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Beaverton was first settled in 1822. It was called Calder's Mills (after an early miller Duncan Miller and Alexander Calder), Mill Town and Milton until it was renamed Beaverton when the post office was opened in 1835. By 1869, Beaverton was a village with a population of 700 in the Township of Thorah Township in Ontario County.
The Township was incorporated in 1850. The Village of Beaverton, originally part of the township, was incorporated as a separate municipality in 1884. Part of the Trent–Severn Waterway was constructed through the northern portion of the Township and opened in 1907.
turn-of-the-20th-century period house, owned by Ontario Heritage Trust, operated in the summer by the Lake of the Woods Historical Society, Mattawa Museum: Mattawa: Nipissing District: Northeastern: Local history: operated by the Mattawa and District Historical Society: McCrae House: Guelph: Wellington County: Southwestern: Historic house
The exhibit examines where did members of the flourishing Harmony Society go after the arrival of Count Leon and the ensuing secession of a third of the Society? History Weekend Hours: 10 a.m. to ...
The Annual General Meeting of the Ontario Historical Society, held June 2, 1914 in Ottawa, Canada. The Ontario Historical Society, originally called the Pioneer and Historical Association of Ontario, [2] was established on September 4, 1888 largely through the efforts of Reverend Henry Scadding. It initially operated as a federation of local ...
Problems with ice continued to be a serious concern throughout the railway's history. A series of companies took over operations of the C&PRy, including a lease to the shareholders of the Port Hope, Lindsay & Beaverton Railway, who ran a competing line only a few miles away. The new operators surreptitiously sabotaged the bridge, causing it to ...
Beaverton's historic commercial core remains largely intact as a pedestrian-oriented business district constructed along the street pattern from the city's earliest plats. Significant buildings include a handful from the city's first decades (1868–1920) and a larger number from the period of profound transformation between the world wars ...
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