containing [[Carleton County, Ontario|Carleton County]], it existed until 1849.<ref>Preamble, {{Cite canlaw|short title =An Act to provide for the establishment of Courts in the District of Bathurst, and for other purposes therein mentioned|abbr =S.U.C.|year =1823|chapter =2|link= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924016981775?urlappend=%3Bseq=392}}</ref> The district town was [[Perth, Ontario|Perth]].

==History==
In 1824, [[Lanark County, Ontario|Lanark County]] was created from part of Carleton County, so that its constituent townships were divided as follows:<ref>{{Cite canlaw|short title =An Act to divide the County of Carleton, in the District of Bathurst|abbr =S.U.C.|year =1824|chapter =5|link= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924016981775?urlappend=%3Bseq=394}}</ref>

{| class = "wikitable"
|-
|+Counties comprising Bathurst District (1824)
|-
!Carleton
!Lanark
|- valign="top"
|
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* Nepean
* Goulbourne
* Huntley
* March
* Pakenham
* Fitzroy
* Tarbolton
{{div col end}}
together with such Islands in the Ottawa River as are wholly or in greater part opposite thereto
|
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* Bathurst
* Drummond
* Beckwith
* Dalhousie
* Lanark
* Ramsay
* Darling
* Levant
* North Sherbrooke
* South Sherbrooke
{{div col end}}
together with all the unsurveyed lands within the District of Bathurst, and such Islands in the Ottawa River as are wholly or in greater part opposite to the said townships and unsurveyed land
|}

In 1838, upon the creation of the [[Dalhousie District, Upper Canada|Dalhousie District]], the townships were reorganized as follows:<ref>{{Cite canlaw|short title =An Act to erect certain townships now forming parts of the Districts of Bathurst, Johnstown and Ottawa, into a separate District, to be called the District of Dalhousie, and for other purposes therein mentioned|abbr =S.U.C.|year =1838|chapter =25|link= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924016981775?urlappend=%3Bseq=409}}</ref>

{| class = "wikitable"
|-
|+Reorganization of Bathurst and Dalhousie Districts with constituent counties (1838)
|-
!rowspan="2"|Transferred from
!Dalhousie District
!colspan="2"|Bathurst District
|-
!Carleton
!Lanark
![[Renfrew County|Renfrew]]
|- valign="top"
|Bathurst District
|
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* Nepean
* Goulbourn
* Huntley
* March
* Fitzroy
* Tarbolton
{{div col end}}
|
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* Bathurst
* Drummond
* Beckwith
* Dalhousie
* Lanark
* Ramsay
* Darling
* Levant
* North Sherbrooke
* South Sherbrooke
{{div col end}}
|
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* Pakenham
* McNab
* Horton
* Ross
* Westmeath
* Pembroke
{{div col end}}

|- valign="top"
|Johnstown District
|
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* North Gower
* Marlborough
{{div col end}}
|
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* Montague
* so much of the townships of Elmsley and Burgess as lie on the north shore of the Rideau waters
{{div col end}}
|
|- valign="top"
|[[Ottawa District]]
|
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* Gloucester
* Osgoode
{{div col end}}
|
|
|}

By 1845, all lands in the District had been surveyed into the following townships:<ref>{{Cite canlaw|short title =An Act for better defining the limits of the Counties and Districts in Upper Canada, for erecting certain new Townships, for detaching Townships from some Counties and attaching them to others, and for other purposes relative to the division of Upper Canada into Townships, Counties and Districts|abbr =S.Prov.C.|year =1845|chapter =7|schedule = A, B|link=https://archive.org/stream/provincialstatu03canagoog#page/n116/mode/1up}}</ref>

{| class = "wikitable"
|-
|+Counties comprising Bathurst District (1845){{efn|the two counties were united for electoral purposes}}
|-
!Lanark
!Renfrew
|- valign="top"
|
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
* Bathurst
* Beckwith
* Drummond
* Dalhousie
* Darling
* North Elmsley
* North Burgess
* Levant
* Lanark
* Montague
* Pakenham
* Ramsay
* North Sherbrooke
* South Sherbrooke
{{div col end}}
|
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
* Admaston
* Blithefield
* Bagot
* Bromley
* Horton
* McNab
* Pembroke
* Ross
* Stafford
* Westmeath
{{div col end}}
|}

Effective January 1, 1850, Bathurst District was abolished, and the [[United Counties of Lanark and Renfrew]] replaced it for municipal and judicial purposes.<ref>{{Cite canlaw|short title =An Act for abolishing the Territorial Division of Upper-Canada into Districts, and for providing temporary Unions of Counties for Judicial and other purposes, and for the future dissolutions of such Unions, as the increase of wealth and population may require|abbr =S.Prov.C.|year =1849|chapter =78|schedule =B|link =https://books.google.ca/books?id=ulQ1AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA55&pg=PA440#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref>{{efn|the counties still remained united for electoral purposes, known as the County of Lanark<ref>{{Cite canlaw|short title =An Act to make certain alterations in the Territorial Divisions of Upper Canada|abbr =S.Prov.C.|year =1851|chapter =5|schedule=C|link=https://books.google.com/books?id=TwgvAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA1857&ots=HQZPgTpZdH&pg=PA1799#v=onepage&f=false}}</ref>}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|last= Armstrong|first= Frederick Henry|title= Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology|location= Toronto|publisher= Dundurn Press|year= 1985|isbn= 978-0-919670-92-1|oclc= 12966852}}

==Notes==
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==References==
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[[Category:Districts of Upper Canada]]
[[Category:1822 establishments in Upper Canada]]
[[Category:1849 disestablishments in Canada]]

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