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Canton Township (commonly known simply as Canton) is a charter township in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A western suburb of Detroit, Canton is located roughly 23 miles (37.0 km) west of downtown Detroit, and 15 miles (24.1 km) east of Ann Arbor.
Canton, like Nankin and Peking townships, was named after a city in China. Washington D.C. had decreed that names for new townships could not use an existing name. As a result of the nation's fascination with China a number of townships adopted Chinese provinces and city names.
Jun 5, 2017 · It’s a question that shouldn’t be too difficult to answer — one might think. But while recently sleuthing and endeavoring to learn more about the old iron bridge that inspired Canton’s name, this so-called engineer/historian has uncovered a host of conflicting facts, dates, and fanciful tales.
Canton was named after a city in China due in part to the enhanced trade relations the United States had with China at that time. Canton was and continues to be governed by a Board of Trustees. In 1874 the first township hall was built on the corner of Canton Center and Cherry Hill Roads.
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- Bombay is now Mumbai. The big city in the state of Maharashtra, India was called Kakamuchee and Galajunkja in ancient times. In the Middle Ages, it was referred to as Manbai.
- Canton is now Guangzhou. The city of Guangzhou, China was founded under the name Panyu in 214 BC. Four hundred years later, it was named the capital of Guang prefecture and people began to call the city Guangzhou, which literally means Guang prefecture.
- Saigon is now Hồ Chà Minh City. The original name of the Kmer village that eventually became Saigon was Prey Nokor. The earliest reference to the name Sà i Gòn was in 1698, as the village was taken from Cambodia by the Vietnamese.
- St. Petersburg is now St. Petersburg (again) The original name of the small Russian town that became St. Petersburg is long gone, but it was only a tiny village before the Tsar arrived.
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For those of you that don’t know, Canton is a charter township located east of Ann Arbor and west of Detroit, it’s 36.14 square miles in size with a population of around 100,000 people. The question that often arises is, why do people want to live there? And why do people want to leave there? Let’s get to it.
