North Huron, Ontario

Besides the town of Wingham and the village of Blyth, the township of North Huron comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including:

• Former Wawanosh East Township: - Belgrave,{{efn|group=nohur|name=belg|Shared with the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry; and formerly shared between Morris and Wawanosh East Townships.}} Blyth,{{efn|group=nohur|name=bly|Shared with the Township of Central Huron and the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry; and formerly shared between Hullett, Morris and Wawanosh East Townships.}} Whitechurch,{{efn|group=nohur|name=whch|Partially shared with the Township of Huron-Kinloss within Bruce County.}} Wingham;{{efn|group=nohur|name=wing|Shared with the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry; and formerly shared between Morris, Turnberry and Wawanosh East Townships. Former village within Turnberry Township.}} Auburn;{{efn|group=nohur|name=aub|Shared with the Township of Ashfield–Colborne–Wawanosh and the Municipality of Central Huron; and formerly shared between Hullett, Wawanosh East and Wawanosh West Townships.}} Donnybrook,{{efn|group=nohur|name=acw|Shared with the Township of Ashfield–Colborne–Wawanosh.}} Fordyce,{{efn|group=nohur|name=acw}} Hutton Heights,{{efn|group=nohur|name=mt|Shared with the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry.}} Marnock, Westfield

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Indigenous people's presence in North Huron has been recorded long before European settlers arrived in the 1830s. The largest part of the township - East Wawanosh - is named after Chippewa Chief Wawanosh who signed an 1825 land use treaty. Arrowheads and other indigenous artifacts have been found by East Wawanosh farmers since European settlement.{{cite book|editor1-last=Jamieson|editor1-first=Lori|title=Wilderness to Wawanosh: East Wawanosh Township 1867-1992|date=1992|publisher=Township of East Wawanosh|location=Belgrave, Ontario|isbn=0-9695159-0-1}}

Wawanosh was originally the largest township in Huron County, with 85,640 acres. According to an early land assessment, there were 133 residents in 1844 and 87 acres of land cultivated. In 1850, an acre of land cost 8 shillings. Within 20 years, the population grew to 3,151 residents, with 12,000 acres cleared.{{cite book|last1=Vincent|first1=Edith|editor1-last=Jamieson|editor1-first=L.|title=Wilderness to Wawanosh, East Wawanosh Township 1867-1992|date=1992|publisher=Township of East Wawanosh|location=Belgrave, Ontario|isbn=0-9695159-0-1|pages=14–15|chapter=The Early Story}}

In 1866, Wawanosh was divided into two separate townships - East Wawanosh and West Wawanosh, which is now part of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh township.

By 1869, Belgrave was a village with a population of 50 in the Township of Morris County, Huron. It was established on the Maitland River. It was a stop on the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway. There were stages to Wingham, Teeswater, Riversdale and Kincardine. The average price of land was $20.The province of Ontario gazetteer and directory. H. McEvoy Editor and Compiler, Toronto : Robertson & Cook, Publishers, 1869

More than 20 schools have existed in North Huron. From the 1850s to 1960s, more than a dozen rural school houses educated the children of East Wawanosh. In 1967, East Wawanosh Public School was opened and taught hundreds of children from Kindergarten to Grade 8. The school closed in 2012, with remaining students sent to Wingham.{{Citation|last=Avon Maitland DSB|title=East Wawanosh School Closing Celebrations|date=2012-06-12|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs2ab3MGMnc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/Vs2ab3MGMnc |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|access-date=2018-11-06}}{{cbignore}}

{{Historical populations

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|2001|4,984

|2006|5,015

|2011|4,884{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=3540055&Geo2=CD&Code2=3540&Data=Count&SearchText=Huron&SearchType=Contains&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115124606/http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=3540055&Geo2=CD&Code2=3540&Data=Count&SearchText=Huron&SearchType=Contains&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 15, 2013|title=North Huron, Ontario (Code 3540055) census profile|publisher=Statistics Canada|work=2011 Census of Population|accessdate=2012-08-10}}

|2016|4,932

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In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, North Huron had a population of {{val|5052|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|2157|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|2277|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:5052-4932}}|4932|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|4932|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|179.01|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|5052|179.01|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000203&geocode=A000235 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Ontario | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=April 2, 2022}}

Former residents include:

• Alice Munro - writer
• Jo Manning - artist
• George Agnew Reid - painter

• List of townships in Ontario

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{{Geographic location

| Centre = North Huron

| North = Huron-Kinloss

| East = Morris-Turnberry

| South = Central Huron

| West = Ashfield–Colborne–Wawanosh

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Category:Township municipalities in Ontario

Category:Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario

Category:Municipalities in Huron County, Ontario