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Campbellford
Campbellford is an unincorporated place and former town in Northumberland County, Ontario, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, in the List of municipalities in Ontario#Lower-tier municipalities, township municipality of Trent Hills. It lies approximately midway between Toronto and Ottawa. It is situated on both the Trent-Severn Waterway and the Trans Canada Trail. It can be reached from Highway 401 (Ontario), Highway 401 by exiting at Brighton (exit 509) and going north on County Road 30. It can also be reached from Highway 7 at the Havelock exit going south (also on County Road 30). Campbellford is surrounded by prime agricultural land which is home to many farms. In recent years, some of the town's agricultural sector has diversified into non-traditional areas such as bison farming, rare breeds farming and there are many horse farms in the area. The town has a farmers market that is open two days a week in the summer. History Campbellford traces its history back to 183 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbellford Memorial Hospital
The Campbellford Memorial Hospital is an Ontario class C and class G 34-bed hospital in the community of Campbellford, municipality of Trent Hills, Northumberland County in central Ontario, Canada. It opened in 1953, is part of the Central East LHIN and is the largest employer in the community. The emergency department had 20,448 visits between April 2009 and Mar 2010 Facilities The hospital includes a 24-hour emergency department; a family health team, Hillside Family Medicine, which serves over 16,000 patients and is a teaching practice affiliated with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine The Temerty Faculty of Medicine (previously Faculty of Medicine) is the medical school of the University of Toronto. Founded in 1843, the faculty is based at the St. George campus in Downtown Toronto and is one of Canada's oldest institutions ...; a community mental health centre; and a long term care facility. The hospital is recognized for the strength of its infection cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CKOL-FM
CKOL-FM is a community radio station broadcasting at 93.7 FM in Campbellford, Ontario, Canada, with a repeater, CKOL-FM-1 100.7 located in Madoc. Since its first broadcast in 1992, this vibrant community radio station has been serving the Municipality of Trent Hills and the surrounding area with great music and tireless promotion of local talent, business and events. The station has grown over the years, boosting its power from 50 to 500 watts and adding a sister station in Madoc. All musical genres are represented from A to Z (Alternate country to Zydeco). Listeners enjoy big band, blues, bluegrass, country, Celtic, easy listening, folk, gospel, jazz, pop, R&B, rock, rock 'n roll and contemporary releases featuring both international and local musicians. As well, CKOL broadcasts live from community events and meetings and covers community and local council news on a daily basis. CKOL has been designated the official Emergency Information station for the Municipality of Trent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northumberland County, Ontario
Northumberland County is a county situated on the north shore of Lake Ontario, east of Toronto in Central Ontario, Canada. The Northumberland County headquarters are located in Cobourg. Municipalities Northumberland County consists of seven municipalities: The Alderville First Nation is geographically located within the County and is a part of the Northumberland census division, but, as an Indian reserve, it is independent of county administration. History The County was first established in 1792, and was organized alongside neighbouring Durham County into the Newcastle District of Upper Canada in 1802. The County was initially settled by a mix of Irish, Scottish, and English immigrants, as well as by Americans immigrating north from New England. In 1850, the Newcastle District was reorganized into the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham, an arrangement which lasted until 1973. Effective January 1, 1974, the majority of Durham County was amalgamated with Ontari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hastings, Ontario
Hastings is a community within the municipality of Trent Hills, Northumberland County, in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is situated on the Trent-Severn Waterway and the Trans Canada Trail in what is considered to be Ontario's "cottage country". It can be reached from Highway 401 by exiting at exit 474 at Cobourg and going north on County Road 45. It can be reached from Highway 7 at the Norwood exit going south (also on County Road 45). Hastings had a population of 1,208 at the 2001 Census. It is known as "The Hub of the Trent" as Hastings is directly on the Trent River and serves as a major centre for tourists, boaters, and fishermen. One of Hastings' notable symbols is a tall, blue water tower which is perched prominently on high ground in the northern portion of the community. Hastings is now part of the municipality of Trent Hills and makes up the second most substantial population centre in the municipality. The position of mayor of Trent Hills was filled in Nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trent Hills
The Municipality of Trent Hills is a township municipality in Northumberland County in Central Ontario, Canada. It is on the Trent River and was created in 2001 through the amalgamation of the municipalities of Campbellford/Seymour, Percy Township, and Hastings Village. Thereafter it was known briefly as Campbellford/Seymour, Percy, Hastings. Communities The municipality was historically four separate administrative subdivisions: the former town of Campbellford; the former village of Hastings; Seymour Township; and Percy Township. The latter two retain the status of geographic townships. There are three main population centres in Trent Hills: Campbellford; Hastings; and the former village of Warkworth, formerly the municipal seat of Percy Township prior to the amalgamation of Trent Hills. Smaller communities within the municipality include: * Allan Mills * Brickley * Burnbrae * Connellys * Crowe Bridge * Dartford * English Line * Godolphin * Green Acres * Healey Falls * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Numbered Roads In Northumberland County ...
