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2026-10-08

Attracted by the development of the lumbering industry in the Upper Ottawa Valley, a few settlers had located in this…

2026-10-08

Settlers came to this district about 1794 after the construction of Yonge Street north from York (Toronto). The settlement prospered…

2026-10-08

By 1826, the earliest settlers on the site of Ridgetown, notably William Marsh, James Watson, Edmund Mitton and Ebenezer Colby,…

2026-10-08

The French-speaking families of Ignace Cazelet, Jean-Baptiste Paré and Joseph LaForge arrived here 1807-1810. Other settlers, many of Scottish descent,…

2026-10-08

In 1793, here on the River Thames, Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe reserved a site for the capital of Upper Canada.…

2026-10-08

Lucan was founded in anticipation of the construction of the Grand Trunk Railway to Sarnia, projected in 1854 and built…

2026-10-08

Development of this community began after the construction of the province's first successful iron smelter and a sawmill in 1801.…

2026-10-08

Mills constructed about 1832 by Donald MacKenzie, a Belleville merchant, and the ironworks erected by American entrepreneurs Uriah Seymour and…

2026-10-08

In this vicinity, the site of a shipyard used during both the late French and early British periods, a village…

2026-10-08

The earliest settlers in this part of Markham Township, including several "Pennsylvania Dutch," arrived on the Rouge River shortly after…