Loring, Port Loring and District, Ontario

Loring, Port Loring and District is a local services board in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Parry Sound District, and by extension, the Almaguin Highlands region.

The board administers services in the geographic townships of Blair, East Mills and Wilson and parts of the geographic townships of Hardy, McConkey and Pringle, including the communities of Arnstein, Bear Valley, Ess Narrows Landing, Fleming's Landing, Golden Valley, Loring, Port Loring and Spring Creek. The ghost town of Lost Channel is also located within the board's jurisdictional area.

Loring was named in 1884 by Member of Parliament William Edward O'Brien after his wife's maiden name, and the nearby community of Port Loring was named in 1922 for its position on the shore of Wauquimakog Lake in the Pickerel River system. Historically, Port Loring was an important logging centre. Currently, the community is known for its tourism industry, which is focused primarily on camping, deer hunting, fishing and snowmobiling. Along with the nearby community of Restoule, the area promotes itself as the Loring-Restoule tourist area.

Arnstein was named in 1887 by postmaster William Brunne after a village in Bavaria, Germany, 20 km north of Wurzburg.

Blair Township was named in 1878 after Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair (1815–67), a son of Adam Fergusson, the founder of Fergus. He has assumed the name Blair on coming into the possession of an estate in Scotland. Blair was the member for Waterloo in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 1849–54, and for Wellington-South, 1854–57, and was member for Brock on the Legislative Council, 1860–67. Appointed to the Senate in 1867, he was president of the Privy Council in John A. Macdonald's first post-Confederation cabinet.

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