Morpeth is a community in

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, Canada. It is located between Blenheim and St. Thomas on

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History

The community is named after Lord Morpeth, who was once a guest of Col. Thomas Talbot. Morpeth was an area of notable commerce in the 1880s. When the railroad went through, it instead went through nearby Ridgetown, Ontario, which eventually grew faster than Morpeth. Archibald Lampman, one of Canada's

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, and "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English", was born in Morpeth in 1861.Michael Gnarowski,
Lampman, Archibald
" ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Hurtig, 1988), 1169. The ''

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'' says: "The Morpeth that Lampman knew was a small town set in the rolling farm country of what is now western Ontario, not far from the shores of Lake Erie. The little red church just east of the town, on the Talbot Road, was his father’s charge."Lampman, Archibald
" Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011. St. John's Anglican Church was completed in 1878, by architect Gordon W. Lloyd. In 2010, it was added to the Municipal Heritage Register due to its "cultural value or interest" to Chatham-Kent; its heritage status was removed in 2021.

Attractions

Attractions include Greenview Park and Zoo, Rondeau Shores Trailer Park, and

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. Morpeth United Church, built in 1877, was converted into an

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rental unit.

References

External links

Chatham-Kent website
{{authority control Communities in Chatham-Kent Populated places on Lake Erie in Canada