The Municipality of Huron East is a Canadian municipality located in Huron County, Ontario. It was formed in 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.
Geography
Communities
Besides the town of Seaforth and the village of Brussels, the municipality of Huron East comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including:
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
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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.