A village is a sub-type of municipalities in the Canadian Province of Ontario. A village can have the municipal status of either a single-tier or lower-tier municipality.
Ontario has 11 villages that had a cumulative population of 13,558 and an average population of 1,233 in the 2011 Census. Ontario's largest and smallest villages are Casselman and Thornloe with populations of 3,626 and 123 respectively.
History
Under the former Municipal Act, 1990, a village was both an urban and a local municipality. Under this former legislation, a locality with a population of 500 or more could have been incorporated as a village by Ontario's Municipal Board upon review of an application from 75 or more residents of the locality.
In the transition to the Municipal Act, 2001, the above designations and requirements were abandoned and, as at December 31, 2002, every village that:
The current legislation also provides lower and single-tier municipalities with the authority to name themselves as "villages", or other former municipal status types such as "cities", "towns" or "townships", or generically as "municipalities".