The Township of Alice (now part of Laurentian Valley) was officially surveyed and opened in 1855, emerging on the eastern fringe of Renfrew County out of Ontario’s mid‑19th‑century settler .

Its northern boundary ran along the Ottawa River, with a concession‐grid layout connecting rural homesteads, riverfront parcels, and sideroads—a scheme familiar to surveyors of that era .

Early economic activity mirrored that of neighbouring townships: clearing forest east of Stafford for mixed farming and small‐scale lumber operations. The Locksley post office, established in 1869, became a community anchor for surrounding concessions

By the late 1800s, detailed pioneer‐settler maps recorded individual lot grants and road allowances—vital resources today for tracing historical property lines and land‑use decisions. These early cadastral records laid the groundwork for today’s parcel mapping systems.

In 2000, Alice Township was amalgamated with Fraser and Stafford‐Pembroke to form the modern Township of Laurentian Valley, reshaping municipal boundaries though the original concession and lot patterns remain foundational to how land parcels are now surveyed and legally defined.

From a surveyor’s perspective, Alice Township embodies a classic mid‑19th‑century Ontario land‑division model: rectangular concessions, sideroad networks, post offices marking nodes of settlement, and original lot boundaries still reflected in today’s parcel fabric. Its transition into Laurentian Valley was a bureaucratic change—but the historic grid still frames modern surveying practice.