Fitzroy Township
geographic township in Ontario, Canada
Fitzroy is a former incorporated and present day geographic township originally part of Carleton County in eastern Ontario, Canada.
Fitzroy was located in the western part of the county, bordered to the northeast by Torbolton Township, to the southeast by Huntley Township, to the southwest by Pakenham Township and to the northwest by the Ottawa River.
The township was established in 1823. The first permanent settler is believed to have been Charles Shirreff around 1818. Shirreff founded the settlement of Fitzroy Harbour in 1831. The township was an important centre of the timber trade during the 19th century. In 1974, the township was amalgamated with Huntley and Torbolton to form West Carleton. In 2001, West Carleton became part of the new city of Ottawa.
Fitzroy took its name from Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, son-in-law to
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond who was Governor General of British North America from 1818 to 1819.
According to the Canada 2016 Census, the Township had a population of 4,413.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Fitzroy Township” is geographic township in Ontario, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fitzroy, Township and geographic, not as a finished interpretation.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5455722. Authority coordinates are 45.400, -76.183. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1823, 1818, 1831 and 1974.
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This entry incorporates text from “Fitzroy Township” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.