Thomas Magwood was a sheriff, an alderman and one of the founders of the local Children's Aid Society

One of the city’s few courts is named for Thomas Magwood (1851-1933), the third sheriff of Perth County, who served from 1907 until his retirement in 1928. Of Dutch heritage, he was two years old when his family arrived in Mornington Township. In later years, Magwood recalled how, in those early days in the “Queen’s Bush,” it was difficult to keep wolves away from the door — literally. Wolves were numerous, and they would look into the windows of the Magwood shanty and paw at the entrance.

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