Canton of Linth

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name = "Kanton Linth"
conventional_long_name = Canton of Linth
common_name = Linth|
continent = Europe
region = Alps
country = Switzerland
subdivision = Canton
nation = Helvetic Republic
status_text = Canton of the Helvetic Republic|
year_start = 1798
year_end = 1803|
event_pre = Helv. Rep.
date_pre = April 12, 1798
event_start = Canton established
date_start = June 17 1798
event_end = Helv. Rep. disestablished
date_end = February 19 1803|
p1 = Canton of Glarus
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p2 = Canton of Schwyz
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p3 = County of Uznach
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p4 = County of Toggenburg
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p5 = County of Werdenburg
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p6 = County of Sargans
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p7 = Imperial Abbey of Pfäfers
image_p7 =
p8 = Lordship of Sax
image_p8 =
p9 = Vogtei of Gams
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p10 = Vogtei of Windegg
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s1 = Canton of St. Gallen
image_s1 =
s2 = Canton of Glarus
image_s2 =
s3 = Canton of Schwyz
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image_map_caption = Cantons of Säntis (orange) and Linth (green)|
capital = Glarus

Linth was a canton of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803, consisting of Glarus and its subject County of Werdenberg, the Höfe and March districts of Schwyz and the Züricher subject Lordship of Sax, along with a handful of shared territories.

The canton held 78,000 inhabitants and was administered in seven districts — Werdenberg, Mels, Neu Sankt Johann, Glarus, Schwanden, Schänis and Rapperswil; as with all cantons of the Helvetic Republic, Linth was established and administered on a French Revolutionary model. The brief tenure of office of the cantonal heads Joachim Heer (1798), Johann Jakob Heussi (1798–99), Felix Christoph Cajetan Fuchs (1799), Niklaus Heer (1799–1802) and Franz Josef Büeler (1802–03) reflected the military and political turmoil plaguing the region, which was under French occupation from 1799, during the War of the Second Coalition, with serious effects on the local economy.

The mainly-Roman Catholic canton acquired a strong aversion to the centralised nature of the government of the Helvetic Republic, even though the canton was mainly composed of territories previously subject to the Old Swiss Confederation, rather than any of the "Dreizehn Orte", and even though all citizens of the republic had equal rights. The canton sided only very reluctantly with the French Revolutionary Army. Initial fervour for public education waned as the pressure from the central government was relaxed.

Upper Toggenburg was transferred to the canton of Säntis in 1801, but the canton as a whole existed until the Act of Mediation on March 10 1803.

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