Frontenac County

For the former county in Quebec, see Frontenac County, Quebec.

Frontenac County
County (upper-tier)
County of Frontenac
Frontenac County Courthouse
Seal
Location of Frontenac County
Coordinates: 44°40′N76°42′W / 44.667°N 76.700°W / 44.667; -76.700
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Region	Eastern Ontario
County seat	Glenburnie
Municipalities	List Township of Central Frontenac Township of Frontenac Islands Township of North Frontenac Township of South Frontenac
Government
• Type	County
• Warden	Ron Vandewal
Area [1]
• Land	3,274.24 km2 (1,264.19 sq mi)
•  Census division	3,725.82 km2 (1,438.55 sq mi)
	Land area excludes Kingston
Population  (2021) [1]
• Total	29,295
• Density	8.9/km2 (23/sq mi)
•  Census division	161,780
•  Census division density	43.4/km2 (112/sq mi)
	Total excludes Kingston
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	613, 343
Website	www.frontenaccounty.ca

Frontenac County is a county and census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario. The city of Kingston is in the Frontenac census division, but is separated from the County of Frontenac.

History

Frontenac Colonization Road

The county of Frontenac, situated within the Mecklenburg District, was originally created as an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada in 1792 and its original limits were described as being:

bounded on the east by the westernmost line of the county of Leeds, on the south by Lake Ontario, to on the west by the easternmost boundary of the late township of Ernestown, and on the west by the easternmost boundary of the township of Fredericksburgh, running north twenty-four degrees west until it meets the Ottawa or Grand River, thence descending the said river until it meets the northwesternmost boundary of the said county of Leeds. ^[2]

Mecklenburg was renamed as the "Midland District" in 1792. ^[3]

At the beginning of 1800, the County was reorganized as follows: ^[4]

• the eastern part of the islands of the county of Ontario were transferred to Frontenac, on the former's dissolution
• Frontenac was declared to consist solely of the townships of Pittsburg, Kingston, Loughborough, Portland, Hinchbrooke, Bedford and Wolfe Island
• the remaining unorganized territory remained part of Midland District

Through the addition of newly surveyed townships, by 1845 the County covered the following territory:

the Townships of Bedford, Barrie, Clarendon, Hinchinbrooke, Kingston, Kennebec, Loughborough, Olden, Oso, Portland, Pittsburgh, which shall include Howe Island, Palmerston, Storrington, and Wolfe Island, and, except for the purposes of representation in the Legislative Assembly, the Town of Kingston. ^[5]

In 1860, the newly surveyed townships of Miller and Canonto were transferred from Renfrew County ^[6]

In 1998, the County was reorganized, and it now consists of the townships of North Frontenac, Central Frontenac, South Frontenac and Frontenac Islands. ^[7] The City of Kingston absorbed Kingston and Pittsburgh Townships and exists now as a separated municipality.

The county council itself was abolished and replaced by a management unit with limited powers, known as the Frontenac Management Board. ^[8] The management unit became a county again in 2004. ^{[9] [10]}

Demographics

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Frontenac County had a population of 161,780 living in 69,984 of its 80,226 total private dwellings, a change of 7.5% from its 2016 population of 150,480. With a land area of 3,725.82 km² (1,438.55 sq mi), it had a population density of 43.4/km² (112.5/sq mi) in 2021. ^[1]

Canada census – Frontenac census division community profile

	2021	2016	2011
Population	161,780 (+7.5% from 2016)	150,475 (+0.5% from 2011)	149,738 (4.1% from 2006)
Land area	3,725.82 km2 (1,438.55 sq mi)	3,787.76 km2 (1,462.46 sq mi)	3,787.79 km2 (1,462.47 sq mi)
Population density	43.4/km2 (112/sq mi)	39.7/km2 (103/sq mi)	39.5/km2 (102/sq mi)
Median age	43.2 (M: 41.6, F: 45.2)	43.6 (M: 41.9, F: 45.2)
Private dwellings	80,226 (total)  69,984 (occupied)	77,155 (total)  64,295 (occupied)	74,074 (total)
Median household income	$81,000	$69,432

