March Township, Ontario

According to the Canada 2001 Census, the Township had a population of approximately 26,650.

The township took its name from the subsidiary title of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, the Earl of March.

Early settlers in the area included Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey and Doctor Alexander James Christie.

Long before the Royal Military College of Canada was established in 1876, retired British navy and army officers who had settled in March township, proposed a military college boarding school for boys on the Great Lakes on naval and military lines in 1826.

Berry, brewer; George I McMurtry tanner, saddle and harness maker; William Boucher, saw mill proprietor; D Munroe, hotel keeper; Horace Pinhey, saw mill owner and D. McMurtry, general merchant.