Those boundaries had originally been set by a statute of Upper Canada in 1798: That the townships of Clarence, Cumberland, Gloucester, Osgoode, Russell and Cambridge, with such of the Islands in the river Ottawa as are wholly or in greater part opposite thereto, shall constitute and form the County of Russell.

[4]Since Russell was not changed by the Union Act, those boundaries continued to be used for the new electoral district.

[9] It was succeeded by two electoral districts named Russell, one in the House of Commons of Canada[10] and one in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

[11] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Proclamation, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, July 16, 1792.

This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: An act for the better division of this province, SUC 1798, c. 5, s. 5.