Notes: Includes data for City of Kingston
References: 2021 ^[11] 2016 ^[12] 2011 ^[13] earlier ^{[14] [15]}

Historical census populations – Frontenac County

Year Pop. ±% 1921 44,494 —     1931 45,756 +2.8% 1941 53,717 +17.4% 1951 66,099 +23.1% 1956 76,534 +15.8% 1961 87,534 +14.4%	Year Pop. ±% 1966 97,138 +11.0% 1971 101,692 +4.7% 1976 108,052 +6.3% 1981 108,133 +0.1% 1986 115,221 +6.6% 1991 129,089 +12.0%	Year Pop. ±% 1996 136,365 +5.6% 2001 138,606 +1.6% 2006 143,865 +3.8% 2011 149,753 +4.1% 2016 150,475 +0.5% 2021 161,780 +7.5%
Includes City of Kingston. Population counts are not adjusted for boundary changes. Source: Statistics Canada [1] [16]

Education

Further information: List of secondary schools in Ontario § Frontenac County

Children attend schools part of the Limestone District School Board, based in the City of Kingston.

See also

• List of municipalities in Ontario
• List of Ontario Census Divisions
• Kingston Frontenac Public Library
• K&P Rail Trail
• List of townships in Ontario

References

1. "Frontenac, County (CTY) Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
2. Proclamation of July 16, 1792
3. An act for building a gaol and court house in every district within this province, and for altering the names of the said districts , S.U.C. 1792, c. 8, s. 3
4. An act for the better division of this province , S.U.C. 1798, c. 5, s. 11-12, 14, 18
5. An Act for better defining the limits of the Counties and Districts in Upper Canada, for erecting certain new Townships, for detaching Townships from some Counties and attaching them to others, and for other purposes relative to the division of Upper Canada into Townships, Counties and Districts , S.Prov.C. 1845, c. 7, Sch. B
6. An Act to amend "An Act respecting the Territorial Division of Upper Canada" , S.Prov.C. 1860, c. 39, s. 2
7. Restructured municipalities - Ontario map #5 (Map). Restructuring Maps of Ontario. Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. 2006. Archived from the original on 2020-05-11. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
8. "Frontenac County: One of the players remembers amalgamation talks". Frontenac News. February 4, 2015.
9. Division of Ontario into Geographic Areas , O. Reg. 418/03 , s. 1
10. Green, Jeff (March 28, 2018). "Frontenac County to look at building a new office with Cataraqui Region Conservation". Frontenac News.
11. "2021 Community Profiles". 2021 Canadian census . Statistics Canada. February 4, 2022. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
12. "2016 Community Profiles". 2016 Canadian census . Statistics Canada. August 12, 2021. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
13. "2011 Community Profiles". 2011 Canadian census . Statistics Canada. March 21, 2019. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
14. "2006 Community Profiles". 2006 Canadian census . Statistics Canada. August 20, 2019.
15. "2001 Community Profiles". 2001 Canadian census . Statistics Canada. July 18, 2021.
16. "1971 Census of Canada - Population Census Subdivisions (Historical)". Catalogue 92-702 Vol I, part 1 (Bulletin 1.1-2). Statistics Canada: 76, 139. July 1973.

• Rollaston, Brian, ed. County of a Thousand Lakes: The History of the County of Frontenac. Kingston: County of Frontenac, 1982.
• Ross, Alec & John De Visser. Kingston and Frontenac County. Erin ON: Boston Mills Press, 2009.
• Meacham, J.H. Illustrated Historical Atlas of Frontenac, Lennox, and Addington Counties. Toronto, 1878; reprint ed., Belleville: Mika, 1971.

External links

• Official website