The Municipality of Huron East is a Canadian municipality located in Huron County, Ontario. It was formed in 2001 as an amalgamation of the former Grey, McKillop and Tuckersmith townships with the town of Seaforth and village of Brussels, due to an Ontario-wide local government restructuring imposed by the government of that time. The municipality is structured as five wards based on the former townships, town and village. Geography Huron East includes or borders on the following communities: Brucefield (borders with the Municipality of Bluewater) Brussels (borders with the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry) Cranbrook Egmondville Ethel Harpurhey Hensall (former village of Hensall is now under the Municipality of Bluewater) Kippen (borders with the Municipality of Bluewater) Leadbury Molesworth (borders with Perth County) Seaforth Vanastra (borders with the Municipality of Central Huron) Walton (borders on the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry) Winthrop St. Columban (borders with Perth County, half of St. Columban is in Huron County, the other half is in Perth County) Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Huron East had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. See also List of townships in Ontario References External links Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario Municipalities in Huron County, Ontario