page_title: Township (Canada)
section_title: Atlantic Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Township (Canada) / Atlantic Canada
caption_attribution_description: English: Onslow Township marker sign, Nova Scotia
context_page_description: The term township, in Canada, is generally the district or area associated with a town. The specific use of the term to describe political subdivisions has varied by country, usually to describe a local rural or semirural government within the country itself.
  In Eastern Canada, a township is one form of the subdivision of a county. In Quebec, the term is canton in French.
context_section_description: The historic colony of Nova Scotia (present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) used the term township as a subdivision of counties and as a means of attracting settlers to the colony. In Prince Edward Island, the colonial survey of 1764 established 67 townships, known as lots, and 3 royalties, which were grouped into parishes and hence into counties; the townships were geographically and politically the same. In New Brunswick, parishes have taken over as the present-day subdivision of counties, and present-day Nova Scotia uses districts as appropriate.
caption: Historical township boundaries are of interest in Atlantic Canada especially by those conducting genealogical research.
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