Esquesing Township was a municipality within the historic Halton County in Ontario, Canada. It is today a geographic township in the town of Halton Hills...

the Nassau District, which was renamed the Home District in 1792. Esquesing Township (area 66,700 acres (104 sq mi; 270 km2)). Opened in 1819, the first...

purchased land that later became the townships of Esquesing and Nassagaweya. The task of laying out the townships fell to Timothy Street and Abraham Nelles...

mills, tanneries, glove makers and carriage works. Originally part of Esquesing Township, Acton's principal trade was in grain, lumber, cordwood, leather and...

Canadian lawyer, businessman and cabinet minister. He was born in Esquesing Township (today part of Halton Hills, Ontario), the third child of Northern...

the 1820s. Esquesing Township, of which the greatest part went to form Halton Hills, was favourably described in 1846: This is a fine township, containing...

square kilometres (10 sq mi) of agricultural land in southwestern Esquesing Township. Sixteen Mile Creek flows through the settlement, and the present-day...

Peninsula in Louth Township. Joseph Hilts' sons later received land grants, with William Hilts receiving one in Esquesing Township, and Edward Thompson...

settlement was part of The Scotch Block, a large agricultural area in Esquesing Township occupied primarily by Scottish immigrants. A cemetery is located west...

un-ne-mo-sah (possibly meaning "black dog", "dead dog", or simply "dog"). Esquesing Township: Mississauga Anishinaabe word ishkwessin, meaning "that which lies...