While not an administrative unit, Alberta and Saskatchewan do have numbered township and range roads in rural areas based on the old Dominion Land Survey. Township 1 is the first north of the First Base Line, and the numbers increase to the north. Townships are designated by their township number and range number. These townships are nominally six miles by six miles (36 square miles, or roughly 93 km 2). In Western Canada, townships exist only for the purpose of land division by the Dominion Land Survey and do not form administrative units.In Canada, a municipality is a city, town, township, county, or regional municipality which has been incorporated by statute by the legislatures of the provinces and territories. Townships are referred to as "lots" in Prince Edward Island they merely form census subdivisions and are not administrative units. In Eastern Canada, a township is one form of the subdivision of a county.In Canada, two kinds of township occur in common use.
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