Thamesville is a community in

Chatham-Kent Chatham-Kent (Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population: 103,988) is a Census divisions of Ontario#Single-tier municipalities, single-tier municipality in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is mostly rural, and its population centres are Chatham, Wallac ...

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, Canada. It is located at the junction of former provincial Highways 2 and 21, between Chatham and

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. Its name comes from the

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that flows nearby and the

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-"ville". Post office established in 1832. It has a very small downtown with several restaurants and stores. Students get bussed to

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

for Secondary Education, at Lambton-Kent Composite School or other local secondary schools such as, Ursuline College Chatham, Chatham-kent composite school, and Ridgetown District high-school. Thamesville has one Public Elementary School (Thamesville Area Central School), and one Catholic Elementary School (Good Shepherd Catholic School). It is the home of the Threshing Festival, which is held annually in the month of June. The Threshing Festival's main attraction is the midway and the large parade held on the first night of the Festival. The festival sticks to its "rural roots" by featuring such events as: Lawnmower races, Farmer Olympics, and Frog Jumping contests. The former town hall (right) is now a public library and museum. Near Thamesville is the site of a famous battle in the

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. It is there that Shawnee leader

Tecumseh Tecumseh ( ; (March 9, 1768October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the Territorial evolution of the United States, expansion of the United States onto Native Americans in the United States, Native American ...

was killed during the

Battle of the Thames The Battle of the Thames , also known as the Battle of Moraviantown, was an American victory in the War of 1812 against Tecumseh's Confederacy and their United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British allies. It took place on October 5, 1813, ...

. In tribute to this war hero, a monument stands across from the field where the battle occurred. Thamesville is also the birthplace of famous Canadian author

Robertson Davies William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished " men of letters" ...

who wrote the

Deptford Trilogy ''The Deptford Trilogy'' (published 1970 to 1975) is a series of inter-related novels by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. Overview The trilogy consists of ''Fifth Business'' (1970), ''The Manticore'' (1972), and '' World of Wonders'' (1975). ...

of novels (''

Fifth Business ''Fifth Business'' (1970) is a novel by Canadian writer Robertson Davies. First published by Macmillan of Canada in 1970, it is the first installment of Davies' best-known work, the '' Deptford Trilogy'', and explores the life of the narrator, D ...

'', ''

The Manticore ''The Manticore'' is the second novel in Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy. Published in 1972 by Macmillan of Canada, it deals with the aftermath of the mysterious death of Percy Boyd "Boy" Staunton retold during a series of conversations bet ...

'', and '' World of Wonders''), in which Thamesville is fictionalized as the town of Deptford, Ontario. Bulldog Steel Wool is manufactured in Thamesville.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Thamesville had a population of 774 living in 345 of its 364 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 861. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Notable people

* Birthplace of author

References

External links

Thamesville on Chatham-Kent Community Portal
{{authority control Communities in Chatham-Kent Designated places in Ontario

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