Editing Canadice, New York (section)

== History ==
The name of the town Canadice is a corruption of various words in local languages approximating 'Skaneadice', a common placename meaning 'long lake' which here referred to [[Canadice Lake]]. It would originally have been written Ska-ne-o'-dice in Onondaga and Seneca.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Beauchamp |first=William Martin |url=http://archive.org/details/aboriginalplacen00beau |title=Aboriginal place names of New York |date=1907 |publisher=Albany : New York State Education Dept. |others=Internet Archive}}</ref>

When the county was formed, Canadice was within a district named, in turn "Pittstown," "Honeoye," and "Richmond." Settlement began ''circa'' 1795 near the shore of Honeoye Lake. The town was first established on April 15, 1829 from the [[Richmond, New York|Town of Richmond]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Child |first=Hamilton |title=Gazetteer and Business Directory of Ontario County, N.Y., for 1867-8 |date=2010 |publisher=Nabu Press |isbn=9781145525726 |language=en}}</ref> but was not fully organized until the next year. A part of Canadice was taken back by Richmond in 1836.<ref name=":0" />

As of 1868, There were three churches in the town, [[Methodist Episcopal Church|Methodist Episcopal]], [[Methodist Protestant Church|Methodist Protestant]] and [[Wesleyan Methodist Church (United States)|Wesleyan Methodist]].<ref name=":0" />