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Area Codes 519, 226, And 548
Area codes 519, 226, 548, and 382 are overlay telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for most of southwestern Ontario. Area code 519 was the initial code of the numbering plan area (NPA). It was assigned in 1953 in a remapping of the western portion of area code 416 and the southwestern portion of 613. The numbering plan area is mostly bounded by area code 905, except for Simcoe County which is neighboring 705. Area code 226 was added to the numbering plan area in 2006 in a conversion to an overlay numbering plan and 548 was added in 2015. In 2023, the overlay was expanded again with the addition of area code 382. The primary incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) in the overlay complex is Bell Canada, with numerous other small independent companies that covered vast tracts of rural Ontario. Since competition for service was mandated in 1997, numerous competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) have also started serving the region. History Are ...
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Overlay Plan
In telecommunications, an area code overlay complex is a telephone numbering plan that assigns multiple area codes to the same geographic numbering plan area (NPA). Area code overlays are implemented in territories of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) to mitigate exhaustion of central office codes in growth areas. The method has been in use since 1992, and has been the exclusive method of area code relief since 2007. History From the inception of the North American Numbering Plan in 1947 until 1992, the only method of introducing new area codes was the area code split. It divided an existing numbering plan area (NPA) into multiple regions, one of which retained the existing area code. The other parts were each assigned a new NPA code. The retaining area was usually the historically more established or developed place, and required no numbering changes. It gained numbering capacity by acquiring the central office codes of the other areas, because those were delegated ...
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Permissive Dialling
In North America, permissive dialing is the ability to make phone calls in an area subject to a newly introduced area code by using both the new and preexisting dialing methods. When an area is given a new area code under a split plan, the area's previous area code would no longer be valid for calls in the area, so calls to numbers using the old area code will not work. To alleviate misdialing frustration, the local routing can be set up such that both the old and new area codes will work for the same telephone exchange. During this period, the local numbering authority must not reassign the area's existing exchanges to the remaining area of the old area code, nor vice versa. At the end of the permissive dialing period, the old area code is no longer valid for numbers in the affected area. Under an overlay plan, permissive dialing refers to the ability to continue to connect calls via 7-digit dialing while also making 10-digit dialing valid. Again, the affected area must not int ...
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Belle River, Ontario
Belle River is a community in Lakeshore, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. The population was 9,650 as of 2015. Geography The community is located in northern Lakeshore in Essex County, on the southern shore of Lake St. Clair. Demographics As of the census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ... of 2001, there were 4,887 people, 340 of whom aged 0-4, 795 aged 5-14, 380 aged 15-19, 310 aged 20-24, 1,595 aged 25-44, 635 aged 45-54, 375 aged 55-64, 265 aged 65-74, 160 aged 75-84, and 30 aged 85 and over. 49.6% were male and 50.4% female. Most of the residents are white, but 0.8% are Southeast Asian, and 0.93% are Black, Filipino, and Latin American.{{Cite web , title=2001 Belle River Census , url=https://www.city-facts.com/belle-river-lakeshore/population, publisher=S ...
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Beachville, Ontario
South-West Oxford is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within Oxford County. The township had a population of 7,664 in the 2016 Canadian census. A predominantly rural municipality, South-West Oxford was formed in 1975 through the amalgamation of Dereham and West Oxford townships and the village of Beachville. Governance The township council consists of the mayor and six councillors. The mayor is elected by a township-wide vote, while councillors are elected by a vote of residents in their respective ward. Members of the council are elected to four-year terms of office, with the present council's term ending in November 2022. In the election of 2018, the mayor and four of the councillors were returned by acclamation. Mayor David Mayberry began serving as a township councillor in 1994, was first elected mayor in 2006, and from 2015 to 2018 also served as the warden for the County of Oxford. The current councillors are: * David Mayberry - Mayor * Paul Buchn ...
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Bayfield, Ontario
Bayfield is a community in the municipality of Bluewater, Huron County in southwestern Ontario, Canada with a 2016 population of 1,112. Bluewater Municipality includes Bayfield, Bruce field, Dashwood, Hensall, Varna, and Zurich This municipality is made up of 92.8% English speaking people, 6.3% of other language speaking people and 0.9% of French speaking people as of 2016. In addition to this the majority of Bayfield's population is made up of Canadians, creating 88.2% of the population in the year 2016. It is on the eastern shore of Lake Huron at the mouth of Bayfield River. Bayfield is a popular tourist destination. Visitors enjoy the historic Main Street with its many well-preserved old buildings, including the Little Inn which has served travelers since the 1800s, initially as a stagecoach stop. Main Street is lined with boutique shops, art galleries and fine dining restaurants. The nearby marina and public beaches draw crowds in the summer months. History Bayfield was ...
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Baden, Ontario
Baden ( ) is a suburban community and unincorporated place in Wilmot, Ontario, Township of Wilmot, Regional Municipality of Waterloo in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. It was named after Baden-Baden, Germany; the approximate population as of 2015, as per township statistics, is 4,940. The area is the site of the Baden Tower, a huge television, radio, and communications tower located on top of one of the Baden Hills, which is the transmitter for CKCO-DT, the CTV Television Network, CTV affiliate for Kitchener, as well as CFCA-FM and CHYM-FM, which have studios in Kitchener. Much of the area consists of farmlands and pine forests are in the area. The local high school, Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School, is located just outside the town and the statue park Prime Ministers Path is located on the grounds adjacent to Castle Kilbride. History The first settler in this area was Jacob Beck in 1854; he opened a large flour mill on the Spring Creek. A second flour mill, two saw mi ...
