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Enhancing Status Through Incorporation

Suburban Municipalities in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

Nipissing University

Between 1853 and 1881, six suburban communities in the province of Ontario opted for municipal status. Incorporation permitted these communities to separate from the rural townships of which they were a part. By and large these rural townships, dominated by an almost exclusively agrarian population, tended to ignore the needs and wants of the more urban population within their borders. While these suburban communities were generally neglected by their rural neighbors, they were increasingly viewed by the cities they neighbored as targets for annexation. There was a general sense in Ontario during the 1880s that the amalgamation of suburb and city was inevitable. However, there was a prevailing sense that there was ultimately an ideal time for this occurrence and that until that time suburban government would ensure that the suburbs were able to develop as their ratepayers and councils saw fit.

Key Words: Ontario • suburbs • incorporation • nineteenth century • municipal

Journal of Urban History, Vol. 33, No. 6, 885-910 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0096144207304069


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