| Bishop's Mills | |
| Settlement Type: | Compact rural community |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Ontario |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Bishop's Mills in Southern Ontario |
| Coordinates: | 44.8736°N -75.7044°W |
| Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | United Counties of Leeds and Grenville |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | North Grenville |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Founder: | Chauncey Bishop, Ira Bishop |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
| Elevation M: | 106 |
| Population Total: | 135 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | Eastern Time Zone |
| Utc Offset1: | -5 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | Eastern Time Zone |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | -4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | K0G 1T0 |
| Area Codes: | 613, 343 |
Bishop's Mills is a community in the municipality of North Grenville, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, in eastern Ontario, Canada, approximately 80km (50miles) south of Ottawa, south of Kemptville and east of Merrickville. An unincorporated place and Compact Rural Community, it has a population of about 135 and is the home of the Bishops Mills Natural History Centre.[3]
The village name is derived from a grist mill and a saw mill built on a branch of the Rideau River, today called the North Branch of Kemptville Creek, by Chauncey Bishop (1796 - 1877) and his brother, Ira (1803 - 1883).[4] Descended from Loyalists originally from Connecticut, Chauncey and Ira founded Bishop's Mills in the 1840s on land acquired from King's College, now the University of Toronto. This land was part of Lot 2 and 3, 9th Concession of Oxford Township, Grenville County, in what was then known as Upper Canada. A surveyed village plan was registered in 1885.
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