Tudor and Cashel is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Hastings County.
The township consists of two non-contiguous portions, separated by Limerick township and the northernmost portion of Tweed.The municipality is mostly rural.
History Tudor Township was created circa 1865.Map of Tudor Township circa 1865 (Creation). Hastings County Historical Society (1957-). Repository: Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County. Accessed 1 June 2020. Cashel Township was created circa 1869.Map of Cashel Township circa 1869 (Creation). By MacLeod and Carre, P.L.S. (1861-1867). Repository: Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County. Accessed 31 May 2020. Tudor and Cashel Townships were administered as one in 1897.Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Collection: MS935; Reel: 83. Accessed via ancestry.com paid subscription 31 May 2020.
Limerick Township and Wollaston Township petitioned unsuccessfully for separation from Tudor Township in 1868.Limerick Township : Petition to separate from Tudor Township 9 December 1868 (Creation). Hastings County Historical Society (1957-). Repository: Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County. File contains a manuscript report of the Hastings County Council Committee of Whole, 1868, finding against a petition for the separation of Wollaston and Limerick Townships from Tudor Township and the creation of separate township councils. Accessed 1 June 2020. Wollaston Township was eventually formed circa 1880. Limerick Township was eventually formed in 1887 between today's Tudor and Cashel Townships. Geologically Limerick Township and Tudor Township are very similar, with valuable mineral resources.Geology of Limerick and Tudor Townships, Hastings County. By S. B. Lumbers. Geological Report 67. Ontario Department of Mines, publ. Toronto, 1969.
After the separation of old Limerick Township, the townships of Tudor and Cashel were geographically separated since Limerick abutted along a corner of old Grimsthorpe Township (which was later amalgamated into the Municipality of Tweed).
Communities
Gilmour () Glanmire (), ghost town Gunter () Millbridge (), ghost townPlan of Millbridge in the Township of Tudor 28 March 1867 (Creation). By Charles Fraser Aylsworth Sr., P.L.S. (1834-1911). Repository: Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County. Accessed 1 June 2020. Millbridge Station (), ghost town
Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Tudor and Cashel had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Mother tongue (2021): English as first language: 92.6% French as first language: 0.7% English and French as first language: 0.7% Other as first language: 6.1%
See also List of townships in Ontario
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