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Dornoch, Ontario
The village of Dornoch is located less than 11 kilometers north of the Town of Durham on Highway 6 in Grey County, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the municipality of West Grey. Dornoch was settled by Bartholomew Griffin in 1841. The area was originally called "Griffin's Corners"; it acquired its present name in 1880, when Philip McIntosh renamed it for his father's birthplace in Scotland. Griffin started the first general store. The community centre was built in 1952. Dornoch is situated 11 kilometers south of Williamsford and 33 kilometers south of Owen Sound. The village is primarily a small farming community on the outskirts of Durham, but does have a convenience store that is known for its photography and ice cream, a community hall that is used for small events as well as the recently rebuilt Dawg House Inn. The community hall was sold to private owners. In January 2020, the village got bus service provided by Kasper Transportation on its Owen Sound to Guelph Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durham, Ontario
Durham is a community in the municipality of West Grey, Grey County, Ontario, Canada. Durham is located near the base of the Bruce Peninsula. Location Durham, Ontario is 44 kilometres South of Owen Sound and 89 kilometres North of Guelph on Ontario Highway 6. The middle of the town is the intersection of Highway 6 and Grey Road 4. Durham is approximately 18 kilometres east of Hanover. The population of Durham has stayed steady at roughly 2500 people over the past decade. This compares to neighbour Hanover which has grown from 6,400 to 8,200 people in the past decade. Durham is built around the Saugeen River and has three human-made dams. These dams have suffered at least two major floods, once in 1929 when the dam broke and again in 1997 due to ice blockage. Durham also used to be the centre of the livestock exchange for the surrounding Grey and Bruce counties; it lies close to the county border. On the outskirts of Durham, there are several small communities, such as Varne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guelph, Ontario
Guelph ( ; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", Guelph is roughly east of Kitchener and west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Highway 6, Highway 7 and Wellington County Road 124. It is the seat of Wellington County, but is politically independent of it. Guelph began as a settlement in the 1820s, established by Scotsman John Galt, who was in Upper Canada as the first Superintendent of the Canada Company. He based the headquarters, and his home, in the community. The area – much of which became Wellington County – had been part of the Halton Block, a Crown Reserve for the Six Nations Iroquois. Galt would later be considered as the founder of Guelph. For many years, Guelph ranked at or near the bottom of Canada's crime severity list. However, the 2017 Crime Severity Index showed a 15% increase from 2016. Guelph has been noted as having one of the lowest unemployment rates in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur, Ontario
Arthur (population 2,450) is a community located just north of Highway 6 and Wellington Road 109 in the township of Wellington North, Ontario, Canada. Formerly an independent village, Arthur was amalgamated into Wellington North on January 1, 1999. History The village was named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Settlers began arriving in 1840. The area was first surveyed in 1841 by John McDonald and then officially in 1846 by D.B. Papineau. During the first survey in 1841, the population of Arthur was 22 people. Over the next 15 years this number rose to 400 and by 1900 the population had risen to just over 1500. The saw and grist mills on the Conestogo River encouraged people to settle here. In 1851, a post office, church and school were organized. Development increased in 1872 when the train line of the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway reached the village which was incorporated in that year. The ''Arthur Enterprise News'', established in 1863, was one of the few ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Forest, Ontario
Mount Forest is an unincorporated community located at the junction of Highway 6 and Highway 89 in the township of Wellington North, Ontario, Canada. As of the 2011 Canadian census the population of Mount Forest was 4,757 . History Prior to European settlement, present day Mount Forest was prime hunting ground for the Saugeen Ojibway peoples due to its location on the Saugeen River. Because of this, many sacred burial sites are believed to be located in the White Bluffs region of present-day Mount Forest. During the survey of the Garafraxa Colonization Road, constructed from Arthur to Georgian Bay in 1840–48, land was reserved for a settlement. By 1851 a post office was established. The village was originally known as Maitland Hills, because it was believed to be on the Maitland River system. This was incorrect; the village is on a height of land near the headwaters of the South Saugeen River. The settlement was surveyed into lots in 1853 by Francis Kerr, a provincial l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varney, Ontario
Varney is a small community in Grey County, Ontario, Canada. Varney is located on Highway 6, about 5 kilometers south of Durham and 19 kilometers north of Mount Forest. John Vernon Pettigrew, Men's Featherweight Wrestler ( 1936 Olympic Summer games), was born in Varney, in 1908. Attractions Varney International Speedway is a 1/4 mile high banked short track motor racing oval, located south of the village. The track hosts a weekly Saturday night stock car racing program that runs from May to September each year. In the north end of the town, easily visible from the road, is the World's LargestAdirondack chair'' See also * List of unincorporated communities in Ontario The following is a list of unincorporated and informal communities in the province of Ontario, Canada. These communities are not independent communities, these are usually a part of a township for the district, within a county. In non-urban areas, ... References External linksGrey County official webpage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flesherton, Ontario
