Chandos was named after Richard Grenville, the third Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

Surveyed: winter of 1861-62, by James Fitzgerald

Survey Type: 1000 acre section

First legal settler: 1862

Township history:

    Cole, Jean Murray - The Loon Calls - Twp of Chandos (1989) ISBN 0-9694126-0-6

Municipal Records:

            For records 1864 to 1894 see Burleigh Anstruther Chandos

            For records after 1998 see North Kawartha

            Municipal records were destroyed by fire in 1914, and ten years of records were lost in a river in 1935. Unless otherwise noted, all the records below are in the North Kawartha Twp records in the Trent Valley Archives. A finding aid to these records is available.

Births              1949 May 2 - 1958 Dec 28, 1984 Nov 1

Marriages       1949 May 26 - 1949 Jul 1

Deaths            1949 Jul 26 - 1997 Sep 27

Assessment Rolls      1902, 1904, 1937, 1940, 1945-50, 1952, 1956-64, 1973

Collector Rolls          1956-66

Non-Resident Collector Rolls: 1894-1908, 1912, 1923, 1930, 1932-1940 PCMA

Schools           There is a book of information on school rates and amounts payable from the township to the school sections from 1935 to 1968. There are two school censuses (1938 and 1939) naming the children by School Section.

Overseer of Highways            1878-84          PCMA: 93-031 (photocopy)

1858 Jun 30    New Chandos Twp attached to Peterborough County (Cap 14)

1863 Nov 18   Chandos attached to Belmont & Methuen (Bylaw 228)

1864 Jun 24    Chandos detached from Belmont & Methuen (Bylaw 228)

1864 Jun 24    Formation of United Township of Burleigh, Anstruther, Chandos, Cardiff, Monmouth, Harecourt, and Bruton (County Bylaw 228)

1874 Mar 24   Cardiff, Monmouth, Harecourt, and Bruton removed to new Provisional County of Haliburton. (37 Vic Cap 65 p 469))

1893 Jun 18    Chandos separated from Township of Burleigh Anstruther Chandos, effective 1894 Jan 1 (County Bylaw 688)

1914                Fire destroys township records

1998 Jan 1      Burleigh Anstruther Twp and Chandos Twp re-united into Burleigh Anstruther Chandos Twp

1999 Dec 22   name changed from Burleigh Anstruther Chandos Twp to North Kawartha Twp