Town Of Caledon Walk Of Fame
The Town of Caledon's Walk of Fame is located in the Trans Canada Trail Pavilion Park, in Caledon, Ontario, Canada. Inductees are current or past residents, who have made significant contributions locally, nationally and internationally. Inductees * 1999: Norman Jewison, filmmaker * 2000: Elmer Iseler, choir director * 2001: Robertson Davies, author * 2002: Robert McMichael, Robert and Signe McMichael, gallery founders * 2003: Dr. Faye Lindsey, physician * 2004: Dr. Murray Fallis, the "Father of Canadian parasitology" * 2005: Farley Mowat, author * 2006: Russell K. Cooper, Russell Cooper, photographer and history advocate * 2007: Daphne Lingwood, leather artist * 2008: Alex Raeburn, prominent community member, including municipal politician * 2009: Conn Smythe, sports businessman * 2010: James B. Douglas; actor, preserver of local history * 2011: Tayler Parnaby, broadcaster, journalist * 2012: Christopher Dedrick (composer), Christopher Dedrick, composer, musician * 2013: Marilyn ...
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Town Of Caledon Walk Of Fame - Caledon, ON
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German language, German word , the Dutch language, Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic language, Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh language, Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fort ...
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