Laxton, Digby and Longford Township

The united Townships of Laxton, Digby and Longford were a municipality in the northern part of what is now Kawartha Lakes in the Canadian province of Ontario.

The former Township of Longford, was surveyed in 1861 by Brookes Wright Gossage, as one of ten townships sold to the Canadian Land and Emigration Company. Longford was the only one of the townships within Victoria County. In 1867 John Thomson purchased by auction the right to cut timber in the township, from the Canadian Land and Emigration Company, to supply timber for his mill at Longford Mills, named for the township. Thomson later purchased the township outright from the Company.

The former township should not be confused with the extant Longford Township, a township wholly owned by Longford Reserve Limited, and contains no permanent inhabitants. The extant township is adjacent to the former (populated) township.

The old Digby fire tower was situated on rocky outcropping straight north of the village of Uphill, where the old fire trail used to exist, along the former alignment of the Victoria Rd. The tower was de-commissioned in the late 1960s. The area now is mostly swamp, but can be accessed on a newer private road to the west.

The township is also home to a few ghost settlements from the bygone logging/ farming era of the 19th century. These include: Ragged Rapids and the eastern part of Uphill.

Communities

• Norland
• Sadowa (dispersed community, previously shared with adjoining Dalton Township, another former township merged into Kawartha Lakes)
• Uphill (dispersed community, previously shared with adjoining Dalton Township, another former township merged into Kawartha Lakes)

See also

• List of townships in Ontario

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City of Kawartha Lakes

City seat: Lindsay

Towns

• Lindsay

Villages and
unincorporated
communities

• Ancona Point
• Argyle
• Avery Point
• Baddow
• Baker Trail
• Ballyduff
• Barclay
• Bellevue
• Bethany
• Bethel
• Bobcaygeon¹
• Bolsover
• Burnt River
• Burton
• Cambray
• Cameron
• Coboconk
• Dalrymple
• Dartmoor
• Daytonia Beach
• Dongola
• Downeyville
• Dunsford
• Emily
• Eldon Station
• Feir Mill
• Fenelon Falls
• Fowlers Corners
• Fleetwood
• Glenarm
• Greenhurst-Thurstonia
• Hartley
• Head Lake
• Janetville
• Kinmount¹
• Kirkfield
• Little Britain
• Long Beach
• Long Point
• Lorneville
• Manilla¹
• Manvers Station
• Mariposa Station
• Mariposa
• Norland
• Oakwood
• Omemee
• Pontypool
• Ragged Rapids
• Rokeby
• Rosedale
• Sadowa
• St. Mary's
• Sebright
• Sturgeon Point
• Uphill
• Valentia
• Verulam Park
• Victoria Road
• View Lake
• Woodville

Former townships

• Bexley
• Carden
• Dalton
• Laxton, Digby and Longford
• Eldon
• Emily
• Fenelon
• Manvers
• Mariposa
• Ops
• Somerville
• Verulam

Major lakes

Trent River	Shadow Lake Silver Lake Four Mile Lake Balsam Lake Cameron Lake Sturgeon Lake Lake Scugog Pigeon Lake
Talbot River	Canal Lake Mitchell Lake Talbot Lake
Severn River	Lake Dalrymple Cranberry Lake Head Lake Fishog Lake

Topics

• List of roads
• Victoria County

1) This area lies on the border of an adjacent region, but is part of the Kawartha Lakes census.