 The municipality also includes the smaller communities of Donald, Eagle Lake, Fort Irwin, Goulds, Harburn, Kennaway (ghost town), Kennisis Lake and West Guilford.In the 1860s, the Canadian Land and Emigration Company of London, England purchased in this part of Ontario for settlement purposes.The development was named after company chairman Judge Thomas Haliburton, a politician and the author of the Sam Slick stories.