Caledon Village is an
unincorporated community
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located within the largely-rural
Town of Caledon in
Ontario
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,
Canada
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. It has a population of 1 909 people.
Description
Caledon Village is a largely-rural community in the centre of Caledon, situated at the intersection of
Highway 10
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(
Hurontario Street
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) and Charleston Sideroad (
Peel Road 24; and formerly
Highway 24 west of Highway 10). There are
quarries
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for the extraction of salt, gravel, and sand around the village. The large quarries serve as a large portion of the Caledon economy and stretch to the
Forks of the Credit and the hamlet of Cataract.
History
The community was first established in the 1820s by Irish and Scottish emigrants of the Stubbs, Rayburn, and Bell families. The village was formerly known as Raeburn's Corners, Charlestown, Charleston, and (simply) Caledon (although the
former township in which the community had been located was always named "Caledon"). The area flourished with industries like sawmills and gristmills, powered by the nearby
Credit River
The Credit River is a river in southern Ontario, which flows from headwaters above the Niagara Escarpment near Orangeville and Caledon East to empty into Lake Ontario at Port Credit, Mississauga. It drains an area of approximately . The total l ...
. The main form of economic activity ties to agriculture and poultry.
For most of its history, Caledon Village was a
hamlet
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(rather than an actual
village
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), with the majority of the growth in the community having occurred in modern times. Most of the population now lives in
suburban
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-style developments. There are ongoing small residential and industrial development plans around the village.
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References
Neighbourhoods in Caledon, Ontario