This is a list of numbered roads in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada. {{Ontario numbered highways Northumberland Northumberland ( ) is a ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North East England, on the Anglo-Scottish border, border with Scotland. It is bordered by the North Sea to the east, Tyne and Wear and County Durham to the south, Cumb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferris Provincial Park
Ferris Provincial Park is a provincial park in northeastern Northumberland County in Ontario, Canada. The park occupies an area of next to the Trent River in Campbellford Campbellford is an unincorporated place and former town in Northumberland County, Ontario, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, in the List of municipalities in Ontario#Lower-tier municipalities, township municipality of Trent Hills. It lies ..., Ontario. Within the park are 10 kilometres of hiking and mountain biking trails and a suspension bridge over Ranney Gorge. Two campground areas offer 163 sites for car camping (tents to trailers). The park has a boat launch facility available for launching into the Trent River. The park's land was originally owned by James Marshall Ferris and his descendants. The province acquired the lands in 1960 (Cock farm section in 1969) and opened the provincial park in 1962. The park was threatened by closure in 1994, but saved by efforts from the members of the local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Townsend
Brent Townsend is a Canadian nature artist who in 1996 designed the portrait of a polar bear The polar bear (''Ursus maritimus'') is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas. It is closely related to the brown bear, and the two species can Hybrid (biology), interbreed. The polar bear is the largest extant species of bear ... in early summer on an ice floe that appears on the current Canadian 2 dollar coin. Born in Toronto, Townsend no longer lives in Campbellford, Ontario. References External links Official site 20th-century Canadian painters Canadian male painters 21st-century Canadian painters Canadian portrait painters Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Coin designers 20th-century Canadian male artists 21st-century Canadian male artists {{Canada-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Codes 705 And 249
Area codes 705, 249, and 683 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for most of northeastern and central Ontario in Canada. Area code 705 was created in a 1956 area code split from portions of the 613 and 519 numbering plan areas. After a reduction in geographic coverage in 1962, the numbering plan area was assigned a second area code, 249, in 2011 to form an overlay numbering plan. A third area code, 683, was added in June 2022. History Ontario received two area codes, 416 and 613, in the initial configuration of the first continental telephone numbering plan in 1947. Numbering plan area 416, in the southern part of the province, was reduced in geographic extent in 1953 and area code 519 was assigned to the western part of the province. In 1956, area code 705 was assigned to portions of the 613 and 519 numbering plan areas, serving nearly all of Ontario north and west of the Golden Horseshoe. In 1962, the resulting numbering plan area was reduce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escott Reid
Escott Graves Meredith Reid, CC (January 21, 1905 – September 28, 1999), was a Canadian diplomat who helped shape the United Nations and NATO, author, international public servant and academic administrator. Early life and education Born in Campbellford, Ontario, he was the son of Shropshire native and Anglican minister Rev. Alfred John Reid (1861–1957), by his wife Morna Irvine Meredith (1871–1962), the youngest daughter of Edmund Allen Meredith and a god-daughter of George Irvine. His Meredith grandfather had served as Deputy Under-Secretary of Canada, and Reid later occupied his very same offices at Parliament Hill. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Trinity College, in the University of Toronto in 1927. A Rhodes scholar, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1929 and a Master of Arts degree in 1935 from Christ Church, Oxford. Though academic jobs were scarce in 1930, he had won a Rockefeller Fellowship which enabled him to study t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toonie
The toonie (also spelled twonie or twoonie), formally the Canadian two-dollar coin (, nicknamed or ), was introduced on February 19, 1996, by Minister of Public Works Diane Marleau. it possesses the highest monetary value of any circulating Canadian coin. The toonie is a bi-metallic coin which on the reverse side features an image of a polar bear by artist Brent Townsend. The obverse, since 2023, bears a portrait of King Charles III. It has the words "Charles III / "; . The coin is manufactured using a patented distinctive bi-metallic coin-locking mechanism. The coins are estimated to last 20 years. The discontinued two-dollar bill was less expensive to manufacture but lasted only one year on average. On April 10, 2012, the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) announced design changes to the loonie and toonie, which include new security features. Coins minted prior to 2012 consist of an aluminum bronze inner core with a pure nickel outer ring; but in March–May 2012, the compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trent River (Ontario)
The Trent River is a river in southeastern Ontario which flows from Rice Lake (Ontario), Rice Lake to empty into the Bay of Quinte on Lake Ontario. This river is part of the Trent-Severn Waterway which leads to Georgian Bay. The river is long. The Trent drains a large portion of south-central Ontario, including most of the Kawartha Lakes (Ontario), Kawartha Lakes and their supplying watersheds. The river is host to numerous species of birds, amphibians and fish. Some species of fish in the river include: Smallmouth bass, Largemouth bass, Northern pike, Pike, Walleye, Freshwater drums, Crappie, as well as other smaller fish such as Centrarchidae, Sunfish, Rock Bass and Bluegill. Located in traditional territory of the Mississaugas, Mississauga Anishinaabek, Trent River's name in Ojibwe language, Ojibwe is both "zaagidawijiwanaang", and "Saugechewigewonk", meaning "Strong Rapids Waters". Tributaries of this river include the Crowe River and the Otonabee River, which runs through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
