Halton (Ontario) Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
regional municipality in Ontario, Canada
About Halton (Ontario)
Halton County is named after Major William Mathew Halton, a British Army officer, who was appointed in England in 1805 as Secretary to Upper Canada Lieutenant-Governor Sir Francis Gore and spent little time in Canada during his posting (served two terms 1806-1811 and 1815-1816). European settlers started to arrive in the area in the early 1780s. The south was first settled by United Empire Loyalists, and the north was settled mainly by immigrants from the British Isles. In 1788, the area became part of the Nassau District, which was renamed the Home District in 1792. The lands that eventually formed part of Halton were acquired from the Mississauga First Nation (Indigenous) people through a series of land surrenders between 1795 and 1818.
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