Strange is an unincorporated community west of King City in King Township,

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, Canada. It is directly north of Laskay to the west of

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, and is a sparsely populated agricultural area. Strange was founded as ''Williamstown'' in 1841, founded by William Wells who opened a general store. He abandoned his plans to expand the community into a town in 1853 when the Toronto, Simcoe & Lake Huron railway was built through the community of Springhill (now King City) instead of Williamstown. In 1854, the community's first post office closed, but another opened on 1 March 1880 through the efforts of

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, for whom the post office and the community were renamed. Today, only a few residential buildings remain, and only the Presbyterian Church and two graveyards provide links to its past.

Geology

The Strange Till Plain is a flat ground

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with underlying

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till. It was formed by the Ontario ice lobe during the Port Huron Stadial. It is believed that this

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plain exhibits the original surface; very little

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or surface

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is observable throughout its 3 square kilometre range. This Till plain is located between and within the ''Albion'' and ''Uxbridge'' wedges of the

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, and is a constituent part of that moraine.

References

Government of Ontario - Ministry of Natural Resources - Natural Areas Report: STRANGE TILL PLAIN
Communities in King, Ontario {{GoldenHorseshoe-geo-stub