Anne DelongThe Internet Archive is an invaluable resource for historians and genealogists.
Here, for example, is the 1846 Smith's Gazetteer of Canada West, which has a description of every town, township and village in Ontario at that time. May of the names have since changed.
https://archive.org/details/smithscanadianga00smit/page/n7/mode/2up
Smith's Canadian gazetteer : comprising statistical and general information respecting all parts of the upper province, or Canada West ... With a map of the upper province : Smith, William Henry, of Canada : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
2 p.L., ii, 285, [1] p., 1 L. : 22 cm