Erin Township

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Erin Township was a historic rural municipality in what is now Ontario, Canada, known for its agricultural communities and early European settlement.

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Erin Township canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf former rural municipality
historic township
administrativeCenter Erin, Ontario
country Canada
earlySettlersOrigin British Isles
England
Ireland
Scotland
governance township council
hasSettlement Ballinafad, Ontario
Binkham, Ontario
Cedar Valley, Ontario
Crewsons Corners, Ontario
Erin, Ontario
Hillsburgh, Ontario
linked to: Hillsburgh

Orton, Ontario
Ospringe, Ontario
Waldemar, Ontario
historicalEconomy dairy farming
grain production
livestock raising
mixed farming
historicalLocation Canada West
Upper Canada
historicalStatus dissolved municipality
knownFor agricultural communities
early European settlement
landUse rural
language English
locatedEastOf Guelph, Ontario
linked to: Guelph
locatedIn Ontario
Wellington County
locatedInTimeZone Eastern Time Zone
locatedNear Credit River watershed
Grand River watershed
locatedNortheastOf Acton, Ontario
locatedNorthOf Georgetown, Ontario
Halton Region
mergedInto Town of Erin
linked to: Erin village
partOf Province of Ontario
linked to: Ontario
primaryEconomicActivity agriculture
primaryLandCover farmland
mixed forest
region Southwestern Ontario
Wellington County rural townships
settlementType township municipality
successor Town of Erin
linked to: Erin village
terrain rolling farmland
transportation local concession roads

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