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Ayr, Ontario
Ayr is a community in Ontario, Canada that is located within the Township of North Dumfries in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in Southwestern Ontario. Ayr is located south of Kitchener and west of Cambridge. History The village later to be called Ayr, on the Nith River, was originally a group of settlements, Mudge's Mills in the centre, Jedburgh to the east and Nithvale to the west, that eventually combined into one as they expanded. The name Ayr was first used in 1840 when it was assigned to the post office. The territory in this area, eventually to be the township of North Dumfries, consisting of 94,305 acres, had been sold to Philip Stedman in 1798 from Joseph Brant of the Six Nations. Ownership transferred to Thomas Clarke and then in 1816 to William Dickson a wealthy immigrant from Scotland. Absalom Shade was the only individual land owner in the area of the junction of Smith's Creek (now the Nith River) and Cedar Creek in 1822 and the first actual settler was A ...
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Aylmer, Ontario
Aylmer is a town in Elgin County in southern Ontario, Canada, just north of Lake Erie, on Catfish Creek. It is south of Highway 401, and is almost equidistant between the United States cities of Detroit and Buffalo. Aylmer is surrounded by Malahide Township. History In October 1817, John Van Patter, an immigrant from New York State, obtained 200 acres (80 hectares) of land and became the first settler on the site of Aylmer. During the 1830s a general store was opened and village lots sold. Originally called Troy, in 1835 it was renamed Aylmer after Lord Aylmer, then Governor-in-Chief of British North America. By 1851 local enterprises included sawmills and flour-mills powered by water from Catfish Creek. Aided by easy access to Lake Erie, Aylmer became by the mid-1860s the marketing centre for a rich agricultural and timber producing area. Benefiting greatly from the construction of the 230 km (150 mile) Canada Air Line Railway from Glencoe to Fort Erie, Aylmer bec ...
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Atwood, Ontario
Atwood is a small town located in Perth County, Ontario, Canada. Nearby centres include Listowel Listowel ( ; , ) is a heritage market town in County Kerry, Ireland. It is on the River Feale, from the county town, Tralee. The town of Listowel had a population of 4,794 according to the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census, the third large ... and Elmira. Atwood is located on Highway 23 between Perth Line 75 (formerly 8th Concession) and Perth Line 72. The population is between 500 and 1000 inhabitants. There are 2 churches in Atwood, The Atwood United Church and Atwood Presbyterian Church, as well as the Elma Township Cemetery. The Atwood/Coghlin Airport is located here. History The settlement dates back to 1854 when it was originally named “Elma Centre”. When the railway came through in 1876, the name was changed to “Newry Station”. The current name, Atwood, was suggested in 1883 by William Dunn after his niece Eliza Gray, of Detroit, had noticed that the n ...
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Arthur, Ontario
Arthur (population 2,628) is a community located just north of Ontario Highway 6, Highway 6 and Wellington County Road 109, Wellington Road 109 in the township (Canada), township of Wellington North, Ontario, Canada. Formerly an independent village, Arthur was amalgamated into Wellington North on January 1, 1999. History The village was named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Settlers began arriving in 1840. The area was first surveyed in 1841 by John McDonald and then officially in 1846 by D.B. Papineau. During the first survey in 1841, the population of Arthur was 22 people. Over the next 15 years, this number rose to 400, and by 1900, the population had risen to just over 1500. The saw and grist mills on the Conestogo River encouraged people to settle here. In 1851, a post office, church and school were organized. Development increased in 1872 when the train line of the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway reached the village, which was incorporated in that year. Th ...
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Arkona, Ontario
Arkona is a community located in the municipality of Lambton Shores in southwestern Ontario Southwestern Ontario (census population 2,796,367 in 2021) is a secondary region of Southern Ontario in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. It occupies most of the Ontario Peninsula, bounded by Lake Huron (includ ... near the Lambton–Middlesex County, Ontario, Middlesex county line, situated beside the Ausable River (Lake Huron), Ausable River, on Highway 79 (Ontario), Former Kings Highway 79 (now Lambton County Road 79), Arkona is roughly halfway between Thedford, Ontario, Thedford, and Watford, Ontario, Watford. History Prehistory The site of the village is at the base of the Wyoming Moraine which formed along the shores of ancient Lake Arkona during the retreat of the Wisconsin Glacier some 16,000 years ago. Rich deposits of fossils are revealed at nearby Hungry Hollow. Evidence of early human habitation exists at the site of paleo-Indian, Pa ...
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Amherstburg, Ontario
Amherstburg is a town near the mouth of the Detroit River in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. In 1796, Fort Malden was established here, stimulating growth in the settlement. The fort has been designated as a National Historic Site. The town is approximately south of the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan, facing Wyandotte, Grosse Ile Township, Brownstown Charter Township, Trenton, and Gibraltar, Michigan. It is part of the Windsor census metropolitan area. Communities Besides the town proper of Amherstburg, the town of Amherstburg comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including the following communities: * Former Anderdon Township: – Edgewater Beach, McGregor (partially), River Canard (partially); ''Golfview'', ''Kingsbridge'', ''Pointe West''; ''Auld'', ''Delisle's Corners'' (partially), ''Loiselleville'', ''Paquette Corners'' (partially), ''Rivière-Aux-Canards'', ''Southwick'', ''Splitlog'' * Former Malden Township: – ''Amherstburg'', Amherst Point, B ...
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