Beeton is a small community located in southern

Simcoe County Simcoe County is located in the central portion of Southern Ontario, Canada. The county is just north of the Greater Toronto Area, stretching from the shores of Lake Simcoe in the east to Georgian Bay in the west. Simcoe County forms part of the ...

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, Canada between

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and

Alliston Alliston is a settlement in Simcoe County in the Canadian province of Ontario. It has been part of the Town of New Tecumseth since the 1991 amalgamation of Alliston and nearby villages of Beeton, Tottenham, and the Township of Tecumseth. The pri ...

; all three were amalgamated in 1991 into the single Town of

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. Beeton was named for a local apiary. Formerly known as Clarksville for Robert Clark, an early settler; the name changed to Beeton in 1878.

Demographics

*Population: 3,891 (2016 Census) *Location: Ontario, Canada *Postal code: L0G 1A0 *Area code: +1-

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*Elevation: about 200 m (700 ft)

Education

Beeton has one public elementary school (Tecumseth Beeton Elementary School) and one Catholic elementary school (Monsignor J.E Ronan Catholic School).

Railway

Beeton was a stop on the

Hamilton and North-Western Railway The Hamilton and North-Western Railway (H&NW) is a former railway in Ontario, Canada. It ran north from Hamilton on the western end of Lake Ontario to Collingwood on Georgian Bay and Barrie on Lake Simcoe. Through the purchase of the Hamilton an ...

. The railway split just north of the townsite, at a location then known as Allimil, running northeast through Cookstown to

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and northwest through

to Collingwood. The line was later taken over by the

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, eventually turning into

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constructed a second line just to the west of town, and the CNR right-of-way was closed in the 1970s. The portion of the CNR railway running from Beeton south to

is now used for the

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, a

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Communities in Simcoe County Populated places established in 1836 1836 establishments in the British Empire {{Ontario-geo-stub

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