Summary for Canton

Although we found mention of Canton during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Over time, we expect to discover additional information that will be added to our Gazetteer..

About Canton (Click for our profile page)

Time Zone: Canton lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) The time zone in French: EST- Heure Normale de l'Est (HNE), EDT- Heure Avancée de l'Est (HAE).

GPS Coordinates (Latitude/Longitude)<2>

For the purpose of mapping and calculating distances, we have chosen the following reference point for Canton:

Lat: 43.997500° (or 43°59'51" N)

Lon: -78.350800° (or -78°21'2" W)

About Ontario

Websites for Province of Ontario

Official Website: https://www.ontario.ca/

Tourism: https://www.ontariotravel.net/

Parks: https://www.ontarioparks.ca/

Fishing: https://www.ontario.ca/page/fishing

Hunting: https://www.ontario.ca/page/hunting

Footnotes ...

<1>

If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Canton and then turned west". While Canton could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Canton as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Canton could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

Since confusion between is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Ontario community named Canton.

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Longitude & latitude values may not be the geographic center of Canton, rather it may be a prominent intersection or the center of population, etc. It will vary depending on the source.