Nepean Township is a former incorporated and now geographic township in Eastern Ontario, Canada, now part of the City of Ottawa.
Originally known as Township D, it was established in 1792. In 1800, it became part of Carleton County and was incorporated as a township in 1850. The first settler in the township was Jehiel Collins, from Vermont, who settled in an area near the Ottawa River which later became part of Bytown. Over the years, parts of Nepean Township were annexed by the expanding city of Ottawa. The original town hall of the township of Nepean was located in Westboro, which became part of Ottawa in 1949. A new town hall was built in Bells Corners in 1966. Nepean was incorporated as a city in 1978 and became part of the amalgamated city of Ottawa in 2001.
Nepean Township took its name from Sir Evan Nepean, British Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1782 to 1791. According to the Canada 2001 Census, the Township (original boundaries) had a population of 339,708.
The 1850 boundaries of Nepean Township were the Ottawa River on the north, the Rideau River on the east, approximately along where Bankfield Road and Brophy Drive are today on the south, and approximately where Eagleson Road, March Road, and Hertzberg Road are today through to Shirleys Bay on the west. The township included much of what is now Ottawa, all of the former City of Nepean, and parts of the former City of Kanata. To the west of Nepean Township was Goulbourn and March Townships, to the east Gloucester Township, and to the south North Gower Township.
Reeves 1850 - Frederick Bearman 1850 - Chester Chapman 1854 - John Scott 1856 - George Bell 1858 - Samuel Davison 1862 - Nelson George Robinson 1864 - Thomas Graham 1865 - John Dawson 1873 - Col. John Fenton Bearman 1875 - Thomas Clark 1886 - John Dawson 1890 - John Boyce 1893 - James Bearman 1896 - George Boyce 1897 - William Henderson 1897 - James Bearman 1900 - Frederick Augustus Heney 1905 - John George Clark 1906 - Frederick Augustus Heney 1913 - Frederick Henry Honeywell 1916 - Bower Henry 1919 - William Joynt 1922 - W. Fred Bell 1923 - Walter Lionel Graham 1924 - Albert Bentham Ullett 1925 - John William Arnott 1927 - Robert Green 1929 - Robert Ernest Nelson 1933 - George Herbert Bradley 1938 - Robert Mackie 1939 - John Alexander Dawson 1945 - Wellington Garfield Cummings 1947 - Harry Parslow 1949 - Thomas Campbell Keenan 1954 - Douglas Aubrey Moodie 1970 - Andrew S. Haydon
See also List of townships in Ontario
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