Pinkerton (also Pinkerton's Corners) is an unincorporated rural community in
Bradford West Gwillimbury Township,
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 ...
,
Ontario
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, Canada.
History
Matthew Pinkerton, a surveyor and early settler, built a log school house in 1840.
A Wesleyan Methodist Church was erected in 1844, and a hotel was built in Pinkerton in 1854. A
Primitive Methodist Church
The Primitive Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination with the holiness movement. It began in England in the early 19th century, with the influence of American evangelist Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834).
In the United States, the Primit ...
was built in 1864, and St. Lukes Anglican Church was established in 1871.
Pinkerton School (S.S. 11) was built in 1873, and was one of the first brick schools in the area. A new brick school with a bell tower and two entrances was built in 1908, and was used until at least the late 1950s.
The Toronto–Barrie Highway, now called
Ontario Highway 400
King's Highway 400, commonly referred to as Highway400, historically as the Toronto–Barrie Highway, and colloquially as the400, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario linking the city of Toronto in the urban and agricultura ...
, was built through the east boundary of Pinkerton in the late 1940s.
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Communities in Simcoe County