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The first railway to arrive in Lindsay was the Port Hope, Lindsay & Beaverton Railway (PHL&B), originally chartered in 1846 as the Peterborough & Port Hope Railway. The first train arrived at the St. Paul and King Streets station (Lindsay’s first) on the east side of the Scugog River on October 16, 1857.
The Lindsay Post was a newspaper in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada, that was established as The Canadian Post in 1857 in Beaverton before being moved to Lindsay in 1861. Before it ceased publishing in 2013, it was a twice-weekly, broadsheet community newspaper that was part of Sun Media and Quebecor, Canada's largest newspaper publisher.
The Lindsay, Bobcaygeon & Pontypool Railway (LB&P) was a short-line railway in Ontario, Canada. It was originally designed to serve sawmills in Bobcaygeon , running southward to the Ontario and Quebec Railway at Burketon, near Pontypool .
Franchise history; pre-1989: Lindsay Muskies: 1989-94: Lindsay Bears: 1994-Present: ... The Lindsay Muskies are a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Lindsay, Ontario ...
The history of Victoria County began with the passing of the Constitutional Act in 1791, dividing Canada into two provinces: ... Lindsay, Ontario 16,696 [51] 17,638 [51]
The Victoria Railway was a 55.52-mile (89.35 km) long [1] Canadian railway that operated in Central Ontario.Construction under Chief Engineer James Ross began in 1874 from Lindsay, Ontario, with authority to build through Victoria County to Haliburton, Ontario, to which it opened on November 24, 1878 ().
It was built to connect local grain and logging interests with the railway mainlines on the shores of Lake Ontario. It was later extended northeast to Lindsay, becoming the Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway (WPP&L). The railway was never very successful, as the original engineering was considered sub-par and reliability was poor from the ...
He served as a councillor in Lindsay for three years, and as Mayor for six. As Mayor, he led the twinning of the Town of Lindsay with Nayoro, Hokkaido, and Japan in 1969. [1] Eakins was also a governor of Fleming College, and a member of the Royal Canadian Legion. He also served as Warden of Victoria County, Ontario.