Perth.

Perth sits on the Tay River in eastern Ontario's Lanark County, where a 10 km branch of the Rideau Canal — the Tay Canal — connects the town basin to the main canal at Beveridges Lockstation on Lower Rideau Lake. The town was founded in 1816 as a Crown military settlement for disbanded British soldiers and Scottish-Irish settlers, and the limestone downtown core radiating from Stewart Park along Wilson, Gore, and Foster streets is preserved as an Ontario Heritage Act Heritage Conservation District.

Code's Mill on the Park, the 1840 Matheson House (Perth Museum since 1967), the Crystal Palace at the Tay Basin, and Last Duel Park — named for the 1833 Lyon-Wilson duel widely reported as the last fatal duel in what is now Ontario — anchor the heritage walking core. Beveridges Lockstation (Locks 33 and 34) at the canal's lakeward end opens the 202 km Rideau Canal navigation system, inscribed by UNESCO in 2007.

Lanark County, which markets itself as the Maple Syrup Capital of Ontario, surrounds the town with maple bush, the K&P Trail rail corridor, and Murphys Point Provincial Park on Big Rideau Lake. Perth sits on the unceded traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg.