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The United Townships of Dysart, Bruton, Clyde, Dudley, Eyre, Guilford, Harburn, Harcourt and Havelock (shortened to Dysart et al or Dysart and others) is a township in Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada. The townships were of the Canadian Land and Emigration Company.

Communities

The township's primary centre is Haliburton, a community on Head Lake. Haliburton has a tourism-based economy. Some of southern Ontario's population retreats to central and northern Ontario "cottage country" for recreation during the summer.

Haliburton Village and Haliburton County derive their name from the author Thomas Chandler Haliburton, who wrote the popular "Sam Slick" stories back in the mid 1800's. Haliburton was chairman of the Board of Directors of The British Land and Immigration Company in England, who were responsible for developing most of the area before it became incorporated into a "Provisional County" in 1887.

The township also includes the smaller communities of Donald, Eagle Lake, Fort Irwin, Goulds, Harburn, Kennaway, Kennisis Lake and West Guilford.

Education

The County of Haliburton is part of the Trillium Lakelands District School Board.

Elementary

  • Stuart W. Baker Elementary School (French Immersion) - Grades K - 4
  • J. Douglas Hodgson Elementary School - Grades 4 - 8

Secondary

  • Haliburton Highlands Secondary School

Post-Secondary

Adult Education

Notable people and references

NHL player Ron Stackhouse hails from Haliburton, and Bernie Nicholls hails from West Guilford. The local arena has mural paintings of the two on the outside wall.

Haliburton appears as a significant setting in Canadian literature. Examples include Richard Pope's Me n Len - Life in the Haliburton Bush and Robert Rotenberg's Old City Hall.

Demographics

According to the 2006 Statistics Canada Census:

  • Population: 5,526
  • % Change (2001-2006): 12.2
  • Dwellings: 6,861
  • Area (km².): 1,474.07
  • Density (persons per km².): 3.7


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