Huron East is a municipality in Huron County, Ontario, Canada. It was formed on January 1, 2001, as an amalgamation of the former Grey, McKillop and Tuckersmith townships with the town of Seaforth and village of Brussels, due to an Ontario-wide local government restructuring imposed by the government of that time. The municipality is structured as five wards based on the former townships, town and village.
In January 2022, then eighteen-year-old Justin Morrison became the youngest person in the history of Huron East to become a municipal councillor.
Geography Communities Besides the town of Seaforth and the village of Brussels, the municipality of Huron East comprises a number of villages and hamlets.
Former Grey Township:
Brussels Cranbrook Ethel Molesworth Walton Henfryn Ethel Siding Jamestown McNaught Moncrieff Silver Corners
Former McKillop Township:
St. Columban Seaforth Winthrop Leadbury Dublin Beachwood Manley Roxboro Slabtown
Former Tuckersmith Township:
Brucefield Egmondville Harpurhey Hensall Kippen Vanastra Clinton Chiselhurst
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Huron East had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
See also List of townships in Ontario
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