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Prescott-Russell is a county in Eastern Ontario, a region of Ontario, a province in Canada.
Prescott-Russell is sometimes called "Prescott and Russell".
Prescott-Russell is officially called "Prescott and Russell United Counties" or "United Counties of Prescott and Russell" due to the fact that the county was once two separate counties: Russell County and Prescott County.
While First Nations tribes lived here thousands of years ago, the first European settlements in the area didn't arise until the 1700s, when the village of L'Orignal was built. However, many other villages weren't built up until the 1800s. For example, Embrun, Casselman and Russell were built in the mid-19th century.
