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St. Jacobs is an unincorporated suburban community in the township of Woolwich in Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [1] It is located north of the city of Waterloo . It is a popular location for tourism, [ 2 ] due to its quaint appearance, retail focus, and Mennonite heritage.
The bridge is the only remaining covered bridge in Ontario and the second oldest surviving bridge in the Region of Waterloo. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] (In 2015, the total number of surviving covered bridges in Canada was below 200.) [ 3 ] John Bear, who had previously built barns, built the bridge in 1880–1881, mostly of oak and white pine.
This is a list of National Historic Sites (French: Lieux historiques nationaux) in the province of Ontario. As of July 2021, there were 274 sites designated in Ontario, [1] 39 of which are administered by Parks Canada (identified below and on the cluster pages listed below by the beaver icon ). Of all provinces and territories, Ontario has the ...
This list of historic places in the province of Ontario contains heritage sites listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP), all of which are designated as historic places either locally, provincially, territorially, nationally, or by more than one level of government.
By the early 1850s, other Mennonites from Pennsylvania began arriving to this part of Waterloo County, settling in nearby St. Jacobs and also on farms surrounding West Montrose. They were the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch. The word "Dutch" does not refer to the Netherlands but is a misnomer for Deitsch or Deutsch (German).
The location of many of these roads is in the Canadian Shield, among the most rugged terrain in Ontario. The soil is generally thin and unsuitable for the agricultural development that these roads were built to spur. Most of the colonization roads are not provincially maintained highways. Instead, they follow county roads and local town ...
Thornhill, Ontario: St. Andrew's Anglican Church [230] 1825 (founded in 1794) Grimsby, Ontario: St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church [231] 1825: Niagara Falls, Ontario: St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church [232] 1825: Picton: Timothy Street House: 1825: Mississauga (Streetsville) Walbridge House: 1825: Newcastle: St. George Anglican Cathedral ...
The history of Ontario covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands that make up present-day Ontario, the most populous province of Canada as of the early 21st century have been inhabited for millennia by groups of Aboriginal people, with French and British exploration and colonization commencing in the 17th century.