| County of Victoria | |||||||||
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| County of Canada | |||||||||
| 1863–2001 | |||||||||
 A historic map of Victoria County, published in 1881. | |||||||||
| Capital | Lindsay, Ontario | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Democracy | ||||||||
| Warden | |||||||||
• 1863 | Patrick McHugh (first) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Separation from the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria | 1863 | ||||||||
• Withdrawal of seven townships to the District of Muskoka | 1868 (detached), 1877 (withdrawn) | ||||||||
• Withdrawal of three townships to the Provisional County of Haliburton | 1874 | ||||||||
• Manvers Township ceded from Durham County | 1973 | ||||||||
• Amalgamated to form the City of Kawartha Lakes, as a result of the Common Sense Revolution | 2001 | ||||||||
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The County of Victoria, or Victoria County, was a county in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was formed in 1854 as The United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, and separated from Peterborough in 1863. In 2001, the county was dissolved and reformed as the city of Kawartha Lakes. While British settlement began in 1821, the area that was encompassed by Victoria County had already been inhabited by First Nations, including by the Wendat.