Litchfield Township (spelled "Licthfield" on the Gale and Duberger map of 1795) was officially created in 1834. It was probably named after
Lichfield, an English town in
Staffordshire, north of Birmingham. On November 20, 1846, the township was incorporated with Alfred Lancaster as its first mayor. It was abolished the next year and became part of the Ottawa County Municipality. It was reestablished in 1855. followed by
Bryson in 1873, and by
Campbell's Bay in 1904. Because Bryson was located in the narrowest part of the municipality, between
L'Île-du-Grand-Calumet and
Clarendon, it separated the municipality's territory in two. In 1964, the Pontiac County Council (now Pontiac MRC) built its headquarters in Litchfield on
Quebec Route 148 at the edge of Campbell's Bay. On November 6, 2004, the Township Municipality of Litchfield changed its status to become the Municipality of Litchfield. ==Demographics==