Minto
Minto is a town in midwestern Ontario, Canada, on the Maitland River in Wellington County. Minto is the western terminus of Highway 9. It is named for Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto; 8th Governor General of Canada.- Type: Municipality with 8,670 residents
- Description: town in Wellington County, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Minto, Ontario” and “Town of Minto”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Mary Church and Norwell District Secondary School.
Norwell District Secondary School
School
Norwell District Secondary School, formerly known as Palmerston High School, and often simply called Norwell or NDSS, is a mid-sized composite high school located in Palmerston, Ontario.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Palmerston and Harriston.
Palmerston
Town
Palmerston is an unincorporated community with a population of 2,599 on the southern edge of Minto in the northwestern part of Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.
Harriston
Town
Harriston is a community in the Town of Minto in Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. In 1999, Harriston was amalgamated with the communities of Palmerston, Clifford, and Minto Township to form the Town of Minto.
Gowanstown
Hamlet
Gowanstown is a community in Southwestern Ontario. It is a part of the town of North Perth in Perth County. It is located around the intersection of Perth Road 164 and Perth Line 88 The population of Gowanstown is approximately 200.
Minto
- Categories: town, lower-tier municipality of Ontario, and locality
- Location: Minto, Wellington and Dufferin Counties, Southwestern Ontario, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude
43.83413° or 43° 50′ 3″ north
Longitude
-80.84768° or 80° 50′ 52″ west
Population
8,670
Elevation
387 metres (1,270 feet)
Open location code
86MXR5M2+MW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipality
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Minto” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مينتو”
- Asturian: “Minto”
- Cebuano: “Minto”
- Chinese: “棉圖”
- Chinese: “棉圖鎮”
- Dutch: “Minto”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مينتو”
- French: “Minto”
- German: “Minto, Ontario”
- German: “Minto”
- Japanese: “ミント”
- Persian: “مینتو، انتاریو”
- Persian: “مینتو”
- Polish: “Minto”
- Serbian: “Минто”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Minto”
- Spanish: “Minto”
- Swedish: “Minto, Ontario”
- Swedish: “Minto”
- Turkish: “Minto”
- Urdu: “منٹو، اونٹاریو”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Royal Canadian Legion Hall and Canada Post.
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