Dunchurch is a compact rural community in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the municipality of Whitestone in Parry Sound District.

[1][5][6][7][8] The community was first settled in late summer 1870 when Arthur Millin, arriving on The Great North Road (that had begun construction in 1867) from Parry Sound, claimed a homestead plot.

[9] To avoid confusion with similarly named places in the province, in 1877 postmaster George Kelcey renamed the community after his birthplace in Warwickshire, England.

[11] The first public lending library opened in Dunchurch in 1973 in part of a portable classroom.

[6] The Meteorological Service of Canada had a measurement station (site ID: 6112133) at Dunchurch operating from 1973 to 2014.