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The Nation (La Nation in French) is a municipality in Eastern Ontario, located within Canada's National Capital Region, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell. Formed in 1998, the municipality consists of the former townships of Caledonia, Cambridge and South Plantagenet, as well as the Village of St. Isidore.
Caledonia is a community located on the Grand River in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada. It had a population of 12,179 [ 1 ] as of the 2021 Canadian Census . Caledonia is within Ward 3 of Haldimand County.
When Caledonia was incorporated as a village in 1853, talks of a town hall quickly began. The first official mention of a town hall was made on February 28, 1854. John Turner [4] of Brantford, Ontario was asked to construct plans for a 30 feet (9.1 m) x 50 feet (15 m), 2 storey brick building with a stone basement. He did all of this for a fee ...
This is a list of placenames in Scotland that have been applied to parts of Canada by Scottish emigrants or explorers.. For Nova Scotian names in Scottish Gaelic (not necessarily the same as the English versions) see Canadian communities with Scottish Gaelic speakers and Scottish Gaelic placenames in Canada
Caledonia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə /; Latin: Calēdonia [kaleːˈdonia]) was the Latin name used by the Roman Empire to refer to the part of Scotland that lies north of the River Forth, which includes most of the land area of Scotland. [1] Today, it is used as a romantic or poetic name for all of Scotland. [2]
The Grand River land dispute, also known as the Caledonia land dispute, is an ongoing dispute between the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Government of Canada.It is focused on land along the length of the Grand River in Ontario known as the Haldimand Tract, a 385,000-hectare (950,000-acre) tract that was granted to Indigenous allies of the British Crown in 1784 to make up for ...
Additionally, the clay near the surface expands and contracts, due to variations in moisture and in temperature, which leads to further erosion. From 1973 to 2009 the maximum degradation of the badlands site was found to be up to 3.2 metres and the average annual rates of denudation vary between 0.7 and 2.5 centimetres per year across the site. [7]
Caledon (/ ˈ k æ l ə d ə n /; 2021 population 76,581) is a town in the Regional Municipality of Peel in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.The name comes from a shortened form of Caledonia, the Roman name for what is now Scotland. [6]