Editing Cavan Monaghan (section)

==History==
The original townships of Cavan and Monaghan were surveyed by John Deyell in 1817, and were named after [[County Cavan]] and [[County Monaghan]] in [[Ireland]], from which many of its settlers had emigrated. By 1819, there were 244 settlers, and by 1861 the population had risen to 4,901, many of whom were descendants of [[United Empire Loyalists]], veterans of the [[War of 1812]] who had been granted land there, or the original and later settlers from Ireland. After [[Canadian Confederation|Confederation]] in 1867, the population began to drop as many families left for Western Canada.<ref name=histsoc>{{cite web |title=Home page |url=http://www.kawartha.net/~mchs/mchs.htm |publisher=Millbrook and Cavan Historical Society |access-date=2009-05-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513052212/http://www.kawartha.net/~mchs/mchs.htm |archive-date=2009-05-13 }}</ref>

The original Irish settlers were [[Protestants]], and many of them were associated with the [[Orange Institution|Orange Order]]. In the mid-19th century the "Cavan Blazers" were established as a fiercely Protestant vigilante group, who often burned down the farms of Catholic settlers.<ref name=histsoc />

The Township of Cavan and the Village of Millbrook, previously part of [[Durham County, Ontario|Durham County]], in 1974 became part of Peterborough County, and were amalgamated, along with North Monaghan, into one township — Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan — in 1998. In 2007, the township was renamed Cavan Monaghan,<ref>{{cite web|title= By-law Number 2007-19|url= http://www.cmnm.ca/2007%20By-Laws/By-Law%202007-19%20Name%20Change%20By-Law.pdf|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930065800/http://www.cmnm.ca/2007%20By-Laws/By-Law%202007-19%20Name%20Change%20By-Law.pdf|url-status= dead|archive-date= 2007-09-30|publisher= Corporation of the Township of Cavan Millbrook=North Monaghan|date= 2007-04-02|access-date= 2009-05-08}}</ref> as many thought the older name was too long.