Sydenham, Grey County, Ontario

The area is bounded on the north side by Owen Sound, a large inlet of Georgian Bay.

[1] Sydenham Township was surveyed in 1842, with concessions running north to south, and at that time the land consisted mainly of hardwood forest.

[1] Immigrants from Scotland and Ireland began to settle this area at about this time.

[2] Sydenham Township included the villages of Leith, Annan, Hoath Head, Bognor, Balaclava, and Woodford.

However, in April 2015, efforts to de-amalgamate, citing an unacceptable tax rise and a propensity to "focus all municipal resources on the urban infrastructure of the former town of Meaford" as reasonings,[5] have been heard by the Meaford Council.