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Lount is a geographic township in the Unorganized Centre Part of Parry Sound District in Central Ontario, Canada.[1][2][3] The communities of Bummer’s Roost, Rye and Wattenwyle are located in the township. It originally was settled by the building of the Rosseau and Nipissing Road which cuts diagonally through the township.[2] Lount is part of the Almaguin Highlands region.
This township in Parry Sound District was named in 1874 for William Lount (1840-1903), Liberal member for Simcoe North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 1867–71, and for Toronto Centre in the House of Commons, 1896–7. He was subsequently appointed a judge in the High Court of Ontario. William Lount was a nephew of Samuel Lount, who led a party of reformers in the Rebellion of 1837 and was put to death the following year.
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The Almaguin Highlands covers over 8000 sq km and lies between the District of Muskoka and North Bay from the north and south and between Algonquin Park to Parry Sound from the east to the west.
The Almaguin Highlands are the westerly extension of the Algonquin Highlands of Central Ontario and form part of the Canadian Shield geological formation. Almaguin is situated in the Eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregion, which is predominately mixed woodlands, while the topography is hilly and dotted with crags, and interspersed with hundreds of lakes and rivers.
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