Blackwater, Ontario

Brock
Township (lower-tier)
Township of Brock
Beaverton
Coat of arms
Brock Location of Brock in southern Ontario
Coordinates: 44°19′N 79°05′W / 44.317°N 79.083°W / 44.317; -79.083Coordinates: 44°19′N 79°05′W / 44.317°N 79.083°W / 44.317; -79.083
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Region	Durham
Incorporated	1974
Government
• Mayor	John Grant
Area
• Total	423.73 km2 (163.60 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	11,642
• Density	27/km2 (71/sq mi)
Website	www.townshipofbrock.ca

Brock is a township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. Brock Township is also a former municipality and geographic township prior to the amalgamation that formed the current municipality.

The Trent-Severn Waterway forms part of the northern border of the municipality, which enters Lake Simcoe through Ramara Township. There are five locks in Brock. Thorah Island in Lake Simcoe is within the municipal boundaries of Brock.

The original Brock Township was surveyed in 1817 as part of York County and the first meetings were held in 1833. The township was originally named for Major General Sir Isaac Brock (1769–1812) whose estate received free land here for his service in the War of 1812. William Bagshaw became Brock's first Postmaster and Justice of the Peace in 1819 when he owned property on Lot 5 Concession 9. Other early, settler ancestors included names like: Acton, Charters, Dusto, Purvis, Rundle, Bagshaw, Doble, Phair, St. John, Umphrey, Brethour, Doyle, Fallowdown, Ruddy and Vrooman (for whom the semi-ghost town of Vroomanton was named).

In 1852, the Township became part of the newly created Ontario County. In 1878, Cannington was incorporated as a village and was no longer part of the Township for municipal purposes.

In 1974, as part of the municipal restructuring around the creation of the Regional Municipality of Durham, Brock was amalgamated with Thorah Township and the villages of Beaverton and Cannington to form the new Township of Brock.

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