The region's colonial history began with an influx of settlers after Belmont and Methuen Township was surveyed in 1823. The community of Havelock was incorporated as an independent village in 1892. Havelock was named after the British general, Sir Henry Havelock. In 1961, the Havelock branch of the Toronto-Dominian Bank was robbed, in what was described by the Toronto Star in 2021 as "one of the biggest bank robberies in Canadian history.
