Dunham, a village in Missisquoi county, Quebec, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 30 miles south-west of Waterloo. With the township in which it is situated, which was created in 1796, it is named in honour of the Hon. Thomas Dunn, administrator of Canada (1805-11). It is essentially the centre of an agricultural community.

Source: W. Stewart WALLACE, The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., p. 248.