Topic summary
Intentional communities
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Intentional community.
Canada
Intentional communities were established in Canada as early as the first part of the nineteenth century, and some are in operation in Canada at the present time. An Ontario Quaker sect, The Children of Peace, formed a utopian farm settlement at the community of Hope (now Sharon) in East Gwillimbury, York Region, which operated from 1812 to 1889. Other utopian communities were established at Maxwell near Sarnia (an Owenite settlement said to be Canada's first commune) and in BC at Holberg (a Owenite settlement founded in 1829), Ruskin, and Sointula on Malcolm Island (a well-known historical Canadian utopian settlement).