Dufferin County is a county and census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is Orangeville, and the current Warden is Mayor Gord Montgomery of Mulmur Township, Ontario. The Current Chief Administrative Officer is Linda J. Dean. Dufferin covers an area of 359,812 acres (562 sq mi; 1,456 km), and its population is 54,436 (2006). The county gets its name from the Marquess of Dufferin, who was Governor General of Canada betwe...
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Dufferin County is a county and census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is Orangeville, and the current Warden is Mayor Gord Montgomery of Mulmur Township, Ontario. The Current Chief Administrative Officer is Linda J. Dean. Dufferin covers an area of 359,812 acres (562 sq mi; 1,456 km), and its population is 54,436 (2006). The county gets its name from the Marquess of Dufferin, who was Governor General of Canada between 1872-1878.
Dufferin County is the highest plateau immediately west of Georgian Bay, and as such forms the watershed between the four lakes: Huron, Erie, Ontario and Simcoe. Four rivers — Saugeen, Grand, Credit and Nottawasaga — take their rise in Dufferin or in adjacent townships and drain through the county.
The county is a lofty table-land that is about 1,700 feet (518 m) above sea-level and about 1,400 feet (427 m) above the level of downtown Toronto. A continuation of the Caledon Mountains skirts the eastern side of the county. The...
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