Specifically, the former township of East Wawanosh was merged with the village of Blyth and the town of Wingham.

Besides the town of Wingham and the village of Blyth, the township of North Huron comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including: Indigenous people's presence in North Huron has been recorded long before European settlers arrived in the 1830s.

Arrowheads and other indigenous artifacts have been found by East Wawanosh farmers since European settlement.

From the 1850s to 1960s, more than a dozen rural school houses educated the children of East Wawanosh.

[3] In 1967, East Wawanosh Public School was opened and taught hundreds of children from Kindergarten to Grade 8.