A town is a sub-type of municipalities in the Canadian province of Ontario.
[2] In the 2021 Census, Ontario's largest and smallest towns are Oakville and Latchford with populations of 213,759[3] and 355[4] respectively.
[5] Under this former legislation, a locality with a population of 2,000 or more could have been incorporated as a town by Ontario's Municipal Board upon review of an application from 75 or more residents of the locality.
[5] It also allowed the Municipal Board to change the status of a village or township to a town if it had a population of 2,000 upon review of an application from the village or township.
[5] In the transition to the Municipal Act, 2001, these requirements were abandoned and, as at December 31, 2002, every town that:[6] The current legislation also provides lower and single-tier municipalities with the authority to name themselves as "towns", or other former municipal status types such as "cities", "villages" or "townships", or generically as "municipalities".