Nepean Township

On 13 September 1793, the deputy surveyor, John Stegman of York (Toronto), was instructed to survey four townships, north of the counties of Leeds and Grenville, which he designated A, B, C and D. Later they were known as Osgoode, Gloucester, North Gower and Nepean. “D” was Nepean, named after Sir Evan Nepean, secretary for Ireland. It was formed into a township in 1798 [Burns 1981]. When Bytown was incorporated as a town in 1847, all municipal relations ended with the township of Nepean and the council of the district of Dalhousie, but since Bytown was not a city, it continued to pay its share of the annual district expenditures [Brault 1946].