Kettleby is an
unincorporated community in the northeastern part of
King Township in
Ontario, Canada. It is located about east of
Highway 400, north of
Toronto, about south of
Barrie, west of
Newmarket, and about east of
Orangeville.
Geography
Kettleby is surrounded by the rolling hills of King Township. The hamlet spans , while the Kettleby postal area spans of land area.
The hamlet sits predominantly on a rise of land between two valleys of the looping Kettleby Creek. Hills surround the western, southern and the central parts of Kettleby while taller hills ranging as high as about are to the north and reach close to the highway linking Orangeville and Newmarket (Highway 9). Farmlands lie to the southeast while the
Holland Marsh lies to the north, one of the lowest points in King Township.
History
Kettleby was established no later than 1825, when Jacob Tool of Pennsylvania purchased in a wide
ravine, including a stream. He built a
sawmill powered by the stream's flow, but little other development occurred in the area. It was the industrious Septimus Tyrwhitt, who purchased of Tool's property in 1842, that spurred development of more mills and the eventual settlement of Kettleby. Early settlers often referred to it as ''Tyrwhitt's Mills'', in honour of Tyrwhitt. However, he disapproved of the name, and his wife subsequently named the hamlet Kettleby, after the Tyrwhitt family ancestral home in Lincolnshire, England. That the name ''Kettle Bee'' derived from the construction bee of raising Tyrwhitt's mill, which drew many men from surrounding villages, is a local
urban legend. Tyrwhitt was named
reeve
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of King Township in 1852.
On August 6, 1851, the first post office was opened, and was styled ''Kettleby Mills, Canada West''. In September 1859, it was renamed Kettleby, by which name it is still known today.
Kettleby had the largest membership in the
Sons of Temperance
The Sons of Temperance was and is a brotherhood of men who promoted the temperance movement and mutual support. The group was founded in 1842 in New York City. It began spreading rapidly during the 1840s throughout the United States and parts o ...
society in
Upper Canada, with over 200 members, and was "one of the strongholds of the
temperance movement in the mid-19th century". Temperance Hall, a gathering place of the Sons of Temperance, was built in 1850. It was transported to
Black Creek Pioneer Village in order to preserve it. The hamlet's first distillery preceded the movement by nearly a decade, having been erected in 1843, and numerous establishments throughout King were licensed to serve alcohol, including two hotels in Kettleby.
Climate
Kettleby has a
continental climate
Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm summers and cold winters). They tend to occur in the middle latitudes (40 to 55 north), within large landmasses where prevailing winds blow overland bringing som ...
moderated by the
Great Lakes and influenced by warm, moist
air masses from the south, and cold, dry air from the north. The
Oak Ridges Moraine affects levels of precipitation: as an air mass arrives from
Lake Ontario and reaches the elevated ground surface of the moraine, it rises causing precipitation.
Demographics
The postal route of RR1 and RR2 Kettleby which includes the hamlet of Kettleby, the Carrying Place development and most of the community of Pottageville has 430 dwellings with a population of 1248. The actual hamlet of Kettleby has 40 dwellings, a church, cemetery, bakery, day camp and conservation area with a 2012 population of 101 made up of 84 adults and 17 children.
Politics
Kettleby does not have its own municipal government. Decisions for allocating tax revenues are made by King Township's council. Kettleby is represented by the councillor of Ward 5, currently Debbie Schaeffer.
Kettleby residents vote in the electoral district of
King-Vaughan both provincially and federally.
Education
The Kettleby Public School serves the municipality for children of elementary school age.
King City Secondary School is the closest high school to the community.
Research
The
University of Guelph conducts agricultural research at the
Muck Crops Research Station
The Muck Crops Research Station is an agriculture research facility near Kettleby and Ansnorveldt, in Ontario, Canada. It is operated by the Office of Research at the University of Guelph.
The station's research is focussed on several key areas ...
in the Kettleby area. Facilities at the site include greenhouses with a system-controlled environment, a plant pathology laboratory, and long-term cold storage. Seven hectares of land are split into plots devoted to researching organic and mineral soils. Local growers also participate in commercial field trials on occasion.
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External links
Township of King – official website
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Communities in King, Ontario