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In 1816, he was hired by William Dickson to manage his lands in Dumfries Township in Upper Canada. Shade operated a general store, a mill and a distillery in the area. The settlement that developed on the Grand River, originally known as Shade's Mills and later became Galt (now part of Cambridge, Ontario).
When Waterloo County was created, ... Reminiscences of the early history of Galt and the settlement of Dumfries, in the Province of Ontario, J Young (1880)
At about the same time Dumfries Township was divided, the City of Galt was extracted from it as an autonomous municipality within the new Waterloo County. Though the two municipalities (Galt and North Dumfries) were now technically separated from one another, their histories are tightly interwoven as the township nearly envelopes what was then ...
Cambridge was formed in 1973 by the amalgamation of Galt, Preston, Hespeler, the settlement of Blair, North Dumfries, as well as east and west Galt. [4] The former Galt covers the largest portion of Cambridge, making up the southern half of the city, while Preston and Blair cover the western side.
In 1864, Galt was clearly at the top of the county's urban hierarchy, with 23% of all functional units, while Berlin had only 14%. Waterloo, Preston, Ayr, and New Hamburg all followed with between 6% and 10% each; no other community in the county had more than 3.41% of the county's functional units.
Galt was an independent city in Waterloo County, Ontario until 1973 when amalgamation created the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. At that time, Galt was amalgamated into the new city of Cambridge. The Region handles many services, including Police, waste management, community health, transit, recreation, planning, roads and social services. [31]
Reminiscences of the Early History of Galt and the Settlement of Dumfries in the Province of Ontario. Toronto: Hunter, Rose and Company. — (1902). Public Men and Public Life in Canada. Toronto: William Briggs.
Dumfries Township had already been divided into North Dumfries and South Dumfries, and now these were further divided from each other, with North Dumfries (including Galt, which separated from the township in 1857) becoming a part of Waterloo County, putting it under the jurisdiction of a county governed from Berlin.