Map of Upper Canada Identifying its districts, counties and townships (1818)
Established
1798
Dissolved
1849
The London District was a historic
district in
Upper Canada. It was formed in 1798 from parts of the
Home and
Western Districts, and lasted until its abolition in 1850.
Historic evolution
The District was formed by an Act of the
Parliament of Upper Canada in 1798, and was described as consisting of
...the Counties of
Norfolk,
Oxford and
Middlesex with so much of this Province as lies to the Westward of the
Home District, and the
District of Niagara, to the Southward of
Lake Huron, and between them and a line drawn due north of a fixed boundary (where the easternmost limit of the township of Oxford intersects the
River Thames till it arrives at Lake Huron...[1]
The
Huron Tract, being developed at the time by the
Canada Company, was divided between the London and
Western Districts in 1835, with the greater part of the territory in the London District forming the new
Huron County.[6] That County was later withdrawn in October 1841 to form the new
Huron District.[7]
the triangular piece of land adjoining the said tract in the proposed District of Huron[13]
part of the late purchase from the Indians of Gore,[14] and part of Indian lands[15][16]
In 1845, the District was restricted in area to cover Middlesex County only.[17] thus detaching the remainder of its northern part extending to Lake Huron. This was rectified by the territory's attachment to Huron District in 1846.[18]
^the sum of which was surveyed into townships on either side of the
Garafraxa Road that was constructed in the period 1840-1848 to the new community of
Sydenham