List of township municipalities in Ontario

A township is a type of municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario.

They can have either single-tier[clarification needed] status or lower-tier[clarification needed] status.

[2] Ontario's largest and smallest townships are Centre Wellington and Cockburn Island with populations of 26,693 and 0[N 1] respectively.

[4] Under this former legislation, a locality with a population of 1,000 or more could have been incorporated as a township by Ontario's Municipal Board upon review of an application from 75 or more residents of the locality.

[4] In the transition to the Municipal Act, 2001, these requirements were abandoned and, as at December 31, 2002, every township that:[5] The current legislation also provides lower and single-tier municipalities with the authority to name themselves as "townships", or other former municipal status types such as "cities", "towns" or "villages", or generically as "municipalities".