Port Granby is a

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in the municipality of

Clarington Clarington (2021 population 101,427) is a lower-tier municipality in the Regional Municipality of Durham in Ontario, Canada. It was incorporated in 1973 as the town of Newcastle with the merging of the town of Bowmanville, the Village of Newcastl ...

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, Canada. The community is on

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at the mouth of

Port Granby Creek Port Granby Creek (french: ruisseau Port Granby) is a stream in the municipality of Clarington, Regional Municipality of Durham in Ontario, Canada. It feeds into Lake Ontario, which it reaches at the community of Port Granby, after which it is na ...

, and lies at an elevation of .

History

The area was first settled in the summer of 1796, and Danforth's Road — from Toronto to the mouth of the Trent River, later extended via Prince Edward County to connect onward to

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— was completed through the area by

Asa Danforth Jr. Asa Danforth Jr. (June 29, 1768 – c. 1818 to 1821) was one of the first citizens of Onondaga County, New York, when he arrived there with his father, Asa Danforth in 1788. Danforth incurred heavy debts speculating in land in New York State. ...

by 1799, but that route was superseded by Kingston Road further north, away from the Port Granby area, in 1817. (The author is credited as being from the Newcastle Village and District Historical Society, the local

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). The community is first mentioned as the Village of Granby in 1841. A request to incorporate the Granby Harbor Company was made in 1846, and the community was officially named Port Granby in 1848. Grain and timber were the principal goods shipped from the port through the 19th century, but the village had mostly disappeared by the 1920s, with only a few homes and a post office remaining in 1936.

References

{{reflist Neighbourhoods in Clarington