Flesherton (population 584) is a community in the Municipality of Grey Highlands, in Grey County, Ontario, Canada, located at the junction of Highway 10 and Grey County Road 4 (formerly Highway 4). Although the area initially showed a high rate of growth in the 1850s and its founder believed that it would become an important centre of economic activity, growth stagnated when an all-important rail link bypassed it, and the community never grew larger than a small village. The self-proclaimed "Gateway to the Beaver Valley" recently lost its autonomy as a village when it was amalgamated with the surrounding Artemesia Township. History Prehistory A paleolithic quartzite arrowhead that had been quarried north of the Great Lakes was discovered near Flesherton in 1974. Whether it was carried south to the Flesherton area around the east side of Georgian Bay, or dates back to a time when a land bridge existed between the Bruce Peninsula and Manitoulin Island, the arrowhead does point ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priceville, Ontario
Priceville is a village in the southwest corner of the Municipality of Grey Highlands, Grey County, Ontario, Canada. It is on the Saugeen River on Grey Road 4, east of Durham and southwest of Flesherton. History The first settlers were African Americans, who established a small settlement along Old Durham Road (now Durham Road B) east of the village. Here they built a log school, a log church and established a cemetery. Many of these early settlers later moved to Collingwood, Oro, or Owen Sound. All that remains to commemorate this community is a cairn and refurbished grave site at the intersection of County Road 14 and Durham Road B some three kilometers east of Priceville. The discovery and refurbishment of this cemetery is documented in the 2000 National Film Board of Canada film, ''Speakers for the Dead'', co-directed by Jennifer Holness and David Sutherland (now Sudz Sutherland). The 1908 CPR Priceville Station was located on the CPR Walkerton Sub-division and formerly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanover, Ontario
Hanover is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario with a population of about 7,650 residents. It is located in southwestern Grey County, bordering on Bruce County, west of Durham and east of Walkerton on Grey/Bruce Road 4. Hanover has a city hall, police department and the Hanover and District Hospital. History In 1850, pioneer Abraham Buck and his family established a farm and tavern on the Saugeen River in the region of modern-day Hanover. Many settlers, most originally German, arrived to the area; a townsite was laid out by 1855. It was earlier called Buck's Crossing and then Adamstown, but was renamed Hanover. Records from 1867, indicate a gristmill, sawmill and carding mill, a foundry and a cabinet factory. Knechtel Furniture Company had opened around that time; the enterprise had been started in a barn by Daniel Knechtel who came from Waterloo County, Ontario. The company expanded over the years, becoming a large employer; it had locations in Southampton, Ontario and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walkerton, Ontario
Walkerton is a Town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within and governed by the municipality of Brockton, Ontario, Brockton. It is the site of Brockton's municipal offices and the county seat of Bruce County, Ontario, Bruce County. It is located on the Saugeen River, at the junction of Highway 9 (Ontario), King's Highway 9 and formerly Highway 4 (Ontario), King's Highway 4 and is 75 km southwest of Owen Sound, Ontario, Owen Sound. As of 2011, the town had 4,967 people in the community. On January 1, 1999, Walkerton became part of the Brockton, Ontario, Municipality of Brockton. The town is notable for the 2000 Walkerton E. coli outbreak. History Walkerton was originally part of Brant County and was first settled in 1849 by William Jasper and Edward Boulton who farmed to the east of the river. Other settlers from the same era included John Lundy, Moses Stewart and Thomas Bilkie who farmed to the west of the river. Joseph Walker arrived from Ireland in 1850 and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chatsworth, Ontario (town)
Chatsworth is a community in Grey County, Ontario, Canada, part of the Township of Chatsworth. It is located south of Owen Sound and north of Durham where Highways 6 and 10 merge. The village neighbours Williamsford, Dornoch, and Desboro. History Originally named ''Johnstown'' after an early landowner, the post office was renamed ''Holland East'' in 1851. It was renamed again to its present name in 1857. The name comes from Chatsworth House, in Derbyshire, near the home town of the postmaster at that time. Chatsworth was founded in 1848 at the northern terminus of the Toronto-Sydenham Colonization Road. Modern Highway 10 follows most of the original road's route. On January 1, 2001, The Village of Chatsworth was merged into the new Township of Chatsworth, along with Holland and Sullivan Townships. Famous Canadian suffragette Nellie McClung was born in Chatsworth. Transportation Chatsworth sits at the junction of Ontario Highway 6 and Ontario Highway 10, which are the mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Sound Sun Times
''The Sun Times'' is a local newspaper which services the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound area in the Canadian province of Ontario. Its headquarters are in Owen Sound. The ''Times'' newspaper was founded in 1853 and ''The Sun'' newspaper was founded in 1893; they amalgamated in 1918. Daily editions of the amalgamated paper started in 1922. The newspaper is owned and operated by Postmedia. The current editor is Doug Edgar, a former reporter for the paper. See also *List of newspapers in Canada This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. Daily newspapers Local weeklies Alberta * Airdrie – '' Airdrie Echo'' * Bashaw – '' Bashaw Star'' * Bassano – ''Bassano Times'' * Beaumont †... External links * Postmedia Network publications Mass media in Owen Sound Daily newspapers published in Ontario Publications established in 1918 1918 establishments in Ontario {{Canada-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasper Transportation
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Kasper may refer to: * Kasper (surname), a list of people with the surname * Kasper (given name), a list of people with the given name * Käsper (surname), an Estonian surname * Kasper (singer), Korean rapper * Kasperle or Kasper, a traditional puppet character from Austria and Germany * Michael Kasprowicz (born 1972), Australian cricketer nicknamed "Kasper" * a division of Jones Apparel Group See also * Casper (other) * Kaspar * Kašpar Kašpar is a Czech surname. It may refer to: * Adolf Kašpar (1877-1934), Czech painter and illustrator * Jan Kašpar (1883-1927), Czech aviator, designer and engineer * Jonáš Kašpar, Czech slalom canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
